The bidding system-SAYC

After introducing some skills of playing bridge, I want to talk about the bidding system. Bidding plays an important role in bridge, and good bidding system can let you find a good contract to make. Today, I will introduce a useful bidding system which can teach you how to bid.

It is called SAYC(Standard American Yellow Card), which is also called nature bidding system because it is very nature. This is the most common system in the world because it is very easy to understand and to learn. The idea in this system is very simple: just bid the suit you have. The more cards of the trump suit you have, the more easily you can make the contracts. However, sometimes we use "alert(特約)" to present some different meanings. It means the bid doesn't present that you have the suit. For instance, in SAYC, if you open(開叫) 2 club doesn't mean you have many clubs, but means you have more than 22 HCPs.

What is HCP? The most valuable card is A, and then K, Q, J, so we determine your cards' value by counting HCP, high card points. A is four points; K is three points; Q is two points, and J is one point. The more HCP you have, the more valuable your cards are.

Here are two links. One is talking about the details of SAYC. The other is a video talking about how and why to learn SAYC.

https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/sayc.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYHMw01vi8Q