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This isnt news, sometimes you bid 1nt without a stop in the opponents suit and you call it, a small lie. I'm asking if its wise to make this a rule rather the a small lie, 1nt in competition doesnt show a stoper. The resson to bid 1nt without a stop, is that you dont need a stoper to make 1nt, you can lose 6 tricks. The problem with bidding 1nt without a stop, is that partner will assume you have a stop, and might get you to 3nt, where you need a stoper. The solution i suggest is agreeing that 1nt doesnt show a stoper and partner will never take it to 3nt unless he has the stopr or he asked about it and found i got it. There is a probelm with this idea is that sometimes it will get you to wrong sided contacts, therefore i suggest the rule , a bid of 1nt show a stoper in a suit of rho, and not showing stoper in a suit of LHO. This will get you to declarering NT when the stronger hand is on the lead which is good.

Chess rating is definetly better. You can know that from how importent is rating in chess as opposite to bridge. I guess there could be a conpermise between the two which would be perfect, meaning you wont lose much.

yes not exactly what i ment.

Remove teh diaamond Ten I would still want to be in 6clubs... Diamonds might be 3-3, spade king might be onside. With heart, spade and diamond theats, May have a squeeze. With 11 tricks, only one quick loser, and without mirror distributions, I favor my chances in slam....besides, how else can you try for hands of the week, if you don't press the limits... what fun is virutally laydown slams. What about the Q of diamond ? can you give her up too ? I'll give you the K of spade instead.

only problem of this auction is that if you play RKCB (kickback or not), 6 of a non-trump suit is SSA = Specific Suit Ask = a control asking bid looking for a Grand. So if you "agree" diamonds to find the queen, you may be unable to stop in 6 Clubs, and you'll have to play 6 or 7 diamonds. E.g. 4H (kickback for diams)-4NT (1/4 keycards or 0/3 if playing 1430) 5C(Q ask)- 5D ( no queen) ? Now, if you bid 6C it's Grand Slam Try asking for control in clubs I found that it helps alot to be flexiable about your trump in rkcb auctions, this need to ask about a Q and sometimes the K of a suit and still play in another trump is much more common then special grand slam bids. I agree that there might still be a problem, just ment to show the idea.

When you have the wrong target, its make sense that you will buy the wrong shues, if games is what intrest you when RHO open then maybe playing your way is right, but the bridge world already understand that games are not the real target, in competitve bidding games are not so importet , and therefore hcp isnt too importent, the law of total trick is a better tool then hcp. getting to the right contract which usually is a partsocre, and getting our opponents out of theirs is a more inportent target then finding if we have a game. sure we might miss a game now and then but we will still be in most of them, and will win more partscore battles.

I agree, actually when i gave my answer i didnt know about the spade discard made by partner. So i agree with ur K of club.

Passive leads against slam is a losing tactic, it is rare to sell exactly the 12th trick. even with the change you made 6nt will make most of the times on any lead.

There is one funny way i can think of bidding this. dont mean to give the all auction, just the idea. 1C-1D 4H* - kickback for diamond. Now if partner show 1 A and the Q, you can bid 7, if he show 1A or the Q u can bid 6, if he show nither u stay out of slam.

I stayed at 3nt, but was lucky since clubs dont break. I no idea how to bid it, and since it was mp i figured 3nt will beat all those who will play 5c and has achance to give good score. anyway the key is the Q of diamond and i am not sure anyone here can learn about this card.

why? I told you the solution.... lollll :-) Your answer is nice, but why is it better to play K of club then small diamond, can declarer make it , on a diamond return with the hand you gave him ? you may be very right... of course... i am still wanting to wack my partner in the head.. i feel that way a lot of times... "-) But the play might go, win dimaond in hand (unblock nine), lead king of hearts... Partner wins.. .and? Returns spede? to late? returns club? too late.. Lets go with club. Win in dummy, cross to the diamond, cash heart, lead a spade... comes to 9 tricks... you got to knock out two clubs.. by going now I think Besides.. doens't seem appropriate you should lead an unprotected black honor (queen at trick one), and failing to do that, you should lead a different one (king) at trick four? There is a beatiful symmetry to the plays. Ben Its very hard for declarer to play heart, he dont know hearts break 6-2, he would probebly play either club or spade and go down.

why? I told you the solution.... lollll :-) Your answer is nice, but why is it better to play K of club then small diamond, can declarer make it , on a diamond return with the hand you gave him ?

Curiosity is killing me :D

Very intersting hand, i can see some squeezes potential after Q spade lead even when partner has the J.

Declarer most likely distibution is: 2353 but can also have 3352. I dont think dclarer would have bid 1nt with 54 in the minors, he should support with this. Leading heart now is wrong, partner cant have AK from the bidding but even if he has AKxxxx we still have time, dclarer have at most 3 clubs+4 and a heart, to run now. There are two better options, first The Q of spade, second a diamond. The Q of spade seems good at first, but it isnt that great, even if declarer has Jx of spade, he will play low on the first round. leading spade can sell the contract if declarer doesnt have J10 of club and have the KJ of heart. in this case a spade will give declarer 2H,4D,1S,2C, while a diamond continuation would give him a problem of entries to his hand, he cant take the club finnse, the spade finnse and play a heart . So i choose diamond. Jxx KJx AJ10xx xx this was the hand i taked about, leading a diamond , declarer cant make more then 8 tricks.

1NT look nice but with my luck partner will definetly have 6 card spade suit and we will play in 4sp on 6-1. the good thing is this might just be the right contract.

Because you think your opponents, with a nine card spade fit, are going to let you play there? We have either two 8 card fits or a nine card fit ourselves. I see two very strong possibilities for this hand after my partner denies four spades: 1. We make 3NT. 2. They make 3♠. The opponents were kind enough to pass even though they have at least 16 cards in the majors. They aren't going to pass a second time. Bid 2NT or 3♣ if you're chicken, but don't let them find their spade fit. They have a spade fit, but im not sure we can do much about it. 2nt and 3c are both asking partner to bid 3nt with a good hand. 2c might even help them to get to there spade. bidding 2nt and 3c as partly a save bid (you hope to make but know you will go down most of the time and hope even then you have a good score) is a nice idea, but i think i would choose to pass 1nt and then compete the hand to 3c and let them buy it in 3sp.

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Ok i'll tell you the point of this post. From the biding i thought its likely clubs are 3-1 and everything else is at RHO, now like THE_Hog said, you have 4 clubs and one of each other suits, so you need both finneses, if you play diamond finnese first, then you wont have the entry to the heart finnese, if you play Q of heart, RHO will cover and when he get in with clubs he will play hearts, and you will go down losing hearts. The best play is the simplest, play another club, RHO is enplayed and will give u both finnese, if he play diamond u take it with the Q and finnese hearts. Its funny because you are in dummy and you think its the last time ur there so you better use it to take one finnese, but it turn out that not taking any finnese give you enough for two finneses.

So how about if clubs are 3-1 ? what to play after the A of club ?

Yes LHO put the 10, you put the A, and then what ?

How do you call this system ? Is there any copy of it on the WEB ?

I ment to one reahced 7, its just make no sense at all. You 1s-2s-4s is ok by me, and maybe i would take it too.

Didnt mean to, my intention was to tell scpetic that he shouldnt learn from such bids.

I think south should excpet a mini in diamond with this hand.