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(The opening bid promised a minimum of 13, and responder's 10 or 11 points adds up to 23 or 24 points, very close to the 25 points needed to bid a major-suit or no-trump game.) Next priority is to bid the longest suit. Show 5-card support for partner's minor suit opening (4-card support is acceptable but not preferred) by responding 3 of the minor.
Fundamentally, there are three ways to divide four suits into pairs: by color, by rank and by shape resulting in six possible suit combinations. Color is used to denote the red suits (hearts and diamonds) and the black suits (spades and clubs). Rank is used to indicate the major (spades and hearts) versus minor (diamonds and clubs) suits.
This bid should be passed by the opener if the minor is clubs or corrected to diamonds. bid 4 ♦ asking opener to bid their shortness (singleton or void) if it is a major; bid 4NT with 7222 shape, bid their long minor suit with a singleton in the other minor. bid 4NT with four likely tricks, asking opener to continue to slam with an eight card ...
In the Netherlands, a particular modification is growing in popularity: over opponent's opening, a cuebid shows a major and a minor unbid suit. The 2NT overcall is then used to show both majors (after a minor suit opening) or both minors (after a major suit opening). This approach allows all three two suiters in the three unbid suits to be ...
Either limit raises of major suit openings (i.e. the jump raise 1 ♠ – 3 ♠ or 1 ♥ – 3 ♥ shows a game-invitational hand with at least four-card support) or Bergen raises; Inverted minor raises, in which a jump raise of a minor suit opening is a weak preemptive bid, while a single raise is strong and forcing for one round;
3NT — Preemptive, shows a long solid minor suit and is called the Gambling 3NT; Wide-ranging opening bid (made if too strong to pass and unable to make one of the special opening bids): 1 of a suit — Promises a minimum of 12 HCP and a 4-card suit, 11 HCP and a 5-card suit, or 10 HCP and a 6-card suit. Not forcing.
three of a new suit (jump shift) is natural, normally agreed to be game-forcing, and shows about 19 points or more; When opener does not have a six-card original suit nor a four-card lower-ranking second suit, she will have to bid a short suit. Normally, she bids her three-card minor. If she has three cards in both minors, she bids 2 ♣.
Minor suit The club suit and the diamond suit are minor suit s. Declarer scores 20 points for each trick taken in an undoubled contract with a minor suit as trump. Because game requires at least 100 points for tricks bid and made, both 5 ♣ and 5 ♦ (or 3 ♣ doubled and 3 ♦ doubled) constitute game contracts. Contrast Major suits. Minor tenace