Sentence examples for negative doubles from inspiring English sources

His titles include "Five Card Major," "Negative Doubles," "Tactical Bidding," "Weak Two Bids" and "Winning Swiss Team Tactics".

They developed the Roth-Stone system, which featured, inter alia, very sound opening bids in the first two positions, five-card majors with a one-no-trump response forcing for one round, a single major-suit raise showing game-invitational values, weak-jump-shift responses and negative doubles.

A negative double is dangerous without a fourth heart.

(He would have made a negative double with four).

South Wbridge5, with nowhere to go, passed, converting the negative double into a penalty double.

West's negative double promised at least one four-card major.

The higher a negative double is made, the fuzzier its definition.

The responder made a negative double, and the North player leapt to six spades.

But partner won't have four spades, because he didn't make a negative double.

After Jill Levin (West) overcalled one spade, Daniela von Arnim (North) made a negative double.

Zia (West) made a negative double of South's two-club overcall.