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
F-A-E Sonata in 1906, nearly ten years after Brahms's death. Whether Dietrich made any further use of his sonata-allegro is not known. The complete sonata was first published in 1935. All three composers also wrote violin concerti for Joachim. Schumann's was completed on 3 October 1853, just before the "F-A-E Sonata" was begun. Joachim never performed it, unlike the concertos of Brahms and Dietrich. Steven Isserlis, the English cellist and Schumann aficionado, has transcribed the "F-A-E Sonata" for cello and piano. F-A-E Sonata The F-A-E Sonata, a four-movement work for violin and piano, is a collaborative musical work by three composers: Robert