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Does anybody do this any more 4 card transfers over 1N

#1 User is offline   Cyberyeti 

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Posted 2014-July-11, 03:52

Spawned by some discussion in the "Where do bad players get their ideas from" thread about methods over 1N.

20+ years ago I seem to remember that one of the top Italian pairs used to use 4 card transfers over 1N. We used 4+ card inv or better red suit transfers over a wide range (11-16 1st/2nd, 14-19 3rd/4th) no trump with some success, does anybody do this any more ?
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Posted 2014-July-11, 04:23

In Italy I got a standard convention card template where one of the conventions one could "check" was canape-style transfers. So apparantly they have some popuarity there.

I think Heeman comes up occasonaly if you play tournaments in NL or Belgium. I played it for a while with Shogi, if it wasn't because we switched to an artificial 1NT opening, we would probably still use it. I like it better than standard transfers. It tends to leak less info about opener's hand.
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Posted 2014-July-11, 04:35

The Scanian NT structure also uses transfers that show 4+ card suits.
The only time you transfer with a 4 card suit is when you hold invitational or better values
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Posted 2014-July-11, 05:32

Older versions of MICS used them, as well.
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Posted 2014-July-11, 07:58

I think Brian Callaghan & Chris Duckworth use them.
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Posted 2014-July-20, 17:56

There is also the ETM Weak/Mini system that is based on 2-under asks. Ben allows (or did last time I looked) 4 hearts for his 2 transfer but the 2 transfer is always 5+. Both of these ideas seem to me to based on sound principles although I also see nothing wrong with 5+ card transfers; it is all just a matter of how you want to collect together the hand types.
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Posted 2014-July-21, 17:29

I did get this transfer from Ashton Bridgematters page. Transferring into a four card suits draws directors calls nearlly every time you table dummy.

Currently not using it, but still like it a lot.
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Posted 2014-July-22, 16:50

I play one 4-card transfer: 1NT-2; 2-2 is "invitational, both majors 44, 54, or 55. Will only have 4 hearts unless 5-5."

We follow the same procedure as: "An Announcement also is used for those methods that initially treat the bid as a transfer even though rarely the bidder will have a strong hand without the next higher suit. When the message is sent that the transfer was not a transfer, just the first step in showing another type of game-going hand, the call that sends that message must be Alerted." even though we don't have a game force, and we actually promise 4 hearts. If I "expected" 4+cards, I probably would Alert, never mind the regulation. That would increase the number of questions, but decrease the number of director calls (not remove them, of course; people will ask if it's legal.)
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