[DJNeill]

Hi all,
The full WJ2005 book in English can be found here.

Thanks,
Dan

[MickyB]

Cheers dude. Anyone know if this is starting to take over from WJ2000 on BBO?

[scoob]

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[scoob]

see my now edited last post

[Gerben42]

Great work. But playing with me PLEASE with the old 2-bid structure (Wilkosz & Weak 2s).

Poor Andrzej Wilkosz...

[Antoine Fourrière]

At first sight, I prefer WJ2000. I think weak notrumps with diamonds do better if they are opened 1♣. With five-four in the minors, you can now rebid 1N with five diamonds and four clubs (or a 1444) and 2♣ with five clubs and four diamonds.

As for Wilkosz, I am all for opening these hands, but I think the same opening (both natural and multi have their pros and cons) should be used with a six-card major and with the Wilkosz hand type. I resent much more having to open 1♣ the rare 4=4=1=4 and the rare unbalanced game force or being unable to show at once a long club suit.

Being dogmatic about quick pattern disclosure, I would prefer something like
1♣ either a weak NT or 15-21 with clubs (usually a 5431 or a 6331) or 18+ balanced
1♦ unbalanced with diamonds
1♥, 1♠ five cards, preferably unbalanced
1N strong, preferably a two-point range
2♣ 11-14 with five clubs and a four-card major
2♦ 7-10 with a six-card major or a five-card major and another five-card suit
2♥ Precision three-suiter, but also NV/V a bad three-level preempt in any suit
2♠ 11-21 with six clubs (quite unbalanced if 15-21)
2N unbalanced game force which runs the risk of a pass if you open with a one-bid

Another possibility would be
1♣ either a weak NT or 15-21 with clubs (usually a 5431) or 18+ balanced
1♦ unbalanced with diamonds
1♥, 1♠ five cards, preferably unbalanced
1N strong, preferably a two-point range
2♣ 11-14 with five clubs and a four-card major
2♦ either a weak-two bid in hearts (yes, responder often can't preempt) or a Precision three-suiter (yes, opener will have to rebid 2♠) or an unbalanced game force (yes, you wreak havoc on your own system)
2♥ 11-21 with six clubs
2♠ 7-10 with six spades or five spades and a five-card minor (shuts off hearts)
2N 7-10 with five hearts and another five-card suit (shuts off their spades)

Other permutations might be better, but it seems more important to convey the distributional nature of your hand when you have an opening bid than to gain some extra steps for uncommon hand types.

[david_c]

Antoine Fourrière, on May 20 2005, 08:56 AM, said:

I resent much more having to open 1♣ the rare 4=4=1=4

Personally I think that the 1♣ opening handles this hand rather well. You have an easy rebid whatever partner does (you're never forced to rebid 1NT), and the hand is not far from being balanced anyway. The fact that partner cannot rely on a doubleton diamond makes little difference, because the stronger options of 1♣ don't promise any diamonds either.

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and the rare unbalanced game force

The "strong club" hands in Polish cover much more than just the game-forcing ones. The book gives 18+ as a guideline, and gives some examples where a 1♣ opening is preferred on even weaker hands. So really they're not that rare at all. Of course, you may decide you prefer to open 1♦, 1♥ or 1♠ with hands in the 18-21 range, in which case you're playing a rather different system.