Competitive Bidding: Overcoming Interference
Discussion
- When the opponent's make Defensive Bid
that interfers with your normal responses, you need to alter
your respones.
- In some cases, the opponent's bid will take up most of the
bidding space and you need to make the best guess for a bid
with the few bids remaining.
- In some cases, the opponent's bid will not take up much
space and there bid will give you alternates (double and cuebid)
to be more descriptive.
- In some cases, the opponent's bid will tell you about features
in their hand that will lead you to the best final contract.
Approach:
- You can make a normal raise of openers suit. You use
a cuebid of overcaller's suit to make your raise more
descriptive.
- You can make the normal new suit or notrump response
(sometimes, referred to as a Free Bid). You can
use a double (called a Negative Double) to make
your responses more descriptive.
- You can pass the normal hands (0-4 HCPs). You can
also pass hands with (5-7 HCPs) that you would have
"streched" to bid with no interference. That is
why a new suit or notrump response is called
a Free Bid. A bid at the 1-level is bid "freely",
so it shows more than the very minimum response
that a normal response might show.
Guidelines
- Vulnerability is important
- Non-vulnerable: be agressive
- Vulnerable: be cautious - penalty for not
making your contract is high (doubled or undoubled).
- Opponents bid and raise a suit
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