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Article / Updated 09-02-2016
You earn a certain number of points for each trick you take beyond the sixth one. The first six tricks, which are unspoken during the bidding, do not count in the scoring of any contract. When a major suit (hearts or spades) winds up as the trump suit, each trick taken after the first six is worth 30 points. When a minor suit (clubs or diamonds) winds up as the trump suit, each trick taken after the first six is worth 20 points.
Article / Updated 08-04-2021
In Bridge, you bid a negative double when you want to tell the opener, your partner, about four- or five-card length in the unbid major(s). You use this bid when, for one reason or another, you can’t just bid the major. Only the responder can make a negative double (but he just says the one word, “Double”) after partner opens the bidding and an intervening overcall takes place.