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Some of the forcing pass system used these at the one level, ie 1H = 45+ H&C/S&D or something.<BR/><BR/>Full canape is simply different I think. It affects your constructive structure as much anything else, ie Roman in response to 1D has:<BR/>1H = Negative - now show side suit and strength, 1NT = Nearly GF balanced, new suits strong too.<BR/><BR/>In competitive terms it serves to deemphasise the shape in responders hand - any side suits partner has are 5+ long.<BR/>So you never need to look for 4-4 fits (the opening bid finds these), and there's no real rush to even show 5 card suits. Also your negative doubles can be very 'loose'.<BR/><BR/>What hurts of course is the chance to sometimes miss 5-5 fits :)<BR/><BR/>I do find it fascinating how Roamn club has vanished so competely - it was played by more of the blue team than blue team club and won endless word titles.<BR/>I guess much of it got absorbed into Polish club etc but not the canape.<BR/><BR/>Still with the pedigree it has it's a bit baffling - nothing obviously wrong with it.<BR/><BR/>Actually David might like it - all the balanced hands open 1C or 1NT (17-20) (maybe 2NT too) and 1D/H/S are forcing for one round, always unablanced and virtually unlimited.<BR/>(All GF hands open 1C in traditional style, along with ~16+ C hands. C one suiters are considered not to exist and opened in fake canape suits :)).<BR/><BR/>Ok the 2C/D 3 suited openings are silly, and 2H/S as 12-15 5+ suit,4+C is slightly annoying.<BR/><BR/>But 3 suiters can go onto 1C, freeing 2C for some C one suiters etc etc.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure it would be easy enough to make it extremely playable. The reason for transfer openings btw was to make the unbal openings unlimited and allow for transfer *rebids* by opener.Martin Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17111397654552314982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276785354801124344.post-51705643896427955582007-03-07T00:42:00.000+00:002007-03-07T00:42:00.000+00:00Martin, what sort of thing do you mean by either/o...Martin, what sort of thing do you mean by either/or two-suiters? Polish Twos, RCO Twos, either?<BR/><BR/>I guess there's actually less ambiguity with RCO Twos, it's more likely that responder can guess the suits from his hand.<BR/><BR/>Should a hand that passes initially then takes a call be described as a one-bid or a two-bid hand? You can still get preempted, etc, so maybe the terminology should be two-*call* hand - that doesn't sound as good though :(<BR/><BR/>As for one-level openings, I'd imagine a 1D opening showing 4M5m would do okay - responder's double would be pass-or-correct. Occasionally you'd get a bad score when you double the opponents in a major suit and it turns out that both sides had a big minor suit fit - I guess one-level openings need to be too frequent to allow a big enough difference in shape for this sort of thing not to occur?<BR/><BR/>And yes, full canapé is a bit weird. I'm struggling to see the advantages.<BR/><BR/>MikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276785354801124344.post-41463524627344451362007-03-05T17:18:00.000+00:002007-03-05T17:18:00.000+00:00A more sucessful case for breaking homogenity than...A more sucessful case for breaking homogenity than the multi comes with either/or two suiters. <BR/><BR/>These have the additional advantage over the multi of turning weak two bid hands into conditional one bid hands.<BR/><BR/>I know they've have mostly been used as preempts - but one of the polish forcing pass systems used these at the one level. <BR/><BR/>I guess these bids show that you can use shape rather than strength to control broken homogeneity with one bid hands.<BR/><BR/>But you have to have a BIG difference in the shapes - and current system regulations aren't friendly :)<BR/><BR/>btw some of the earlier posts did seem to somewhat equate the MAFIA (majors first) style of systems like blue team club with canape.<BR/><BR/>The first has to do with saving space where as the second is just another (quite different) way to show two suiters. No length ambiguities at least.<BR/>(at the eccentric extreme of German Moscito even one suiters were opened in a fragment.....).<BR/><BR/>These are very rare nowadays though - I think perhaps because opening a 4 card minor ahead of a 5+ major on a one bid hand really isn't nice.<BR/><BR/>Still Roman Club won a few Bermuda Bowls - I've tried to patch transfer openings onto it but I'm not sure how well it works.Martin Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17111397654552314982noreply@blogger.com