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#21 User is offline   patroclo 

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Posted 2016-February-11, 13:25

View Postpatroclo, on 2016-January-28, 08:23, said:

Many thanks. I order it

Not a great book
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Posted 2016-February-12, 02:31

View PostfromageGB, on 2016-January-26, 10:46, said:

I've never seen one, and I doubt if there is one. So much depends on agreements, and for any single given hand while one system/method/convention may give best results, if you alter the deal even a little, a different s/m/c will give best results. It seems a very impractical idea for a book.

Now someone prove me wrong ...

Well, there are books and documents about these issues in general.
For example many recommend that supporting partner is most likely to be what partner wants to hear, and I do not know any source recommending a 1 spade bid above.
In fact there are enough examples in literature advising to raise immediately with 3 hearts and 4 and even 5 spades.
There were those who argued that we need more ways of raising partner. e.g Hardy wrote a book about this.
One (contentious) outcome are Bergen raises and differentiations between 3 card and 4 card raises.
Drury is of course ideal when you hold a minimum limit raise like above, because you can stop at the two level.
Some have incorporated Drury in all seats, not least for this reason, but for most Drury is only available for passed hands.

I feel most of these issues have been discussed in the literature extensively, mostly in books for intermediate players and by examples often in quizzes.
So what the opener is aiming at is still not clear to me.
It's a myth that this is a new subject or method.

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Posted 2016-February-12, 12:47

The book you are looking for is Robson & Segal's "Partnership Bidding at Bridge"
Chaper 1 is "Support with support: the theory"
Chapter 2 is "Support with support in practice"
This takes you up to page 82
It goes on to page 234 on pressure bidding and competing with and without known fits.

It is the most influential best bridge book I have read.
May 2003: Mission accomplished
Oct 2006: Mission impossible
Soon: Mission illegal
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