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XY Notrump gives very good control finding both games and slams, as the final "mission" of the sequence is established at a relatively early stage of bidding. Playing, as very common in combination with XY no trump, the Walsh convention or even Transfer Walsh , one still has the chance of stopping in 2 ♦ on weak hands, often impossible using ...
Australian Bridge magazine, December 2000, pages 20-21. List of defenses against a 1NT opening (text corrupted, but does provide a listing). Official website; Bridge Buff website: commentary on the MONK convention.
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 ...
Although it is mandatory in the XY Notrump form of the convention to complete the relay 2 ♣ to 2 ♦, when Z was a suit, opener may be unlimited. In such a case it is acceptable, if opener has too good a hand to risk being dropped in 2 ♦ to bypass the relay and make a (forcing) bid.
Likewise, one has the chance of stopping at an early stage, especially using the XY Notrump Convention. It becomes significantly easier to find 3-5 major suit fits (and in some variants 2-5 fits). Opener (usually the stronger hand) becomes declarer in most major suit and NT contracts.
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 ...
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XY Notrump convention; XYZ convention This page was last edited on 29 July 2016, at 15:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...