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#1 User is offline   arnoldson 

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Posted 2018-May-30, 09:43

Assuming 1 is 1 of:-

11-13 balanced
11-15 with 6+
11-15 with and with longer (includes 5-6)
11-15 with exactly 4M and a longer minor (includes all 4441s and 5440s with 5m).


what continuations are recommended? 1 = natural or relay? If so, is 1 limited? I'm no good at designing relays efficiently. Any help would be appreciated.

edit: rest of system is a version of precision:-
1M = 5+ 11-15
2 opening = no major, 6+ or 5+ with 4+
1NT = 14-16
2 - i want to reserve this for weak majors.
it might seem odd not to play 2 natural and 2 for the majors, but having tried both, 2 works far better in my experience.

This is for play in WBF events, so regulations shouldn't be a problem.
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Posted 2018-May-30, 11:06

What do you open with 4441s? 5C440s? 5D440s? 5D/6C?, 5D/5C?

What are your 2C and 2D openings?
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Posted 2018-May-30, 13:49

View Postarnoldson, on 2018-May-30, 09:43, said:

Assuming 1 is 1 of:-

11-13 balanced
11-15 with 6+
11-15 with and with longer
11-15 with exactly 4M and a longer minor

what continuations are recommended? 1 = natural or relay? If so, is 1 limited? I'm no good at designing relays efficiently. Any help would be appreciated.

This is for play in WBF events, so regulations shouldn't be a problem.


This 1 looks very similar to Miles' Unbalanced diamond (except for the balanced hand option). What are the rest of the openings?
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Posted 2018-May-31, 16:48

I edited the original post to add more info
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Posted 2018-May-31, 21:41

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Posted 2018-June-02, 09:05

View Postarnoldson, on 2018-May-30, 09:43, said:

Assuming 1 is 1 of:-

11-13 balanced
11-15 with 6+
11-15 with and with longer (includes 5-6)
11-15 with exactly 4M and a longer minor (includes all 4441s and 5440s with 5m).


what continuations are recommended? 1 = natural or relay? If so, is 1 limited? I'm no good at designing relays efficiently. Any help would be appreciated.

edit: rest of system is a version of precision:-
1M = 5+ 11-15
2 opening = no major, 6+ or 5+ with 4+
1NT = 14-16
2 - i want to reserve this for weak majors.
it might seem odd not to play 2 natural and 2 for the majors, but having tried both, 2 works far better in my experience.

This is for play in WBF events, so regulations shouldn't be a problem.

If one starts with

1 = modern Precision 1 or 2
2 = modern Precision 2 (so 6+ C)
2 = Ekren

and then decides that Ekren 2 would be more effective, it's tempting to try

1 = modern Precision 1 or 2, but with minor suits reversed, so often 5+ C if unBAL (and less often 5+ D)
2 = Ekren
2 = moden Precision 2, but with minor suits reversed (so 6+ D).

Is that what you did?

The new 2 opening is ok (and identical to IMprecision's), but because 2 over 1-1M is now a kind of reverse (with respect to Opener's likely long suit, clubs), Opener will usually have one fewer rebid below 2 of his long minor than in modern Precision, so decribing minimum hands without support ought to be even harder. Is that part of the reason your 2 opening also includes 11-15 hands with 5D4+C? I'm not sure that solves more problems than it creates, since you could also use the "reverse" into 2 over 1-1M to show 11-15, 2-M5+D4+C and not be higher. But at least by opening 2 instead of 1 with this hand type you share your problem with opps (who now face an intermediate strength preempt), which is often a good thing.

You also include 11-15, 4M6+D in 1 opening, making it even more nebuloous. I don't mind that at all, but standard responses and rebids become unplayable at some point. So in the "Nebulous 1D (SOLVED)" thread my solution (post #26) was a structure with more focus on Responder than Opener on partscore deals. The basic idea was

1-?:

1 = "S"
...1 = 3-S3-H OR MAX w/ SUPP [corrected]
......1N = "4S4-H or 53(32), NF" [corrected]
......2 = "weak, either 5S4+C or 5233" OR INV w/ 5 S (Gazzzilli!) [corrected]
......2 = "weak, 5S4+D"
......2 = "weak, 5S4+H" [corrected]
......2 = "weak, 6 S"
......(...)
...1N = MIN, 3-S4H
...(...)
1 = "weak Flannery" OR "no major" OR "IJS in a M" OR "any GF"
...1N = MIN, most hands
......P = < GF, no major
......2 = GF relay
......2 = weak, Flannery
......2M = "IJS" in M
......(...)
...2+ = (usually) MAX and such that it's possible to get out in 2M opposite "weak Flannery"
1N = "3-S4H or 35(32), NF" [corrected]
2 = "weak, either 5H4+C or 2533" OR INV w/ 5 H (Gazzilli!) [corrected]
2 = "weak, 5H4+D"
2 = "weak, 6 H"
(...)

I remember bidding lots of hands with this structure, and it seemed promising, but I know many posters here would like (a lot) more space for relays.

This post has been edited by nullve: 2018-June-02, 12:47

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Posted 2018-June-03, 05:57

The nebulous 1 opening showing weak NT or unbalanced with 4M and 4+m is fairly popular in Sweden. Here you're adding unbalanced hands with clubs too, so it might be a slight overload. I think you could work something out if you play the 1 response as "hearts or relay", but it'll probably be harder after the 1 response. Perhaps you could do something similar to Nilsson - Stokka: http://www.svenskbri...cculfadam18.pdf They use:

1 = 15+
1 = Including unbalanced hands without a four card major, and 4441 hands and 5m440 hands.
2M = 10-14 with 4M and 5+ minor

Perhaps something like this could be possible:

1 = 15+ if primary minor, 16+ if primary major, 17+ if balanced
1 = 11-13 NT or 10-14 unbal without a major, or 10-14 4441/5m440
1M = 11-15 5+M
1NT = 14-16
2 = Weak both majors
2 = Weak one major
2M = 10-14 4M and 5+m
2NT = 10-14 6-4/4-6 minors
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