Thursday, Feb 11

Tonight we discussed a way to deal with the opponents' interference over partner's opening 1NT.  This is a very, vary simplified version of Lebensohl - to which we will slowly add more of its components.

Levels of Interference:

1NT - (X) = SYSTEMS ON:  The opponent's haven't really eaten up any of our space, so we ignore the double and bid as normal.

1NT - (2C) = SYSTEMS ON:  They only took one bid this time, so we can use Double to say "that's what I wanted to bid" and keep all our other bids as they were.  (i.e., 1NT - (2C) - X = Stayman)

1NT - (2D/2H/2S) = now we've lost our transfers, so we get sent into the simplified Lebensohl system we discussed:

Responses:

2-level bids are NATURAL and non-forcing, non-invitational.

3-level bids are NATURAL and GAME FORCING, showing 5-cards.

X = invitational values, no stopper in the opponents' suit

2NT = invitational values with a stopper

[Changing the meaning of the 2NT bid and CUEBIDDING the opponents' suit are the next two steps to add towards Lebensohl]

:)