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The Strong Club System is a set of bidding conventions and agreements used in the game of contract bridge and is based upon an opening bid of 1 ♣ as being an artificial forcing bid promising a strong hand. [1] The strong 1 ♣ opening is assigned a minimum strength promising 16 or more high card points. All other bids would therefore be ...
2NT is a transfer to clubs; 3 ♣ shows both minors (responder may pass or adjust to 3 ♦) 3 ♦ shows both Majors with massive playing strength (responder takes a preference to 3 ♥ or 3 ♠, or jumps to 4 ♥ or 4 ♠ with supporting values) By design, in many cases, the advancer will become declarer, thus placing the strong 1NT hand on ...
The Culbertson 4-5 notrump is a slam-seeking convention in the game of contract bridge. It was devised in the early 1930s by Ely Culbertson. Most four-notrump conventions (Blackwood and its variants being the best known) demand that bidder's partner define their hand using agreed codified responses. In contrast, the Culbertson 4-5 describes the ...
The bid has the dual objectives of preempting the opponents' bidding should they hold the majors and trying for a game in notrump on the gamble that partner might hold adequate support. Because this conventional bid replaces the standard use of opening 3NT (a hand with 25-27 high card points and a balanced distribution), partnerships must use ...
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.
As a bridge hand contains thirteen cards, only two hand patterns can be classified as three suiters: 4-4-4-1 and 5-4-4-0. In natural bidding systems , strong three suiters are often difficult to describe, as — following the likely response of partner in the short suit — they do not allow for a high-level notrump rebid, nor for a reverse bid .
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The Roman Club system, developed in the 1950s, included a treatment of these three suited hands with 2 ♣ showing a weaker hand and 2 ♦ a stronger hand. A response by partner of 2NT was forcing to game. [1] The Blue Club system of bidding was developed and became widely popular in the 1960s and included a 2 ♦ bid to show a 4-4-4-1 hand ...