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gnasher, on Jan 8 2010, 04:25 AM, said:
jeremy69, on Jan 6 2010, 07:20 PM, said:
If you play 2S for clubs and 2NT for diamonds it is both more common and better(IMO) to play 3c and 3D as the fit bid and 2NT and 3C as denying the fit.
Strange. Jeremy and I live in the same city, play at the same club, and play in most of the same events, but in my experience it's more common to use the intermediate step to show the better hand.
As for which is better, it depends partly on your requirements for showing the better hand: you should aim to maximise the frequency of opener's playing the hand when responder is signing off. If you often show a fit, you should play it Jeremy's way; if you rarely show a fit you should play it the other way.
Probably correct in theory, but in practice only the better players (amongst which I include all of Andy, David and Jeremy) are likely to choose for technical merit. Of the club players in England who play full transfers, the vast majority (IMO) play that completion of the transfer denies a fit, just to avoid memory strain - other transfer breaks show something extra in terms of the anchor suit, so they play the intermediate bid over the transfer to a minor to show the better fit. The fact that the logic is different because the transfer "break" is below the cheapest level of the anchor suit doesn't come into it.