Do you find 7S?

[Raivis]

1♠-2NT

3♥-4♦

4♥-4♠

5♥-6♦

6♥-6NT

7♠.

 

2NT* - invitional or better hand, 4+ support

3H* - shortness

4D* - not minimal hand, cue

4H* - singleton honour/void

4S

5H* -♣A+♦A+♥A/void

6D* - discard suit, ask support

6H* - minimal support, ask spade quality

6NT

7S

[junyi_zhu]

This one our opponents had on a club evening, and they stopped in 4♠ after a misunderstanding. However, nobody found the grand. Can you?

 

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We would probably bid it as follows:

1♠ - 3♣! (5+♠ ; 10-13 BAL 3+♠)

3♥! - 3♠! (SI with shortness ; relay)

4♥! - 4NT (singleton ♥ ; RKC)

5♣ - 5♦ (1/4 ; ♠Q?)

6♠ - 7♠? (♠Q without Kings ; ♦Axx+???)

The question at 6♠ is if opener has ♦Axx or longer, or if it's Ax (singleton A is impossible as opener would've shown singleton ♦ instead of ♥ with 2 stiff Aces, or shown a second suit if it's good enough). We don't know, we only know opener has 5+♠ from KQ, singleton ♥ and 3 Aces. Chance is big North has at least 3♦ so I think we should bid the grand.

2D(19-20, one suiter) 2H(relay)

2N(S one suiter, 6 or more, no side suits) 3H(4 +card support, relay, asking H)

4C(stiff H) 4D(relay)

4H(3 Diamonds) 4N(rkc)

5C 7S

[mycroft]

I'm looking at:

1C-1H (strong - spades)

1S-2C (agree spades - 3 controls)

2S-3C (spades? - 5 to 1/top3)

3D-3NT (diamonds? - second round)

4C-4H (clubs? - third round)

5D-5S (DK or stiff? - K)

6D-7S(?) (anything else in D? - Yep)

 

or 1C-1H; 1S-2C; 2S-3C; 3D-3NT;

4H-4S (hearts? - xxx+)

5C-5H (clubs? - third round)

6D-7S(?) (you have to have SA DK, anything else in D? - Yep)

 

Harder with the second path because we would have to both be on the same wavelength that the type-of-control query in diamonds is unnecessary. But yeah, 1460 should still be a good result.

[Free]

I'm looking at:

1C-1H (strong - spades)

1S-2C (agree spades - 3 controls)

2S-3C (spades? - 5 to 1/top3)

3D-3NT (diamonds? - second round)

4C-4H (clubs? - third round)

5D-5S (DK or stiff? - K)

6D-7S(?) (anything else in D? - Yep)

 

or 1C-1H; 1S-2C; 2S-3C; 3D-3NT;

4H-4S (hearts? - xxx+)

5C-5H (clubs? - third round)

6D-7S(?) (you have to have SA DK, anything else in D? - Yep)

 

Harder with the second path because we would have to both be on the same wavelength that the type-of-control query in diamonds is unnecessary. But yeah, 1460 should still be a good result.

Interesting, finally a precision auction with asking bids in action. But how do you know partner doesn't have ♣Qxx or QJx or something similar? That's also a 3rd round control right?

[Fluffy]

If you want a strong club auction I give you our viking club:

 

1♣-1♥ (strong- 5+ spades or balanced)

1♠-2♥ (relay- 5+ sapdes balanced or 4+ hearts, minimum)

2♠-3♣ (relay- 5422)

3♦-3♥ (relay-1 ace)

3♠-4♣ (relay-1 king)

4NT-5♠ (relay-♦ King)

5NT-6♦ (relay-1 queen)

 

damnit I got out of space to ask wich queen ;), needed them to be ♣KQ

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