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This Week in Bridge is Robert’s lesson series. Each month has a topic (and sometimes that topic continues across two months, making a mini-course). You can download each lesson as a WORD document or view online as a PDF by clicking on the link next to each title.

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(522) NT Auctions: 2S Size Ask Response
Bidding, Constructive: Opener, Constructive: Responder
NT Auctions, 8
(522) NT Auctions: 2S Size Ask Response
Bidding, Constructive: Opener, Constructive: Responder
NT Auctions, 8

When we respond to partner's 1NT opening it is nice to have transfer bids available. Here we look at an upgrade to 4-suited Transfers, called Size Ask, and see how it improves our bidding.

Bidding, Constructive: Opener, Constructive: Responder
NT Auctions, 8
(521) NT Auctions: Responder's 2S Rebid After Stayman
Bidding, Constructive: Responder
NT Auctions, 7
(521) NT Auctions: Responder's 2S Rebid After Stayman
Bidding, Constructive: Responder
NT Auctions, 7

We can use a Stayman response, followed by a 2S rebid to show an invitational hand with length in the majors. But this bidding sequence can be useful with other invitational hands as well. Let’s see how else it can be used.

Bidding, Constructive: Responder
NT Auctions, 7
(520) NT Auctions: Opponents' Doubles of Our Stayman and Transfers
Bidding, Competitive: Doubles, Constructive: Opener
NT Auctions, 6, 8
(520) NT Auctions: Opponents' Doubles of Our Stayman and Transfers
Bidding, Competitive: Doubles, Constructive: Opener
NT Auctions, 6, 8

When we open a NT and partner uses an artificial conventional responses, like Stayman or Transfers, then the opponents might double as lead directing. We want to use this double against them. Here we discuss our options for bidding after this double.

Bidding, Competitive: Doubles, Constructive: Opener
NT Auctions, 6, 8