Sacrifice
AUCTION · SCORING
Deliberately bidding a contract you expect to fail because going down will cost less than the opponents’ making game or slam.
5♣ doubled over their 4♠, down 2 for −300 vs their −620.
Related
Penalty double · Vulnerability
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Adapted from Wikipedia’s Glossary of contract bridge terms · CC BY-SA 4.0 — our adapted text is shared under the same license.