Byzantine Blackwood convention Byzantine Blackwood convention Byzantine Blackwood is a bidding in the game of bridge. Devised by Jack Marx, it is a complex version of the (by which a four notrump (4NT) asks about 's holdings). Its premise is that both aces and kings may safely be shown in response to a Blackwood-type 4NT enquiry; provided that such kings are in well-defined "key" or "half-key" suits, there being no more than two such suits. The name was chosen to express the idea that Byzantine Blackwood is a development from Roman Blackwood, by analogy with the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Empire; rather
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