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Show Peter Explains Penalties, Honors and Slam Scoring Novice and Nonexpert bridge. Hand of the week: East has promised Hi-17-18 high card points and no void, singleton or worth -less doubleton suit. West adds his 9 HCP to East's promised minimum of 1 fi and discovers the contract con-tract if one point short of 3 NT. However. East may hold 17 or 18 which would put the deal in the game zone. West's 2 NT invites East to pass with Hi. go with 17 or 18. NORTH J 95 C .11073 O A 96 .1107 WEST EAST 62 A78 C KQ4 O A962 O J742 O KQX3 K813 A6 SOUTH KQK) 13 V 85 0 105 Q952 Both vulnerable. West deals and passes, as does North. I'.ast opens bidding with one NT, South passes. West bids 2 NT and East raises to 3 NT. Spade K is led. ( Declarer takes added precaution and holds up tak ing his Spade ace I until the third spade is I led. She cannot know which opponent holds the . Diamond ace and only hopes the opponent who wins the Diamond ace will hold no more spades. The hold-up play works. I' e t e r savs: Bridge movie must be I a girt:: I Basic: Scoring-Pen -I alilies. There is always a penally for failing to make a conl ract. Undoubled, not vulnerable vul-nerable - 5(1 pis. per I trick. I Undoubled. vulnerable I - Hill pis. per trick. Doubled, not vulner able - 100 pts for first trick. 200 points for each additional trick. Redoubled - twice the doubled value. There is a 50 point bonus for making a doubled dou-bled or redoubled contract. con-tract. The bonus is never increased by any doubling dou-bling or vulnerability. Honors. For just being be-ing lucky and getting high ranking cards, called Honors, in one hand, you receive a bonus. At a trump suit the five highest high-est honors are the honors. hon-ors. At not rump the four aces are the honors. All Honors (AKQ.I10) at a trump suit (or the 4 aces at not rump) -150 points. It is customary cus-tomary to announce the honors at the end of the hand by saying "I have 10(1 honors" or "Give me 150 honors". The bonus for honors is scored whether or not the contract is made, regardless re-gardless of double, redouble re-double and vulnerability . 100 or 150 honors are claimed by any person holding honors in the trump suit, be it declarer, de-clarer, partner or opponent. op-ponent. Slam Scoring. There are special bonuses for bidding and making 12 tricks (small slam) or for all 13 tricks (grand slam). Small slam, not vulnerable vul-nerable - 500 points. Small slam, vulnerable vulner-able - 750 points. Grand slam, not vulnerable vul-nerable - 1001) points. Grand slam, vulnerable vulner-able - 1 501) points. You get nothing for making 1 2 tricks if you have bid a grand slam! Unfinished game or rubber. If the players cannot finish a rubber, score 3110 points for a game and 51) points for a part score in an unfinished un-finished game. Next week: Elhics, El -iquelle, Laws. |