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Yes, I'd like to know how they handle 2-over-1 auctions. What's forcing and what isn't.

2/1 auctions are forcing to game, with the exception of auctions beginning 1M-2. This shows either a limit raise of the major (usually with three-card support) or a game force with clubs. Opener rebids his major with four cards and a minimum (thus either a canapé opening or a weak no trump), bids 2 with five of his major and a hand unsuitable for any other call, or makes a call above two of his major to show various above-minimum openings with five cards in the major or with 17-19 balanced.

 

This two-way 2 response is not a new idea, but it took me and the Hacketts some time to work out a way of playing it in their four-card major structure. So far, it has earned its keep.

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