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Regular SAYC partnerships may find using this approach http://www.bridgeguy...f/MAGICCLUB.pdf beneficial to their minor suit openings. Partner knows on your first bid whether you hold a 4-card major or not (sure the opponents are given exactly the same info, but this is about you and not them). Regular partnerships can sit down and reach their own agreements as to how the bidding should continue (you are limited by your own creativity). This document can form the starting point for your continuation bidding structure.
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Minor System Adjustment (pun intentional) For SAYC Players
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Posted 2011-November-29, 07:37
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Posted 2011-November-29, 12:27
32519, on 2011-November-29, 07:37, said:
... Regular SAYC partnerships may find using this approach http://www.bridgeguy...f/MAGICCLUB.pdf beneficial to their minor suit openings.
Did you mean to say:
Regular SAYC partnerships may find using this approach completely changes their minor suit openings.
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Posted 2011-November-29, 18:26
This seems ridiculously bad to me.
Why would you want to know opener's exact point count? Wouldn't it be much more useful to know more about opener's distribution, or which suits he has honor strength/weakness in, or whether he has a "natural" 1m opening or a balanced hand?
The method also underestimates the importance of competing in a minor suit. It's true that majors are more important for game bidding, but the majority of auctions are competitive and being able to raise partner's minor is a huge advantage. You don't even get a benefit of knowing that one 1m opening has a four-card major and the other doesn't, because natural hands (i.e. 4M-6m) can be included in both calls. You're just splitting up your balanced hands in an arbitrary way that makes it much harder to compete in the bidding or to find your minor suit slams. I'd much rather open my longer/better minor, or alternatively put all the balanced hands without a long diamond suit into 1♣.
Why would you want to know opener's exact point count? Wouldn't it be much more useful to know more about opener's distribution, or which suits he has honor strength/weakness in, or whether he has a "natural" 1m opening or a balanced hand?
The method also underestimates the importance of competing in a minor suit. It's true that majors are more important for game bidding, but the majority of auctions are competitive and being able to raise partner's minor is a huge advantage. You don't even get a benefit of knowing that one 1m opening has a four-card major and the other doesn't, because natural hands (i.e. 4M-6m) can be included in both calls. You're just splitting up your balanced hands in an arbitrary way that makes it much harder to compete in the bidding or to find your minor suit slams. I'd much rather open my longer/better minor, or alternatively put all the balanced hands without a long diamond suit into 1♣.
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Posted 2011-November-30, 03:35
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