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Roman Keycard Blackwood - An adaptation to the Blackwood slam convention, considering the trump King, Queen, and other attributes. This convention is identical to 1430 Blackwood excepting the first two responses are reversed (14 - 30 as opposed to 03 - 14). 1430 Roman Keycard Blackwood, Part 1 - Slam Bidding. This text will be replaced.
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Roman Key Card Blackwood (Key Card, RKC, RKCB, 0314, 1430) is a variation of the Blackwood convention. It is used when the partnership has agreed to a trump suit and is interested in slam. A 4NT bid asks partner how many "key cards" he holds. A key card is any ace or the trump suit king.
Blackwood is the most well-recognized convention for slam bidding. When a player is interested in slam but afraid of missing two aces, and hence two tricks, he can bid 4NT to ask his partner how many aces he holds. The responses to 4NT are: All of the rebids made by the Blackwood bidder are natural, with the exception of 5NT.
Roman Key Card Blackwood B lackwood, the ace-asking convention, was developed early in the history of contract bridge as an aid to slam bidding. Despite its frequent misuse, it became a popular treatment because of its inherent simplicity. A bid of 4NT (in most constructive auctions) asks partner to reveal how many
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card when using Roman-Key-Card (0314) responses, the Partnership is now committed to a doomed unmakeable 6C contract. So as to eliminate this potential problem, these two conventions are used as an alternative to the standard Roman Key-Card Blackwood Convention. The “Kickback” Convention is used
RKCB is used after Opener and Responder have agreed on a trump suit. There are two ways of responding to RKCB 0314 or 1430 and the difference between them is that 5C and 5D responses are inverted. 5C – Shows 0 or 3 Key Cards playing 0314 whereas playing 1430 it shows 1 or 4 Key Cards.
