Correct contract bridge / by E.V. Shepard ; including the official Laws of contract bridge adopted by the Whist Club, New York, and by all the leading clubs in America.

178 CORRECT CONTRACT BRIDGE

counts 8Y4 tricks at hearts and as his partner has
shown at least 4 tricks by his assist of both suits,
Z's final declaration of 6-Hearts could not be criticized. By discarding one of dummy's spades on a
good club, and ruffing two spades, Z just fulfilled his
contract.
SHOWING A SUIT
Provided one partner or the other has first given
the slam signal, so that the meaning of a subsequent
declaration cannot be mistaken as offering a shift of
declaration, an unnecessarily high bid of a side suit
shows absence of losing cards in that suit. If you
first assist your partner's opening bid of two, he cannot mistake a later unnecessarily high bid of your
side suit for anything besides showing no losers of
that suit. If your partner at once aids your opening bid of two, or in case your partner jumps your
opening bid of one, to three, your subsequent needlessly high bid of another suit must be read as showing that you have no losers of that suit.
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