sceptic Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 what is your most undispensable convention and why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 1♠ showing 5 spades (both as opening, or as overcall). No better preempt has been invented yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Any relay bid :D For openings NV: Lorenzo two's! 2X = 0-7HCP, 4+cards X, Majors first style :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 RKC Blackwood - I have found it essential in staying out of bad slams when we happen to miss two key cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badmonster Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Gambling 3nt? Or unusual nt? But I couldn't say they're the most useful conventions. They don't come up with the frewquency of say stayman or negative doubles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Forcing NT (2/1 GF). As nebulous as it can (must) be, it transformed the naturalish sayc into a force to be reckoned with. Altho it confuses the heck out of both opps and pards at times, it provides so many solutions to difficult bidding and rebidding situations that its value is inestimable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 First step, artificial and forcing: Takeout doubles, negative double, Stayman, that sort of thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Take-out doubles. When we've played as a fill-in pair during a holiday weekend, we play*14-17 1NTStayman*Weak jump overcallsTake-out doubles4th suit forcingSplintersBid of the opponents' suit usually artificial and forcing 2C strong and artificial with a 2D negativeArtificial 2NT response to strong natural 2-bids * these aren't really conventions of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigi_BC84 Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Apart from the obvious that have already been mentioned: Inverted Minors.--Sigi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickyB Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Definitely takeout doubles, followed by artificial bids of the opponents suit and the 4th suit. Can't think of anything close to those two - I guess various fit-showing bids come up next, including Drury if playing strong NT and 4 card majors (which I much prefer in 3rd+4th). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 If I were condemned to play 'natural bridge': sort of like culbertson in 1933, and could add one convention, it would be stayman. It is not as 'sexy' as my current 'favourite': a multi 2♥ opening bid, but it is the most important: with takeout doubles second and negative doubles third. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickyB Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 I consider takeout doubles to include negative doubles, snapdragon doubles, etc - they are all just names for a double showing that you wish to compete. I'm not sure that stayman is that important. 2suit nat NF, 2NT/3suit nat forcing works pretty well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Is undispensible similar to indispensible? :D OK I checked it - it is :D Well, if you put it in those terms, the best invention of the 20th century was a strong 2♣. Basic negative doubles and splinters (what ELSE you gonna use a double jump for) are a close 2nd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 I agree with take-out doubles, including negative doubles and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshs Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Serious 7N. Its so much better than scrambling 7N and slightly better than non-serious 7N, which gets xed more often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 cuebids (of all kinds). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 My most recent favorite has many names:"reverse flannery" "FLOP", "The Cosmic Convention" I put Stayman up near the top of any list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echognome Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 My favourite conventions are: Snapdragon DoubleSpiral ScanningPsycho SuctionPrism Signals Because they have the coolest sounding names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearmum Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 I like Neg doubles RKCB Stayman Q bids --- most of the others I can and mostly DO do without :P (ESPECIALLY in casual partnerships) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limey_p Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 I am not big on conventions ... I prefer to have agreements. And the nicest ones to have are the ones that are so darned expensive when you are lacking them. I think these are all mentioned above: low-level doubles - takeout, negative, support & snapdragon & similar.4th suit forcing, new minor forcingcue bid of opps suitslam bidding - key card, control bidding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awm Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 Natural, weak 2♦Nonforcing 1NT response to 1MPenalty doublesWeak jump overcallsNatural 1NT overcall Of course, these are all really advanced, complicated conventions, and most modern players aren't up to learning them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricK Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 It is almost impossible to bid a lot of hands without take-out/negative doubles. Other things are nice, but nothing else is as necessary. Actually, for the last couple of weeks I have been playing an incredibly simple system with a new partner at a local club. The only convention we have used so far is one instance of Stayman - and that didn't actually help us. If we had been playing a 2m response to 1NT as naturalish (3+, invitational) we would have done better on that hand. On only one hand would a convention have come in handy and that is a cue-bid of opponents suit as an artificial force. But even that wasn't necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABadPlayer Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 I love to cue-bid - particularly as limit-raise+. Multi just because it frees up 2♥/2♠ But my favorite overall bid has to be Wk 1NT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blofeld Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Takeout doubles (of all varieties), without a doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 When does it count as convention, when is it "just bridge" or a way of life? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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