For those moscito fanatics out there I've written up the moscito 2005 bidding system by Paul Marston (constructed from his convention card from a Bermuda Bowl a while ago-got sick of waiting for him to release the system! argh) The 1C structure is awesome-we only really use the 1C structure and dont use the submarine 1D/1H/1S transfer openings though. However, it is slightly out-of-date with respect to the responses to the submarine 1D/1H/1S openings that Marston now plays-I believe he has transfer responses where the step response is now either a game forcing relay or the equivalent of a 1NT balanced hand response. For those not in the know, in moscito 2005 the 1C is a 15+ strong hand with the following responses: 1D = 6+QP, game forcing any (except for game forcing 5440 hands) 1H = 3-5QP, semipositive, balanced may have 5 card major OR unbalanced no 5 card major 1S = negative (0-2QP) any 1NT = semipositive 5+ hearts 4+ another 2C = semipositive 5+ spades 4+ minor 2D = semipositive 5+ hearts 4+ spades 2H = semipositive heart singlesuiter 2S = semipositive spade singlesuiter 2NT+ = game forcing 5440 hands This structure works well in that it saves space for the good hands, and helps prevent interference after a negative response to the 1C. Also, there's good notes dealing with interference (as essential to any strong 1C system). If you're interested, feel free to download it from http://s12.quicksharing.com/v/4323556/Moscito.doc.html Enjoy! There's probably more than a few mistakes/omissions but if you could point them out to me that'd be great. I actually had a more correct version a long time ago and it's taken me a while to finally go back and rewrite the whole damn 16 pages of it after my comp hd died at the beginning of last year =(
