[gwnn]

Does anyone know where the notes for this system are? I could only find their CC. Their opening structure looks *much* more intelligent than any other canape system I found*! I heard somewhere that it's readily available somewhere but apparently not to me. I would prefer if there were no Santa Claus references on the website.

*vs Caroline Club they retain one weak two and don't open 1♦ on balanced hands anymore. Also forcing NT and 2/1 GF sounds better than the relatively contrived 2/1 structure in Caroline.

[JanM]

As far as I know, there is nothing published on this system. You can find a more current convention card by looking at Ekeblad-Rubin in the Senior Bowl in Brazil (unfortunately, when I went to the ECATS site to get the URL for this, there was an error), but here's the Ekeblad-Granovetter card from Beijing, which is also more recent than Sukoneck-Ekeblad. For the USBF System Summary Form, see Ekeblad-Weichsel from last year's USBC.

[PrecisionL]

I have been following Ekeblad - Sukoneck for some time now as their system evolves. They were in BW Challenge the Champs in Jan 91 and Feb - Mar 93 playing Neapolitan type responses to Strong Club and canape and various 2 openings to cover gaps in the system. A more recent BW appearance may have happened, I am behind in my indexing CTC.

I have all their convention cards and notes, but nothing else has appeared on the web as far as I know.

We (KeyLime and I) use Sabine Aukens' approach to a Strong Club (I Love This Game).

We gave up control responses years ago and recently (2 years) we even gave up Beta asks to transfer positives.

http://www.bridgeguys.com/pdf/CarolineClub...eckEkelblad.pdf

Ekeblad - Rubin in CTC: July - Aug 2007:

Big Club with transfer & other artificial responses, weak NT, natural suit openings from 1♦ to 2♣  with a canape tendency, and specialized responding techniques after each. Some 2-bids help to cover weak spots in the one-bid structure (analogously to Flannery): 2♦ shows a minimum-range opening bid with 5+♥ and 4+♦, 2♥ a similar hand with 5+♥ and 4+♣. Constructive bidding often uses relays: cheap, non-descriptive bids that ask partner to continue telling about his hand.