Byzantine Blackwood convention notrump has been made, a bid of five notrump asks for additional high card "features". A king or doubleton king-queen not already shown in response to four notrump counts as one feature; a guarded king-queen combination not already shown count as two features. The responses are: 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
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