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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Subject: Re: Some questions about 2 over 1.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.223008.1744@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:30:08 GMT
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- In article <1juues$pt9@agate.berkeley.edu> grove@triangle.Berkeley.EDU (Eddie Grove) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.014140.13052@linus.mitre.org> bs@fatima.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
- >
- >[Talking about responder's rebid after 1S - 2C; 2D/2H - ?]
- >
- >>:Another way to play it is that 3s shows 3 card support with extras. If you had
- >>:4 card support with extras, you would have bid Jacoby NT, Inverted Trump Swiss,
- >
- >>Jacoby with a good biddable 5 card suit? Never. e.g.
- >
- >>Kxxx
- >>Ax
- >>xx
- >>AKQxx
- >>
- >>Should ALWAYS bid 2C to show the suit, then support spades. This is much
- >>more descriptive of the hand.
- >They are also not Hugh Kelsey's opinions, nor Marty Bergen's.
-
- Kelsey? He is not a 2/1 GF guru and while Bergen might be considered to
- be, his bidding is not considered mainstream by many U.S. experts.
- Many of his ideas are SUPERB, and I have adopted many of them. Many
- of them I totally dislike. [Sort of like A. Roth, come to think of it!]
-
- The trick taking potential of a good 5 card side suit is enormous.
- Furthermore, 2NT takes up a lot of room, so I believe the more sharply
- you narrow its definition, the more useful I believe it will be.
- I believe it is best used as a balanced, forcing raise, always with
- 4 card support AND it denies a good biddable 5-card side suit. Otherwise,
- you simply start with a 2/1 in that suit and support spades later.
-
- --
- Bob Silverman
- These are my opinions and not MITRE's.
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