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Bidding
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Following your opponents’ double your emphasis should be on disrupting their auction by bidding as high as you dare as quickly as possible whenever you have a good fit with partner in a weakish hand.
An early maxim was to bid one more than you would in the uncontested auction, thus you might have raised to two of partner’s suit with four-
This remains a simple and perfectly workable method although it is only rarely phrased in such succinct terms these days.
However, the underlying philosophy remains sound. It is generally recommended that you should at least be prepared to stretch your values in this situation.
The principle is considered further under
Your preemptive raises will need to be combined with one or more constructive options for when you hold a fit and at least invitational values.
Some thoughts are offered under
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with a particular emphasis on the 2NT high-
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This page last revised 3rd Feb 2022
Intermediate and above
For further constructive options you may well choose to combine the above with one or more of
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