Kapi Blas

Hello Badger. Thank you very much for your honest reply. :-) Bridge community is really awesome, helpful and caring. I can't count all of these amazing people i met by playing and enjoying bridge. The only bad thing i figured out about bridge community is that it is too conservative. Im often playing in some regional tournaments in my country and i can't name anyone who would be playing any other system than Polish Club or Martens-Przybora system called Strefa. At the professional level there is 1 Polish pair that plays 2/1 system, that is Kalita-Nowosadzki, everybody else is playing Polish Club. As you said lots of convention and systems do stand the test of time but i can't say honestly that this makes them best available. Bridge bidding is still evolving and thing such as for example transfering colour that youve opened during the slam try bidding is used only by some of the top World Class pairs. It isnt very hard tool and it can be used by any regular partnership but people found this unnatural. Best professional pairs bid really aggresively for example Meckwells. If you will not force your oponents to make mistakes they won't do any at the higher level. Obviously you can use any even most conservative openings and still be very solid Player or even one of the greatest because your card Play is very very good. That's my opinion and it may change when i will have as much experience as you ;-)

2 ♦ ACOL is any GF band or 23+ balanced. I swaped 2♣ with 2♦ beacause it leaves your more bidding room after more common opening. Opening 2♣ as 18-19 HCP balanced is much better than opening this as 1♣. Your oponents cant interfere that easily and you can still play 2M from the right hand if you dont have enough to go higher. The second thing is that you can use 2NT rebid after opening 1m for some strong single suited hands or anything you want. Meckwell Precision is a strong club system and not a natural one so thats not quite what i meant. ;-)

Hey guys! 2/1 systems are probably most common ones right know. All of them are using 2♣ ACOL bid or 2♦ACOL bid. Because this Game Forcing hands comes very rarely, there must be another way to use this bids for something more common. Some 5-5 hands or something like that. Obviously there must be some opening, which would contain these GF hands. I was thinking that it might be 1♣ maybe? This is the system i'm currently playing: 1♣ 2+ clubs 12-21 HCP 1♦ 4+ diamonds 12-21 HCP 1♥ 5+ hearths 12-21 HCP 1♠ 5+ spades 12-21 HCP 1 NT 15-17 HCP or 10-13 HCP balanced while not vulnerable against vulnerable 2♣ 18-19 HCP balanced 2♦ ACOL 2♥ 5+ hearths and 4+ minor 2-9HCP not vulnerable or 6+ hearths 6-10 HCP vulnerable 2♠ 5+ spades and 4+ minor 2-9HCP not vulnerable or 6+ spades 6-10 HCP vulnerable 2 NT 20-22 HCP balanced 3♣/♦/♥/♠ 7+ vulnerable or 6+ not vulnerable, not constructive As you can see the system is very destructive while not vulnerable but it could be even better i guess when 2♦ would be showing 4+-4+ majors 2-9 HCP for example. What are your thoughts about removing ACOL opening from 2/1 systems?