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Mon 5^th 1^st Johan & Dave H 59% 2^nd Ian B & Kenneth 54%

Wed 7^th 1^st Alan P & Terje 63% 2^nd Arnawood & Sally 60%

Fri 9^th 1^st Johan & Terje 69% 2^nd Niels & Jan 58%

Bidding Quiz

Hand A Hand B With Hand A RHO opens 1♠, what do you bid?

♠ KJ9 ♠ AQ54

♥ QJ74 ♥ 10652 With Hand B LHO opens 1♠ and partner bids 1NT, what do

♦ AK6 ♦ 7 you bid?

♣ K95 ♣ 8763

Bidding Sequence Quiz

C 1♠ dbl pass 1NT How many points is 1NT? 0-9 or 6-9?

D 2♥ pass 2♠ 2♥ is weak, is 2♠ forcing or weak. What is it if you play Acol

with weak twos?

E 1♣ dbl pass 1♠ Is 2♥ a strong ♥ hand or a two-suiter with ♥’s and also ♦’s?

pass 2♥

General chit-chat

On Monday 5^th there was the usual chat over brunch.

2NT over partner’s weak two opening

Dave mentioned a hand where he opened a weak 2♥ and partner bid 2NT. Having not discussed the meaning of 2NT Dave jumped to 4♥ as he was maximum with good ♥’s. This got a good score and the conversation then turned to what 2NT should mean. There are two options here: show a feature or Ogust (show strength).

Somebody then chipped in that 2NT is the only forcing bid over a weak two. I stated categorically that this was untrue, a new suit being forcing. I went on to say that RONF (Raise the Only Non Forcing bid) was standard, i