Welcome
Welcome to the Rockstar Bridge website. The focus of this site is to document and write about a new system of bidding in Bridge. Standard American and 2/1 are good systems, but both have issues. Standard American is a very solid, basic system, but doesn't have good systems to deal with most modern, tournament auctions. 2/1 improves the Standard American, but has some obvious issues with how it combines so many hands/auctions into the Garbage Forcing NT. Also, a low-level (2-level) game force bid is good, but why have so many of them (6+ in fact).
Modern American Bridge (which we dub Rockstar) is a transfer-based modern 2/1 bidding system. We think it is more suited to competitive (tournament) bridge auctions, easier to learn and remember than lots of gadgets in the 2/1 bidding system (especially if you hear your partner apologize for forgetting Drury, a Splinter or other infrequent bids)
A quick overview of the Modern American
Modern American bridge is broken down into 3 major subsections
- Opening and responding to 1 of a Major
- Bidding with Strong, Preemptive and Competive hands
- Opening and responding to a minor 1♣ or 1♦
The category links in the top menu will show articles on these subsections and the category Rockstar contains general blogs, examples and discussions about Rockstar bidding
You can read/subscribe the Article Blog for an chronological feed of all articles on the site.
The tag cloud in the sidebar links information about Bridge conventions (both in Rockstar and other bridge systems)
Enjoy improving your bridge game!