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Message: [QUOTE="chj001, post: 2384837, member: 8206"] 15. First of all, the official name of the convention is Roman Keycard Blackwood. After the bidding has established the likely trump suit, a player interested in slam will bid 4NT, asking for the number of "keycards" held by his partner. There are basically 2 varieties, 3014 (somewhat described by Bigboote) and 1430 (used by most of the players I know.) There are 5 "keycards," the 4 aces and the king of trump. Bigboote, if you're playing with 5 aces, you need to change decks. 5 clubs shows 1 or 4 keycards (or 3 or 0 in the 3014 variety). 5 diamonds shows 3 or 0 keycards (or 1 or 4 in the 3014 variety). The Queen of trump is NOT a keycard, but the possession or non-possession of the queen of trump can be shown when showing 2 keycards. 5 hearts shows 2 keycards without the queen of trump, while 5 spades shows 2 keycards with the queen of trump. Additional schemes can be used to determine either the number of kings held or the holding of a specific king. 19. Actually, no one escaped from Scarpia's dungeons in Puccini's Tosca. In Act II, Scarpia is holding Tosca's boyfriend, Cavaradossi, in a cell in the Farnese Palace in Rome. Tosca agrees to have sex with Scarpia if he releases Cavaradossi. In order to get Tosca to sleep with him, he signs an order to carry out a mock firing squad, after which Tosca stabs and kills Scarpia. In Act III, on the roof of Castel Sant'Angelo (yes, the very same Castel Sant'Angelo that figured so prominently at the end of Angels & Demons,) Cavaradossi goes before the firing squad. Tosca thinks it is just a sham, and that Cavaradossi will escape, but Scarpia had given his henchman a coded message that it was, in fact, to be a real execution. When Tosca realizes that Cavaradossi is dead, and as the soldiers are coming to arrest her for Scarpia's murder, she jumps from the parapets to her death. 24.Enrique Hernandez against the Nats just last week. [/QUOTE]

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