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1 ♠ – 2 ♣ 2 ♠ – 2NT. Forcing to game, with balanced hand and a good club suit. 1 ♠ – 2 ♣ 2 ♦ – 3 ♣ Forcing, unless the partnership has agreed that this is an exception to the "2/1 rule." 1 ♦ – 2 ♣ Forcing for one round only (as in Standard American), except in the variant of 2/1 where this sequence is game forcing as ...
Other popular Precision variations on opening bids are using a strong 1NT (14–16 is most common), using 2 ♣ to show only a 6+ club suit and expanding the possible hand patterns for the 2 ♦ bid to include the usual 4–4–1–4 and 4–4–0–5 as well as 4–3–1–5 and 3–4–1–5,1 ♦ bid promises at least 2 diamonds.
The vocabulary of bidding is limited to 38 different calls - 35 level/denomination bids [1] plus pass, double and redouble. Any bid becomes a contract if followed by three successive passes, therefore every bridge bid is a potential contract. By the rules of the game, the agreed meanings of all calls must be public and known to the opponents ...
A bid of five notrump shows either: Any two aces, or; One ace, and the kings of all suits previously bid by either partner. A bid of a new suit shows first-round control (ace or void) there, but is not compulsory with such a holding. Six of a previously bid suit shows a desire to play there (holding one ace, or the kings of all bid suits).
In the card game contract bridge, a forcing bid is any call that obliges the partner to bid over an intermediate opposing pass. Owing to the partnership's bidding system or a bridge convention, partner must "keep the bidding open", [1] i.e. not pass, thereby preventing his left-hand opponent from ending the auction with a pass and enabling the "forcing bidder" to bid further.
For example, on the sequence 1 ♣-1 ♠ (with or without opponent's interfering);1NT-2 ♣;2 ♦,2 ♥ will show an invitational hand with minimum five spades and four hearts, 2 ♠ an invitational hand with minimum five spades (in which case one does not have four hearts) or possibly six spades with or without four hearts. 2NT will show a balanced invitational hand, 3 ♣ typically an ...
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"Standard American" was the label given to the bridge bidding system developed by Charles Goren and his contemporaries in the 1940s. This system employed the 1915 point-count method to evaluate the strength of a bridge hand. Most bids had fairly specific requirements regarding hand strength and suit distribution.