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Posted 2015-November-20, 13:27



RKCB or quantitative?
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Posted 2015-November-20, 13:37

This would be definitely be quant for me since 4m then 4N must be RKCB for spades.
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Posted 2015-November-20, 13:53

View Postbroze, on 2015-November-20, 13:37, said:

This would be definitely be quant for me since 4m then 4N must be RKCB for spades.

Surely 4♣ is natural here? I wasn't sure whether the standard meaning of 4♦ should be "diamonds" or "I like spades".
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Posted 2015-November-20, 13:59

4D should be a big raise to 4S. Agree that 4C is natural, and it looks to me like 4N is quant.
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Posted 2015-November-20, 14:13

View Postmgoetze, on 2015-November-20, 13:53, said:

Surely 4♣ is natural here? I wasn't sure whether the standard meaning of 4♦ should be "diamonds" or "I like spades".


Yes it probably is. I'm not really familiar with this art 3c treatment
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Posted 2015-November-20, 14:21

View Postbroze, on 2015-November-20, 14:13, said:

Yes it probably is. I'm not really familiar with this art 3c treatment

Eh it's just standard 2/1. Clubs or single-suited too strong for 3♠.
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Posted 2015-November-20, 15:33

View Postmgoetze, on 2015-November-20, 14:21, said:

Eh it's just standard 2/1. Clubs or single-suited too strong for 3♠.


I know what the convention is but not the followups. Now you have shown the spade single-suiter you don't have clubs most of the time anyway so you could argue why treat responder's minors differently. Okay opener is sometimes 6-4♠♣ - I suppose you may as well use 4C to catch this...
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Posted 2015-November-21, 02:55

View Postkuhchung, on 2015-November-20, 13:59, said:

4D should be a big raise to 4S. Agree that 4C is natural, and it looks to me like 4N is quant.


100 % this. If your options are 3N and 4N, and you have a way to raise the last bid suit (here 4D clearly is that), then 4N is quantitative.
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Posted 2015-November-21, 05:03

Opener:

1) ♠AKJ9xx ♥x ♦AQx ♣AQx
[a 2♣ opener?]
2) ♠AK9xxx ♥x ♦AQx ♣AQx
[hardly a 2♣ opener, or...?]

Responder:

a) ♠x ♥AKTxx ♦K9xx ♣Jxx
b) ♠x ♥ATxxx ♦K9xxx ♣Kx
c) ♠xx ♥ATxxx ♦K9x ♣Kxx
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Posted 2015-November-21, 09:04

View Postmgoetze, on 2015-November-20, 13:53, said:

Surely 4♣ is natural here? I wasn't sure whether the standard meaning of 4♦ should be "diamonds" or "I like spades".

4th suit at the 4 level is typically best used as a good raise. If Responder had wanted to introduce diamonds they could have done it the last time around. It is not like a quantitative 4NT rules out finding a diamond fit either assuming natural continuations rather than any sort of ace-showing (ie 5♦ now is usually going to be a max 6034).
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