Blackwood convention when, after hearing his partner's response, the player who bid 4NT wants to stop in 5NT — as this is a forcing bid asking for Kings. A common agreement is that the first non-suit asks responder to bid 5NT. Whenever the first non-suit is a "queen ask", then the next non-suit asks to bid 5NT. This has to be planned in advance as if there is no such space partners have to bid a usually unmakeable slam contract. Blackwood convention In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a popular bidding convention that was developed by Easley
F. E. Compton F. E. Compton Frank Elbert Compton (August 7, 1874 – May 13, 1950) was a publisher of encyclopedias and other reference works, most notably "Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia" from 1922, later named "Compton's Encyclopedia". Compton graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and from 1894 he was an associate of publisher Chandler Beach. Compton became the general manager of "C. B. Beach & Company" in 1905. He took over the firm when Beach retired in 1907, and the company name later changed to "F. E. Compton & Co.". Compton spent his career in Chicago and he died in La Jolla, California. "The