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It is a natural system: most opening bids, responses and rebids are made with at least four cards in the suit bid, and most no trump bids are made with balanced hands. It is a four-card major system: only four-card suits are required to open 1 ♠ or 1 ♥, unlike Standard American and many other systems where five-card suits are typically ...
The forcing notrump is a bidding convention in the card game of bridge. In Standard American bidding, the response of 1NT to an opening bid of 1 ♥ or 1 ♠ shows 6 to 9 high card points (HCP) and is non-forcing. Opener, with a balanced minimum, may pass the 1NT response and, if the opponents also pass, that will become the contract.
In most early bidding systems, opening bids of two of a suit signified a very strong hand and were referred to as strong two bids. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] However, pioneer bridge inventors like Pierre Albarran and David Burnstine [ 3 ] saw that the frequency of such bids is fairly low, and that a 2 ♣ bid can be used for all strong hands, leaving other ...
A bidding convention initiated by responder following partner's notrump opening bid that requests opener rebid in the suit ranked just above that bid by responder, i.e. a response in diamonds requests a rebid in hearts and a response in hearts requests a rebid in spades; other responses may carry other meanings; designed to make the stronger ...
The Baron Three Clubs is an alternative to the responder using Stayman over a 2NT opening bid. The responder will have five points or more and an unbalanced hand. The responder bids 3 ♣, which asks opener to bid his four-card suits in ascending order. If clubs are the only four-card suit, the opener bids 3NT.
a non-jump response in a new suit at the two-level is forcing to game, and; a 1NT response to a major opening is forcing for one round and indicates insufficient values to immediately commit to game or bid a suit at the one-level. The 2/1 game force does not apply to responses by a passed hand, or if there is an intervening call by an opponent ...
An opening bid of 2NT shows 20, 21 or 22 HCP. If responder has 13 HCP, then a small slam looks certain (13 + 20 opener's minimum = 33) and should be bid If responder has 11 or 12 HCP, then a small slam is a possibility but more information is needed about opener's hand before it should be bid.
Here, the 2 ♠ bid denotes a four card spade support and a hand too strong for a fast-arrival bid of 4 ♠. This assumes the partnership are playing all FSF bids, at 2 or 3 level, as forcing to game. If playing that a 2 level FSF bid is forcing for one round only, responder will need to jump to 3 ♠ on the third round to create the game force.