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Bridge Club's basic "approach" to bidding has been based Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC), the most common beginner's system in the United States. The major change, however, to the system as bid in the club from 2002 to 2005, was that strong responses were made as jump-shifts. This made it very obvious when a game hand was held, but harder to bid slam. Club members decided this was desirable, as slam was rarer and harder to play, while game was important not to miss.
In 2004, to support the [[Free University]] class on beginner's bridge that he was teaching with Matthew Spencer, [[Jonathan Landsman]] attempted the codify the opening and first-round response bids in a flow-chart -like "cheat sheet": [[Image:Bridge_Club_Cheat_Sheet.pdf|cheat sheet]]."
In 2008, Jonathan made a similar sheet to express something closer to SAYC, while he was teaching beginning students at Cornell: [[Image:Bridgeclub08cheatsheet.pdf]]
==See also==
* Standard American Yellow Card as described on [http://www.prairienet.org/bridge/basics.htm prairienet]