Rubin Advanced

[yfyh1297]

who can introduce this convention？

[nullve]

who can introduce this convention？

It's called Rubens advances.

[Stephen Tu]

I'll take an educated guess, and believe you actually mean "Rubens advances" aka transfer advances of overcalls. You can search this forum and generally the web for info.

Basically after 1x an and a simple overcall, use bids starting with the cue bid as transfers showing the next higher suit; one under the suit is the limit+ raise, e.g. (1d)-1s-(p)-2h is a strong spade raise. The transfers end at that point; raising the overcall is just normal single raise. This allows you, depending on how much space is available, to be able to show other suits and varying levels of strength because you will get a 2nd chance to bid; with natural advances you have to play them as non-forcing or forcing. With transfers you can transfer then raise to invite, transfer then support partner's suit at various levels, transfer then bid NT, etc.

 

So 1d-(1s)-p-?

• 1nt/2c natural
• 2c non-forcing or forcing by agreement
• 2d: hearts
• 2h: strong spade raise
• 2s: min spade raise.

1c-(1s)-p-?

• 1nt: natural NF
• 2c: diamonds
• 2d: hearts
• 2h: strong spade raise
• 2s: min spade raise

The overcaller does not have to accept the transfer, basically he responds with what he would bid opposite a non-forcing constructive bid of the suit shown.

[yfyh1297]

Thank you for all responses. I saw it from a convention card from ecatsbridge，However，it do not include overcall. The link is as followed，http://info.ecatsbridge.com/Systems/2011WorldTeams-Netherlands/BermudaBowl/China/li-liu.pdf

it emerges in page three ，the first page about supplymentary notes.

[Stephen Tu]

So it looks the Chinese pair adapted similar transfer principles to a couple uncontested strong club sequences, developing their own gadget, and bastardized the name. There is no convention really named "Rubin advanced". There is Jeff Rubens, who writes a lot/edits/publishes Bridge World magazine and has the transfer advances named after him. There are also two "Rubin" in bridge, Ira Rubin and Ron Rubin, but there is no convention associated with those people with that name, and I don't think with that particular sequence.

If you want precise continuations on their sequence you should probably ask in Chinese section of this forum or Chinese bridge forum, giving the sequence 1c-1d;1h-1s;2c, and 1c-1d-1s-1nt;2c, not the name which probably only invites confusion.