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Carrot Club
Carrot Club (or ''Morotsklöver'' in Swedish) is a strong club system, developed in the 1970s and played in international teams championships by Danielle Nughes, Anders Morath and Sven-Olov Flodquist. They won the European teams championships in 1977 and placed third in the World teams championships in 1977 and 1991. Some features of the system are a natural 4+card 1 opening, canapé-openings with longer -suit, Carrot 1NT (a "wide" 1NT-opening showing 13–17 hcp; if 13–14, may not have a 4-card major), and the Carrot 4NT slam convention. References Further reading * Sven-Olov Flodqvist, ''Morotsklövern'' (Swedish title), Stockholm 1978. {{WPCBIndex Bridge systems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strong Club System
The Strong Club System is a set of bidding conventions and agreements used in the game of contract bridge and is based upon an opening bid of 1 as being an artificial forcing bid promising a strong hand. The strong 1 opening is assigned a minimum strength promising 16 or more high card points. All other bids would therefore be limited to a maximum of 15 high card points. There are several variants of the strong club system and all are classified as artificial because the bids are highly codified. Strengths and weaknesses There are two generally acknowledged strengths of the strong club systems: # accuracy in uncontested slam-strength auctions, because the bidding starts at such a low level when opener has a fairly strong hand. # the fact that all other opening bids have their strength capped by the strong club means more accurate judgment and scope for tactical operation both in constructive and competitive bidding. The generally acknowledged weakness of such systems is the fact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrot 1NT
The Carrot 1NT is a contract bridge convention, in which a 1NT opening bid shows a balanced hand 13–17 HCP. With 13–14 HCP, the opener may not have a 4-card major. With 15–17 HCP, all balanced hands (including those with a 5-card major) may be opened 1NT. While originally developed for the Carrot Club system, this opening bid can be adopted by systems using 15–17 or 14–16 HCP ranges for their 1NT openings. It combines the preemptive advantage of a weak 1NT opening when opener lacks sufficient holdings in the majors, with the constructive effect of a strong 1NT opening. To manage the wide 5-point HCP range, the response structure has been designed to distinguish between ''weak'' invitational bids (7–9 hcp, inviting the 15–17 hand only) and ''strong'' invitational bids (10–11 hcp, inviting the 13–14 hand and game-forcing to 15–17). Responses to 1NT * 2/2 are natural ''weak'' (7–9) invitations with a 5-card major. * 2NT is a ''strong'' (10–11) invitation, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrot 4NT
The Carrot 4NT slam-convention was developed in Carrot Club, but can be used in any bidding system instead of the more common Blackwood or RKC conventions. It is a refinement of an older convention, Culbertson 4NT. Rather than asking for Aces or keycards, 4NT is used to ''show'' number of keycards. This convention applies when 4NT is preceded by cuebid In contract bridge, a cue bid (also, cuebid or cue-bid) is either a bid of the opponents' suit, or "slam seeking": a slam-investigating bid made during an auction's later rounds that shows control of a suit. Traditionally a cue bid is "slam seeki ...s, and generally when 4NT is a non-jumping bid. The immediate advantage of this approach over Blackwood/RKC, is that while still establishing the combined number of keycards, the pair will be able to use the 5-level for cuebids, too, to more thoroughly explore and negotiate their slam-potential. Normally, 4NT shows at least 3 out of 5 keycards (including the King of trumps) plus f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |