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How aggressive should the bidding be when overcalling 1♦ opening?

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Hello All! Am looking for defences to precision bidding specifically 1♣ and 1♦ openings. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

How to go about designing a bridge system for teams scoring.

Thanks for your input. I was thinking about starting the transfers thusly: ......2 higher ranking ......2NT ......3 of a lower ranking suit Have not yet worked out the exact meaning of each sequence. Should I be able to transfer into NT? What should transfer and rebid new suit mean?

Does anyone have any information about using transfer jump shifts in response to opening one bids?

So what is Acol 2016? And, how does Acol 2016 bid this hand?

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Why complicate something that is quite simple. Playing standard Acol the bidding would simply go: Opener........Responder ..1H...............4H shortage, 5+ hearts and 10-15 playing points and that is most likely where the auction would end. Playing 4 card Acol with splinters the auction is simple. Opener.......Responder ..1H............4D shortage diamonds, 5+ hearts and 10-15 playing points and now opener decides to continue on or bid 4H, that is the only problem with this hand. Opener has to decide how good his hand is opposite known support and a good shortage.

When I was learning bridge you opened the suit below the shortage and proceeded from there. hence 1H. And with the South hand it is a 4H response <10 hcp and 5+ hearts and some shortage. If you judge the hand good enough to splinter then by all means do so as this option will lead to 6H being the final contract.

Thanks for your reply. Have also used Word for the reasons you have outlined. I guess what I am trying to do is to have system notes that do not run to hundreds of pages yet still cover the system and it's complexities.

Thanks for your reply. I agree that other people's system card can be boring. As for my own system notes as you say nested format it is most likely going to be. Once again thanks for the reply.

Need help in putting pen to paper and writing down system in all its glory and complexity. Are there other methods of recording system structure, notes, agreements, etc other than for example: opening bid hcp suit length hand shape notes 1C, 1D, 1H, 1S 11 4 any natural may contain longer suit Does anyone have any ideas?

Am willing to play canape system but not MICS and can only do so online.

Why have you assumed I have written off artificial opening bids completely? I think I said that all the one bids are natural and that the two calls are a different story. In my case all the 2 openings are artificial with weak and strong options attached to all of them showing all manner of hand types.

No, all I am saying is that once you introduce artificiality you the lose the inherent simplicity of a natural system. You must in some way compensate for this lose of simplicity of the natural system. As far as I am aware all systems have problem hands that are difficult to bid so why have even more problem hands through self infliction.

As I have stated before once you start playing an artificial openings you cannot cover all the permutations that exist. If instead you play simply a natural canape system at the 1 level (the opening 2 bids are another story altogether) where what you bid is what you have then the problems described above do not exist.

Why does a pass show 5 hearts? And what does a bid of 3H show?

The 24HCP NT game is a function of 4 Card majors and weak NTs trumps. With all due respect. You will always bid 24hcp games when your side believes that it is right. It is not merely a function of 4 card majors and/or weak NT. All systems will bid these games when one hand opens and the other hand percieves that they have an opening hand. In Mavarako it would go 1H(4+)-2C-2H(3+[7-9HCP])-3C (3)-X! (14-16HCP 4 Hearts)-p-p-? This idea is not unique to Mavarako. In the natural canape system I play X is used as a positive forward going call and all others are merely competitive except of course systemic bids and cue bids. That is X shows extra values. This idea is used by both opener and responder.

♠Axx..............♠Jxx ♥x........... .....♥Axxxxx ♦AKQx..........♦JTxx ♣AKQxx.........♣X Us..........Them..........Us..........Them 1♦..........1♠...............3♦ If you just play a natural canape system you would open 1D and the bid some number of clubs. When the 1♠ overcall occurs the opener now has all sorts of options open to them and a slam should be easily reached. Even if there is no interpose slam is still easily reached if you are playing a natural canape system.

I should further add that we play a relay bid to the 1 suit openings and 2♣ to 1♠. We find that this works really well and allows the 0-5 hcp hand the opportunity to find partners longer suit. To date it has caused us no problems that is huge penalties as a result of being doubled by opposition.

Our 1NT opening is 17-20 hcp and can contain the following hand patterns with no shortages 4333 4432 5332 6322 and 7222 the long suit can be major or minor. This means that our 1NT rebid by opener is 11-16 hcp. But because we are able to open 4 card suits this 1NT rebid range is not causing a major problem. The only irritant with this range is when partner shows 10 hcp and we have 15-16 hcp, opener is obliged to rebid 3NT on the assumption that 25 hcp will produce game.

You raise some interesting points. Firstly in the canape system I play all 11 hcp hands are opened the only exception is 4333 and then it is up to the discretion of the opener. Secondly, with regards to the 1NT range if you are opening 4 card majors you do not need to play a weak NT as the whole idea of the weak NT is the pre-emption effect it creates. If you are opening 4 card majors you have a pre-emption effect. In fact in my opinion there is no point in laying five card majors and a strong no-trump opening you should play a weak NT opening.

You raise some interesting points. Firstly in the canape system I play all 11 hcp hands are opened the only exception is 4333 and then it is up to the discretion of the opener. Secondly, with regards to the 1NT range if you are opening 4 card majors you do not need to play a weak NT as the whole idea of the weak NT is the pre-emption effect it creates by taking up the space that the better minor opening affords the opposition. If you are opening 4 card majors you have a pre-emption effect. In fact in my opinion there is no point in playing five card majors and a strong no-trump opening you should play a weak NT opening.