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The 1NT bid tends to shut out the opponents and make partner cautious at the same time.
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1NT and bid
In the card game contract bridge, Stayman is a convention used by a partnership to find a 4-4 or 5-3 trump fit in a suit after making a one ( 1NT ) opening bid ; it has been adapted for use after a 2NT opening, a 1NT overcall and many other natural notrump bids.
After an opening bid or an overcall of 1NT ( 2NT ), responder bids 2 ( 3 ) ( artificial ) to ask opener or overcaller to bid a four card major suit headed by a Queen minimum if he has one.
This bid promises four cards in at least one of the major suits and, in standard form, enough strength to continue bidding after partner's response ( 8 HCP for an invitational bid opposite a standard 1NT showing 15-17 HCP or 5 HCP to go to game opposite a standard 2NT showing 20-21 points ).
" Garbage " Stayman and " Crawling " Stayman are adaptations of Stayman frequently used for damage control when holding a weak hand opposite a 1NT opening bid.
Other popular Precison variations on opening bids are using a strong 1NT ( 14-16 is most common ), using 2 to show only a 6 + club suit and expanding the possible hand patterns for the 2 bid to include the usual 4-4-1-4 and 4-4-0-5 as well as 4-3-1-5 and 3-4-1-5.
Hands without an opening bid ( generally 12 + high card points ) are required to respond 1NT to 1, or to 1 if they lack 4 spades.
Conventions like Landy, DONT, Lionel and CoCa can be used to denote a two suiter over an opposing 1NT bid.
However, it is still widely used for NT contracts, thus 1NT – 2NT is invitational to bid game in 3NT
* Stayman convention – At its simplest a 2 response is used following an opening bid of 1NT to enquire whether opener has a 4-card major suit.
In standard bidding, the response of 1NT to an opening bid of 1 or 1 shows 6 to 9 high card points and is non-forcing.
Playing the forcing notrump, however, it is sometimes tactically advantageous to bid 1NT with this hand and then correct to 2 of opener's major.
If responder wishes to know further about the 1NT bid, she asks with 2.
The transfer procedure is quite simple and is described first in response to your partner's 1NT opening bid.
Since a 1NT opening bid requires a balanced hand, i. e. no more than one doubleton, it promises to have at least two cards in the desired suit ):
Instead of preempting in diamonds, South can bid 1NT to confuse matters, running to diamonds if doubled.
1NT and opponents
Opener, with a balanced minimum, may pass the 1NT response and, if the opponents also pass, that will become the contract.
Example: ( opponents passing ) 1 < span style =" color: red ">♥</ span > – 1NT ; 2 ♣ – ?.
1NT and make
* The 1NT has a wide range ( 13-17 ), which has an advantage of forcing defenders to wait for one round before knowing whether it is the strong or the weak NT, which can make their competing for a part score difficult.
1NT and partner
One's left hand opponent passes, one's partner bids 1NT ( 15-17 ), and one's right hand opponent passes.
Since the 1NT response is forcing, hands with a three-card limit raise can start with 1NT and later jump-support partner.
Following a double ( i. e. partner opens 1NT and intervening opponent doubles ), there are two options in fairly common use:
( Note: some partnerships use a " forcing pass " by the partner of the 1NT opener.
The partner of the 1NT opener may then pass the redouble with a good hand and 1NT redoubled is judged to be makeable, or with a poor hand initiate bidding 4-card suits up-the-line until at least at 4-3 suit fit is found ).
1NT and at
Thus, 1NT is virtually certain to go down by at least three or four tricks.
The name " Crawling Stayman " comes from the fact that the bidding " crawls " at the slowest possible pace: ( pass ) – 1NT – ( pass ) – 2 ; ( pass ) – 2 – ( pass ) – 2 ; ( pass ) – 2 ; ( pass ) – pass – ( pass ).
1NT and same
Subsequent bidding: the same as after a 1NT opening
Subsequent bidding: the same as after a 1NT opening
1NT and .
A frequent dilemma among players is whether to allow 1NT opening with 5-3-3-2 distribution which includes a five-card major suit.
After 1NT by opener, responder starts by bidding 2 just as in the standard Stayman convention, but the opener now responds 2 or 2 only with a 5-card major.
Thus, 1NT – 2 ; 2 – 2 shows 4 spades and 1NT – 2 ; 2 – 2, shows 4 hearts.
* Conventions are specified as being " off " in response to a 1NT overcall, except that 2 is still Stayman.
Because the two-level responses are stronger than in Standard American bidding, the response of 1NT to 1 or 1 opening is forcing for one round and is used ( among other things ) for weaker hands containing low-ranking suits.
Some pairs play a variant in which the 1NT response to 1 or 1 is semi-forcing.
Most players will open the South hand with 1NT rather than 1.
And it is very difficult to reach a heart contract if South opens 1NT or 1: either way, North signs off in diamonds.
( Stayman may also be used as in responses to 1NT ; i. e., 3 shows no 4-card major ).
* Other responses as over 1NT.
* 1NT and 2NT non-jump overcalls – 15 – 18 HCP with a stopper.
* 1NT re-opening – 12 – 15 HCP.
bid and tends
In a bid to revive his will to live and his passion for his art, she tends to his medical needs, through his friend, Raghu ( Sarath Babu ) and solicits Balu to be the dance master for her daughter, Sailaja ( SP Sailaja ).
In this game it is much harder to make your bid as it tends to be 4 vs. 1 and the bidder is often shot.
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