fuburules3 Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 http://tinyurl.com/83xfveb What is my bid over 2♣ in GIB? It seems both 2,3, and 4 ♦ are natural bids and if I bid 2♠ it thinks I have 5♥ and insists that hearts are trumps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloa513 Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 http://tinyurl.com/83xfveb What is my bid over 2♣ in GIB? It seems both 2,3, and 4 ♦ are natural bids and if I bid 2♠ it thinks I have 5♥ and insists that hearts are trumps.Don't start that way- bid 2♣ over 1♣. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahydra Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 What about 4C over 2C? ahydra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted March 13, 2012 Report Share Posted March 13, 2012 Don't start that way- bid 2♣ over 1♣.That denies a 4-card major, so you could easily miss a heart fit. 1♥ is the correct first bid. If you bid 4♣ over 2♣, GIB will just bid 5♣. I would probably bid Blackwood, GIB will show his one ace, and we'll play 6♣. It's a 50% slam (it just needs the ♠ finesse), so not a bad contract, but it doesn't make this time. GIB would bid 3NT with the South hand! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuburules3 Posted March 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 That denies a 4-card major, so you could easily miss a heart fit. 1♥ is the correct first bid. If you bid 4♣ over 2♣, GIB will just bid 5♣. I would probably bid Blackwood, GIB will show his one ace, and we'll play 6♣. It's a 50% slam (it just needs the ♠ finesse), so not a bad contract, but it doesn't make this time. GIB would bid 3NT with the South hand! If 2 diamonds is a forcing bid with diamonds, why can't 3 diamonds or 4 diamonds be a splinter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted March 15, 2012 Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 If 2 diamonds is a forcing bid with diamonds, why can't 3 diamonds or 4 diamonds be a splinter?One of them probably should be. It looks like GIB's bidding database doesn't have second-round splinters in it, so it thinks all of these are natural. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyunuS Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 I agree as you don't really need so many different natural diamonds bids that 3 or 4♦ being used as a splinter would probably be more useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgi Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 This is a sequence which is about to get improvement likely in the next GIB update1X - 1Y2X - 2Y or 2Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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