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How to continue 1S - 1NT - 2NT finding the 5-3 heart fit

#21 User is offline   hrothgar 

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Posted 2008-February-07, 14:18

I 'd actually like to focus on a more constrained issue:

In general, when I see discussion about "New Minor Forcing" it refers to a structure over a 1NT rebid, not a 1NT response

For example

1♦ - 1♠
1N - 2♣

is New Minor Forcing

1♠ - 1N
2♣

is a very different auction. I think that it would be a mistake to use the same expression to refer to both 2m bids.

Calling the second 2♣ bid New Minor Forcing is decided non-standard usage and is only going to confuse people.
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Posted 2008-February-07, 22:05

skaeran, on Feb 7 2008, 01:52 PM, said:

Do most people in the rest of the world play 2NT as 18-19 here?
In Norway it's standard among top players to play 2NT as a conventional GF. Not sure for how long, but it's probably like 15 years since I started playing that.

Ditto here. But, if you do play it as 18-19 (actually, 17-18 probably), then...
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Posted 2008-February-08, 03:51

Thanks for your responses.

I think i'll keep it simple and play 3♣/♦ non forcing and 3♥ forcing with 5 hearts, as suggested several times.
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