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#21 User is offline   gnasher 

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Posted 2010-May-16, 05:46

So partner bids 2♠ which says almost nothing about his hand, and we bid 2NT which says almost nothing about our hand. At what point do we start exchanging information?

OK, I'm exagerating, but it does seem to me that we're using up a lot of space without saying very much.
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Posted 2010-May-16, 07:04

A very good player I know, obviously a little tongue in cheek, once told me "After a 2/1, opener rebids his suit, responder rebids 2NT, then the auction begins."

Anyway to correct your post, we are using up very little space without saying much, not a lot of space. And we still haven't bypassed anything you would want to say anyway.
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Posted 2010-May-16, 07:58

We are also saying a few things with the 2NT - that is, what we didn't say.
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Posted 2010-May-16, 09:41

It doesn't use up that much space, and by playing these methods, if partner does not bid 2S or we don't bid 3D, it gives a lot more information. Of course, once again it is clear that opener shouldn't use 2S as the catch all bid but the cheapest step, and responder shouldn't then jump to 2NT but again bid the cheapest step.
and the result can be plotted on a graph.
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Posted 2010-May-16, 10:06

2NT or 3♣ or 3♦. I feel in practice they're probably all equivalent...
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Posted 2010-May-16, 11:10

2N for me too.

3♣ overemphasizes clubs and 3♦ preempts our side and makes 3N hard to reach.
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Posted 2010-May-16, 12:20

Fluffy, on May 16 2010, 06:23 AM, said:

as long as the opponents don't make -25 tricks you should be ok

Well, I don't know about you but my opponents always seem to lead 4th best from their 22-card suits, which makes it really problematic that I can take 38 before they get back in and run and run and run and run and run their suit.
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