A little research shows that tonsillectomies were a rite of passage 60 years ago, but now it's not considered such a good idea to routinely remove them. It turns out they are the body's First Responders, triggering the entire immune system to get to work.
Tonsillectomies were performed THREE MILLENIA AGO! And can you imagine what they were like without anesthesia? Good heavens! Now they're done with just a little twilight sleep, and cold-cauterized.
Through the ages, tonsillectomies were thought to cure a wide variety of ills, including (but not limited to) bed-wetting, asthma and convulsions.
Some things we do routinely, unlike removing tonsils, ARE a good idea, and in bridge, transfers are among them.
Today and Monday we are going to work with transfers (for the majors). The purpose of transfers is to force the Big Hand to name the suit first. (This BTW is also why we play Stayman.) It's worth about a half-trick each time we can have the opening lead coming INTO the big hand.
When we as responder hold a five card or longer major, we name the suit UNDER the one we want Pard to bid. Want Hearts? Bid Diamonds. Want Spades? Bid Hearts. Point count is from zero to infinity and beyond.
Monday we will tackle our rebids. Today will be comparatively easy.
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