Modern American Bridge Bidding

About Strong Preemptive Competitive Conventions

Written by Keith Schwols in ModernSPC on Mon 01 January 2024. Tags: Intro, Rockstar, SPC, TRASH, TRAP, TransferAdvances,

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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Intro to Rockstar

Written by Keith Schwols in Rockstar on Mon 16 January 2023. Tags: Rockstar,

Rockstar is a transfer based modern 2/1 bidding system.

Unique elements:

  • Colorado 2, the 1 1/2 NT opener. Balanced hand with 18-19 HCP
  • MH 2S, the strong bid. Hands with 23+ points or 9+ quick tricks
  • Toucan 1 - 1 is 12-14 balanced hand or opening hand with 5 …

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Welcome

Written by Keith Schwols in About on Wed 09 December 2020. Tags: Rockstar,

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 …

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Sample Table

Written by Keith Schwols in testing on Mon 14 January 2013.

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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Rockstar Bridge developed by ROn sutton, Keith Schwols And Rick buck