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The idea of forcing

#21 User is offline   newroad 

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Posted 2016-October-11, 01:38

Hi Shevek,

My guess is that a speculative pass would be better in 3rd (with LHO not yet having confirmed the inability to open) than in 4th, a priori.

I have done similar a few times in a context where Pass promised a 3+♣ 1♣ opening a few times. Never missed a game, as I recall - in general mixed marginally positive net results. Of course, suit lengths as well as strength play a part in the judgement for my scenario.

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Posted 2016-October-11, 02:25

View Postnullve, on 2016-October-07, 07:45, said:

After 1♣-(1♠) I've long been faking "system on" in the sense that

As a junior I played X as a 1♥ response and 1NT as a 1♦ response saying nothing about spades. It is simple and therefore not a bad method for beginning players. Your method seems to combine most of the disadvantages with complexity, which is probably not optimal for most pairs.
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