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- From: grove@triangle.Berkeley.EDU (Eddie Grove)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: two simple sequences
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:34:43 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Consider the defensive bidding sequence
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- (1D) - 1S - P - 2D*
- 2H 2N
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- * in the modern style, new suits are not forcing, so 2D is used
- for most decent hands
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- How does this differ from an immediate 2N? Is it a difference
- of hcp? Are the points the same, but direct 2N shows better
- diamonds? Does either sequence promise or deny 2 spades or
- 3 spades?
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- Consider this offensive sequence
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- 1N - 2C
- 2S - 3S
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- Responder, when bidding 2C, needed to have enough strength
- to play in 2N if s/he did not find a fit. When you add a
- 4-4 fit to the strength to play 2N, it seems to me that
- you have the strength to play game in the major.
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- For example, when playing 2/1 forcing to 2N, the auction
- 1S - 2C; 2H - 3H is generally played as forcing.
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- Doesn't it make sense to define the raise by Staymaner as forcing?
- It only gains you that 3H is not needed as an artificial raise,
- but why give a sequence a meaning that makes it almost never used?
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- Eddie Grove
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