This Week in Bridge Practice Hands
Responder's Bidding Tools - XYZ
When the auction begins 1X – 1Y – 1NT (where X and Y are different suit bids), the modern treatment is to play Two-Way New Minor Forcing. This approach uses both 2♣* and 2♦* as artificial and forcing bids by Responder. 2♦* is an artificial game forcing bid, while 2♣* is generally used to start invitational bidding sequences.
XYZ is a convention that is an extension of this approach in other auctions that start with three bids at the 1-level. Let’s look at the details of how this can improve our bidding.
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