goggleboxw

Thanks for your suggestion, and I shall look at UDCA, which I know is popular with other partnerships. The reason I've been looking for something simple is that I am playing with a new partner and we're trying to establish a bidding system together (Andrew Robson looms large), and we need a discard system, and my brain is now full up!.........

Thank you for this. I know partnerships that play the upside down attitude, and it does seem to be the most inexpensive method. I've been trying to find a system that requires the minimum of options...

I want a discard system to signal my partner a suit preference which does not involve discarding with high cards, or signalling with alternative options. Hence Attitude, Roman, Revolving Discards, Laventhal, McKenney all require high card discards or high/low signals, or odd/even signals. The system I prefer (and I can’t find where it originated from) is very simple. The card I discard signals that I want the suit above (skipping the missing suit). Therefore, if I want a spade, I discard a heart; if I want a heart I discard a diamond, if I want a club I discard a spade. This is somewhat like revolving discards, but doesn’t involve the option of low or high discards. It seems to me that discarding a high card in a suit that you want to take tricks in is wasteful. And the various options in other systems mean partner has to work out what you want led. So, what is wrong with a very simple system? Where does it fall down?