We have covered opening 1 of a major bids (5+ card suit) with our new
bidding conventions nonForcingNT, Extensile2♣, GameForce2♦ and
Two Face 2♥, Compressed Bergen and others.
For minor suit opening bids we have covered the requirements for ToucanClub
and Macaw (Unbalanced) Diamond.
This section covers bidding Strong, Preemptive …
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In Modern American bidding, we define the minor suit openings to be
more restricted than Standard American or 2/1 bidding systems.
Opening 1♣ shows 1 of 2 types of hands:
- A balanced hand with 12-14 HCP (and no 5 card major). It may as few as 2 clubs in …
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In Modern American bidding we follow the best practices of Standard American and 2/1 bidding.
We open hands with 12-21 HCP and 5 or more cards in a major with 1 of that major.
It is in the responses to opening 1 of a major that Modern American shines …
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Opening with 11 HCP
Using our deal generation program, we see that roughly 80% of the times we open a hand 1♣, it is in the first category (11-14 HCP and balanced). You might be wondering about our opening range including 11 HCP. We are not requiring all 11 HCP …
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I'm Keith Schwols.
I started playing bridge in college, but didn't really take to bridge until I retired in 2016. I'm currently a Gold Life Master with the ACBL. I have a passion for 'tweaking' bridge bidding. The result was developing a system I'm calling Modern American. Contract Bridge is …
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Rockstar is a transfer based modern 2/1 bidding system.
Unique elements:
- Colorado 2♣, the 1 1/2 NT opener
- MH 2♦, the strong bid
- Transfers After 1♣ Opening
- The Macaw (unbalanced) 1♦ opening
- Non-forcing NT respondes to 1 of a major
- Extensile 2♣ response covers those cases previous using …
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==Using Markdown extension==
When writing we can type "!" and first character of suit name to generate ♣: clubs, ♦: diamonds, ♥: hearts, ♠ spades
We can insert hands inline with one pragma. Start with '!' and '{' and the keyword 'hand'. Then type in the hand in
pseudo .LIN format. E.g. SAKQ.HAKQ.DAKQ.CAKQJ …
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