The opener has club in 3-3-3-4 shapeĥ ♦ – Pass. The opener has diamond and spade but no heart, the sole major held by the responder.ģNT – Pass. The Convention: the responder bids 3♣ (asking), thence both opener and responder bid their four card suits at lowest level, denying the ones jumped and not ruling out those still biddable. It is not meaningless that Leo Baron put the opening 2NT at the end of the book, in the chapter dedicated to slams, where the opening frequently does flow.Ī note about the opening itself: 2NT should be in the range 21-22 the lesser the strength the more the risk of getting the double, which over 2NT is always punitive, whether direct or balancing.
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The pro of investigating upon all suits looks clear if we take a glance to the following two examples:
Therefore the third suit forcing bid is not natural, as many think, and has to be alerted. Leeds).Ī note: the Baron-Meredith System also presented the “third suit forcing” convention, as The authors, the Englishmen Leo Baron and Adam Meredith, published it in their book: “The Baron System of Contract Bridge”. The Baron convention is a simple tool to ascertain all the opener’s four card suits – not only majors – when the opening is 2NT or stronger, as 2♣ followed by NT rebid at the due level according to the strength.
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