Carding (Signaling) - A defensive lead and discarding agreement
used by defenders to provide signals, including attitude, count, suit
preference and useful characteristics of one's holdings: Standard Attitude
1. |
Attitude - An signal
to encourage/discourage continuation of partner's suit lead based on the
rank of the card played, typically
Standard Attitude.
Also see
Upside Down Count and
Attitude (UDCA) and Smith Echo |
2. |
Suit Preference - A signal
indicating partiality of a certain suit based on the rank of the card
played. See Odd-Even,
Lavinthal,
Standard Attitude,
Upside Down Count and
Attitude (UDCA), Trump Suit
Preference, and obvious
suit preference |
3. |
Count - A signal showing
the parity of a given suit as either an even or odd holding. See
Standard Count,
Upside Down Count and
Attitude (UDCA) |
4. |
Leads - Leads
showing a sequence, such as leading the top of touching honors, other
Opening Leads,
fourth best or
third and fifth leads,
Journalist Leads, bottom of
something and top of nothing,
coded 9 and 10
(Jack denies, 10 implies),
obvious suit preference, and Middle
Up Down (MUD). |
Also see books on
Leads,
Signals
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