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RCO (or Inverted CRO)


An obvious modification of CRO is to reverse the allocation for colour and rank.


thus:-


cue-bid   two suits of the same   Rank

2NT        two suits of the same   Colour

3          two suits                   Other


This method has much to commend it.


You are now able to show both majors at the two-level.

However, if your opponents open 1 or 1 then you must again bid 3 to show clubs and hearts, which is at least preferable to the three opening bids which produce this effect in inverted Ghestem.


For an evaluation of the methods considered on these pages see the page ‘General considerations and relative merits’.

Intermediate and above

Advancer’s next bid

Context - overcaller - opponents opened one of a suit - two-suited hands - artificial methods.