Blackwood convention Blackwood convention In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a popular bidding convention that was developed by Easley Blackwood. It is used to explore the partnership's possession of aces, kings and in some variants, the queen of trumps, to judge more precisely whether slam is likely to be a good contract. Two versions of Blackwood are common: "standard" Blackwood, developed by Easley in 1933, and "Roman Key Card" Blackwood ("RKC" or "RKCB"), named for the Italian team which invented it. Standard Blackwood enables one partner to count partnership aces and kings in general. Key card variants
Richard Blackwood "suggestible". Blackwood also warned watching parents that exposure to the fumes would make their children "smell like hammers". Blackwood had acting appearances in "Holby City" in 2003 and played the title character in the 2002 television series "Ed Stone Is Dead". During May 2003, Blackwood appeared in Channel 5's "Celebrity Detox Camp", which involved him being filmed "pumping 18 litres of coffee solution through his anus into [his] stomach". In March 2007, he acted in the Bollywood smash-hit film "Don't Stop Dreaming". In 2005, Blackwood appeared in "Princes of Comedii" DVD release. Blackwood was a presenter for the London radio