DavidC's Bridge Blog

Some systems are very good at showing strength on balanced hands. For example, many Italian pairs bid balanced hands something like this: 12...

This is the companion to Unbalanced-Hands-Show-Shape . Showing shape is always a good thing, because fit is all-important in competitive auc...

As explained in the previous post , showing shape with the opening bid is very important, particularly for unbalanced hands. The question is...

Most regular partnerships will have a defence to a strong 1C opening - there's a space for that on the convention card. But what about o...

Let's restrict our attention to constructive opening bids (as opposed to pre-empts) and consider how to define these in order to describ...

Playing 5-card majors, we have to decide what to open on a balanced hand outside the range for 1NT. In the most widely-played systems, these...

In the previous post, our One-Bid-Or-Two principle was a guide for what to open with a particular hand. But we can also write down a simila...