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 "CTRL ALT DEL" by Marti Ronemus

It was meant to be a secret, shared only among IBM programmers developing the first personal computers. They had to reboot the entire system every time they ran into a glitch... and that happened a LOT in the beginning.

It was costing so much wasted time that David Bradley developed a little shortcut that would reset the computer avoiding a lot of stuff we don't want to know about. He set it up that if CTRL ALT DEL were hit at the same time... you could avoid the Microsoft "Blue Screen of Death." Remember that?

So useful was this secret it was passed mouth to mouth, friend to friend. I just used it about 20 minutes ago. Thank you, David!

And now to some not-so-secret bidding.

Question 1

  Your Hand
♠ 8 4
♥ A K 8 7 6 5
♦ 9
♣ A K 10 9 		 
Q: 1 - South:
SouthWestNorthEast
--1 No-trumpp
2♦**p2♥p
?

**Transfer to Hearts

 Your choice:
A: 3♣: This hand is just too nice to go directly to 4♥. We can't use Gerber or Blackwood because we don't have first- or second-round control of all four suits. SO! Let's name a new suit, showing our two-suiter. It's forcing and we may find a lovely slam.

Your result so far:
Open Question

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Question 2

  Your Hand
♠ K Q 7
♥ A 7 6 3 2
♦ 7
♣ 5 4 3 2 		 
Q: 2 - South:
SouthWestNorthEast
--1♦p
1♥p1♠p
?


 Your choice:
A: 2♠: We hate supporting what is likely to be a four-card suit, but our choices are limited. We certainly can't rebid those wretched Hearts (for more reasons than one), we can't bid No-trump because of our shape. Bidding Clubs certainly isn't an option. That leaves us with raising Pard's Spades. If it makes you nervous, tuck one of those Clubs in with them.

Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 3

  Your Hand
♠ Q 7
♥ 9 7 6 3 2
♦ A Q
♣ 5 4 3 2 		 
Q: 3 - South:
SouthWestNorthEast
--1♦p
1♥p1♠p
?


 Your choice:
A: 1 No-trump: Dreadful, but what other choice do we have. We should have a stopper in the fourth suit (Clubs) to bid No-trump, but we are in a bad spot.

Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 4

  Your Hand
♠ A K 10
♥ 9 8 6 5 4
♦ 7 3
♣ A Q J 		 
Q: 4 - South:
SouthWestNorthEast
--1♦p
1♥p2♥p
?


 Your choice:
A: 3 No-trump: We've got game for sure, but where? Our Hearts are so ratty we're going to pretend there are only four of them. With Pard bidding Diamonds, and our other fab cards in the black suits, we like this better than 4♥.

Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 5

  Your Hand
♠ K Q 9 8 7
♥ A J 7
♦ 7 6
♣ 6 5 4 		 
Q: 5 - South:
SouthWestNorthEast
--1♥p
1♠p3♣p
?


 Your choice:
A: 3♥: Pard has jump-shifted, so he forces us to go to game. With such a good hand, we need to investigate slam. 3♥ may be only a preference, but we will bid again later to show our strength and real fit.
Take also credit if you bid 4♥ to show a real fit.

And now, let's tackle our hand.

Your result so far:
Open Question

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