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Opening bid conventions. Strong opening bids are used for hands stronger than the "normal" opening bid range (12-20 points in natural systems, 12-15/17 points in artificial systems) Strong two clubs in natural systems denote hands of 22+ high card points; Benjamin Twos in natural systems; Strong one club in strong club systems denotes hands of ...
This opening bid is a distinctive feature of Benjamin Twos, closely resembling the strong two clubs convention. The opening bid of 2 ♦ is game-forcing. That is, opener and responder must keep the bidding open until at least a game has been reached. (3 NT / 4 ♥ / 4 ♠ / 5 ♦ / 5 ♣).
A bid of 2NT shows a strong balanced hand, usually 20-21 HCP. Opening bids of 3 of any suit are preemptive, showing a 7+ card suit and 6-10 points (mostly inside the bid suit). The meaning of 2 ♦, 2 ♥ and 2 ♠ varies. One common usage is that the bid shows a weak two bid, similar to a preemptive bid.
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 ...
One major advantage of the artificial opening bid of 2 ♣ for all types of strong hands is that other opening bids at the two-level (2 ♦, 2 ♥ and 2 ♠) become available for weak two bids, thus eliminating many possible bids for the opponents. These weak two hands appear 20 times as often as the very strong hands, which illustrates the ...
Opener bids: 3♣ = good opening, 3 ♦ relays and 3 ♥ shows spades. 3♠ shows hearts. 3 ♦ = hearts, minimum opening 3 ♥ = spades, minimum opening 3♣ response – GF, any one-suited hand, puppet to 3 ♦. 3 ♦ – game-invitational with support in both majors; Opener bids 4♣ with hearts and 4 ♦ with spades if the invitation is ...
For an example of such a "light" opening bid, holding ♠ AJ853 ♥ J10852 ♦ 9 ♣ KQ, second seat with both vulnerable, Nunes opened 1 ♠ and alerted it as 14+ HCP or 11+ with 4+ ♥ (along with the 5+ ♠ promised by the opening bid). The 14-HCP minimum for an opening one bid is only a guideline; a hand with much "playing strength" (for ...
It is a natural bid, used to show a hand that is too strong to open at the one level. Commonly used in the early days of bridge, most expert players converted after World War II to the now more common weak two bid [2] retaining only 2 ♣ as a strong opening suit-bid and changing its meaning to artificial and forcing holding any suit. This was ...