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i don't like this system. if your partner like this kind of 1C maybe he will like chappi or comic club as its called today i think

I know people who play 10 years and more but just don't know much about how to play this game. I don't mean squeeze, i mean finesse.

It depends on your Jacoby continuations, but in general i think any hand with 5 card suit added by 2 of the 3 honors should bid the suit and not Jacoby. I don't say only these hand types.

To make you the diamonds to break and the K club with south (or some mistake). win the A of diamond, take out the spades AKQ, play club to the 10, if this holds, play the J spade and take the club finnese for your 9th trick. 4S3C1D1H.

I check with my partner and also checked this issue with GIB. 1. the 2c bid doesn't show 6 clubs, and it could hold some strong hands with 5C4H. 2. with 5C4H and 17-18 you can bid 2NT (gib say 16-18) 3. with 5C4H and 15-16 you will bid 2C (gib strangly bid 2c with stronger then this which is a mistake imo) I thought it make sense to lower down the 2NT to something like 15-17 which mean that with 18-19 yo will need to find something else maybe 3NT

Well i'm not looking for teaching material, my partner is an expert and I wanted to know if this is an expert standard.

1h is not forcing but it can be very strong. 1S= spades 6+ hcp my partner (who is a very good player) thinks that 2C can also be strong (15-16 points i think) and he therefore thinks that its his duty with a good 9 (not a perfect that wants game opposite 12) to carry on.

Lets say opener has 14-15-16-17 hcp and responder has 9-10 hcp. How will they get (or not get to game) with these hands. Should it be opener who make a bid other then 2C (ex 3C or 2NT), or should it be responder that after 2C make another bid ?

1♣ - 1♦ 1♥ - 1NT 2♣ - 2NT How strong can the 2♣ be ? How strong should the 2NT be ?

discouraging diamond shows tolerance for the obvious shift.

1. OS is not ignoring the suit led (diamonds here) but give also high priority to the obvious shift suit and some lower priority to the other suits. in some cases both partners need to be careful, you should sometimes give the least damaging signal, for example with xxx in club as here assuming you don't have the A or K in club, it seems worse that partner will open club, you rather tell him to continue diamond, or just play passive. On the other side, the partner should not be too fast to open a suit if the tricks are not likely to run away. 2. you are right that OS doesn't do any magic of adding more information to the signals, what it does is clear for the partnership the priority of the suits, the example here is great, playing with an expert partner without OS, i would discourage diamond hoping for a club switch but partner might think i am looking for hearts. playing OS with a my inter/adv partner I would discourage and it would be clear to both of us what suit i'm looking for.

As I said, playing OS (obvious shift) its clear, as this is the all point of obvious shift. http://www.bridgewithdan.com/systems/ObviousShift.html

Playing OS the defense is pretty clear here, i would make it at the table with a regular partner.

play spade, hopefully can get a trump. At first I thought you should cash the ac first but this can sell the contract if declarer has somthing like xx akjxxx x xxxx in such a case partner after winning the spade should switch to trump (not easy but possible) A side point to you is that normally with kj10 you play the j, so 10 deny the j. edited: declarer can make anyway with that 2614 if he guess the diamond.

Sometimes you need to do the least damage thing, and if as you say i had the AH and nothing in club, i would enc diamond, but as east after partner enc diamond, im not sure i continue diamond (it could be very bad idea if partner has 3 to the Q, and nothing in Hearts, so probably should play dimaond) about the hand you gave, 3 small is always the obvious shift first candidate.

Signalling should never be just about the suit lead, so when you descarage diamond you imply that you want a shift. there are many hands that you cannot tolerate a shift and would therefore encourage the suit lead since it is less damaging than a switch. Obvious shift is a signaling system that the granoveters published in their book, you can read about it on daniel's site. Obvious shift is considered for experts but it actually design to make things simpler so make things simpler that the non expert player will be able to know what his signal mean as he was an expert by simply memorizing a set of rules and more important that his partner will be on the same waves. basically any signal is giving preference between the lead suit and the obvious shift suit which is defined by the set of rules.

Phil, i didn't mean when partner encourage, I meant when he discourage. I thought this is what you meant to say, that even if partner discourage thinking that this shows hearts rather then club its still good to play small club. I'm not saying its wrong, just that on some hands it will lose.

Yes but can be wrong on many hands where west doesn't have 5 diamonds.

West should discourage,This should ask for club (its easier when playing OS) now if playing os i would feel confident to play small club (my partner will not enc club without the K), but not playing os i would probably play the A of club

The poll results are clear, I overcalled, with the idea that I am worth 2 bids, and would prefer to bid 1S and then a double, than first double and then either a second double or 2S. for example: I preferred 1C-1S-2C/3C-P-P-D then 1C-D-2C/3C-P-P. I thought this is was suggested by both partnership bidding at bridge and mike Lawrence complete book of t.o double, but they didn't actually talked about this specific shape, but more of 5431 (which they suggested to overcall rather than double) thank everyone

no one vul partner pass and RHO open 1C (better minor) Your hand: ♠AQ943 ♥A963 ♦Ak82 ♣--- Do you double or bid 1 spade ?

Hi, When Ben closed the book review and wrote that from now each book will have an individual thread i thought it make sense with the new forum, but the results are very clear, the wonderful thread of book died and nothing took its place. I think it will be a good idea to go back to one thread for the books as it used to be.

Positive Declarer play of bridge by Terence Reese and Julian Pottage. 150+ pages of declarer play problems, Each problem take one page to describe and one page for solution on the next page. Its the kind of hands which you can solve at one specific early point in the play. (not the play these hands with me type where you keep getting more information and rethink every few tricks) The hands are not easy, i don't think even experts will find all solutions. The explanations are clear and short. There are some small mistakes in the solutions, but not too many. Overall recommend it to anyone who is looking for hard to solve hands without too many words.

2S - normal 2D - 3Hs (same as support double no need extra or club length) 3D - ask for stoper usually based on strong club suit. 4D = spliter

bidding 3C with both of them is ok. 4C on second one is wrong.