akwoo Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 Doesn't seem a good idea to help identify good leads for opponents. And not just good leads, but knowledge of your (concealed) hand and shape all through the play. Transfer breaking is useful when partner has a marginal game hand, and when he does, the diamond knowledge may not be much help. When he doesn't, and will pass, or would have bid game anyway, it is a definite downside. I prefer showing a second suit to showing a small doubleton; the two are about equally useful to partner, but the second suit is usually about half as useful to the opps as the doubleton. (The small doubleton tells them what to lead. The second suit tells them what not to lead, and, excluding trump, they still have two choices.) If you want to go through the trouble of a system where opener gives uninformative transfer breaks and responder shows if interested in game, that's better, but it's also a good deal of memory load for something not very frequent. Otherwise, I think it's a general principle that invites revealing strengths are better than invites revealing weaknesses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromageGB Posted March 30, 2013 Report Share Posted March 30, 2013 Responder doesn't transfer with a 4432 :unsure:So you spotted it! 5224 of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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