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.

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IX INFORMATORY DOUBLES..... 66
Basic Facts to Consider-Doubling Slamr Signals
-Rules for Informatory Doubles-Subsequent
Doubles-Repeating a Double-Doubling Each
of Two Suits-Assisting Doubles.
X RESPONSES TO INFORMATORY
DOUBLES..... 87
General Principles Governing Doubles - Responses to No-Trump Doubles —The Business
Pass-Responses to Subsequent Doubles-Voluntary Responses.
XI OVERCALLING DOUBLES..... 99
Redoubling-The Informatory Pass.
XII ASSISTING PARTNER..... I04
Rule of Five-Contracting Strategy-Rectifying
Dummy's Trump Values.
XIII REBIDDING......... I II
Unassisted Rebids.
XIV BUSINESS DOUBLES...... I17
Overcalling Partner's Double-Relative Values
of Games and Penalties-Overbidding to Save
Slams-Sure Tricks Shown'by Partner's Bids.
XV GOULASHES...126
Comments on Goulash Laws-Goulash Bidding
-The Double Take-Out.
THE INTERLUDE..... I34
XVI AVERAGES AND PROBABILITIES.. 135
Card Distributions.
XVII LAWS OF SYMMETRY.. 38
Glossary of Symmetry-Limits of SymmetryPractical Results.