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As between two major suits or between two minor suits, the bidder opens in the longer suit; with equal lengths, the higher ranking suit is usually chosen. If the opening bid of 1 ♥ or 1 ♠ promises 5 cards, the system is referred to as a "five-card major" system; otherwise, it is referred to as a "four-card major" system.
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 ...
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.
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;
It covers all opening bids of two of a suit: 2 ♣, 2 ♦, 2 ♥ and 2 ♠, albeit with a focus on the minor suits. Of these opening bids, the 2 ♣ and 2 ♦ are strong artificial opening bids, without a necessary connection to the suit bid whilst 2 ♥ and 2 ♠ are weak, preemptive bids indicating a good six-card ♥ or ♠ suit without much ...
(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.
After a 1 ♦ opening, a rebid of 2 ♣ shows the strength and pattern of a reverse, and opener's jump to 3 ♣ shows a weak hand with 5-5 in the minors. In response to one of a minor, responder shows a four card major if possible with a weak or moderate hand. But with values for game, responder first bids a longer side suit, even the other ...
Suction is a contract bridge bidding convention used to intervene over an opponent's 1NT opening. [1] Using the suction convention, a suit overcall of a 1NT opening is conventional and denies the suit actually bid. It shows either: a one-suiter in the next higher ranking suit or; a two suiter in the other two suits.