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Inverted minors refers to a treatment introduced by the Kaplan–Sheinwold (K–S) bidding system for the popular card game bridge. The original structure of Precision, another bidding system, also employed inverted minors over a 1 ♦ opening. However, the treatment is no longer restricted to users of these bidding systems.
This is a list of bidding systems used in contract bridge. [1] [2] Systems listed have either had an historical impact on the development of bidding in the game or have been or are currently being used at the national or international levels of competition. Bidding systems are characterized as belonging to one of two broadly defined categories:
Inverted minor suit raises are used (a single raise is strong, a double raise is weak and preemptive). Weak two bids, including 2 ♦. 2 ♣ is the only strong, forcing opening. Defensively, simple overcalls are taken to have the same range as an opening bid, and take-out doubles emphasize distribution.
2 ♣ shows diamonds or a major-minor two suiter. Responder transfers to 2 ♦ which is either passed or advanced (diamond suit) or a major is bid (2 suiter, unspecified minor) 2 ♦ is a transfer to hearts; 2 ♥ shows both majors (responder may pass or correct to 2 ♠) 2 ♠ shows spades (natural bid) 2NT is a transfer to clubs
A bridge convention is an agreement about an artificial call or a set of related artificial calls. Calls made during the auction phase of a contract bridge game ...
In the game of bridge, a prepared opening bid is a bid which is not usual in the sense that it does not bid the longest suit first. The most common example of this is the better minor or short club opening bid. Another example is a principle of bidding in bridge popularized by Howard Schenken in bridge
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New Minor Forcing (NMF), is a contract bridge bidding convention used to find a 5-3 or 4-4 major suit fit after a specific sequence of bids in which opener has rebid one notrump. The convention is triggered by responder at his second turn by an artificial bid of two in an unbid minor; it requires that he hold five cards in the major he has ...