THE MODERN LOSING TRICK COUNT

The crux of bridge is taking tricks. Briç'in püf noktası löve saymadan geçer.Counting points is not an end in itself.Puanları saymakla iş bitmez. It is a means of measuring the trick-taking potential of the partnership hands.Puan sayma ortaklığın alabileceği löveleri saymaya yarayan bir araçtır. To say that 25-26 points is worth a shot at 3NT is to say that with 25-26 points, you are more likely to win 9 tricks in no trumps than to fail. Bid a small slam with 33 points means only that with 33 points, you will win 12 tricks more than half the time. Tricks, tricks, tricks. The game revolves around tricks.Oyun löveler etrafında döner.
If there were a better means of measuring tricks than the point count, we would ali be using it. Yet there are hands vvhere the trick potential is obvious. For example, what is this hand worth? Örnek ; Bu elin değeri nedir ?

* AKQ9876532
Z> A
O 3
* 7
To think of this as a 13-point hand is a blind spot.( Kör nokta, anlaşılmayan nokta) It is an 11-trick hand with spades as trumps.

The real test is to discover whether partner has an ace or both aces to cover your losers. The right 8 points (two aces) would give you a grand slam with only 21 high card points. The wrong 12 points (K-Q-J in each minör) leaves you stili with just 11 tricks.
The Losing Trick Count is a way of measuring the trick-taking potential of a trump contract vvithout the need to count points. The LTC enables you to calculate the playing-strength, the tricks, in your own hand and to estimate accurately the useful tricks in partner's hand. Put these two fıgures together and you have the trick-taking capacity of the two hands. Used correctly as recommended, the LTC is a vastly superior valuation technique for accurate bidding.
In order for the LTC to work accurately, you need a sound trump fit (at least eight trumps together).
• The LTC does not operate for no trump contracts.
9 The LTC does not operate on misfit hands.

LTC Losing Trick Count ya da Türkçe karşılığı ile Kayıp el sayma Briç'te başarı için uygulanması gereken modern bir yöntemdir.