You can specify the NS side bidding system and the EW side bidding system respectively. You can choose your bidding system from fourteen pre-defined systems. Furthermore, you can modify these systems or create new systems by selecting the options below.
Pre-Defined Bidding Systems
- ACBL Club Series: Bidding in the 21st Century (Five Card Majors)
- ACBL Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC, 2006 Revised Version)
- Advanced Standard American Five Card Majors
- Danish Standard (Simple): Five Card Spades
- Dutch Standard (Simple): Four Card Majors
- Dutch/Danish (Advanced): Five Card Spades
- Finnish Standard
- French Five Card Majors
- JBTA Five Card Major Standard (Japan Bridge Teachers' Association)
- Standard English System
- Swedish Standard
- Traditional Acol
- Two Over One Game Force (Revised Version)
- Yotsuya Basic Standard Bid System
Bidding Options
- General Approaches:
American Four Card Majors (Goren)
European Four Card Majors (Acol)
American Five Card Majors
French Five Card Majors
European Five Card Spades
Two Over One Game Force (1x-3y Strong)
Two Over One Game Force (1x-3y Invitational)
- Opening with 4432 and 4333 (Four Card Majors only):
Prepared Opening
Major Suit First
Lower Suit First
- Minimum Strength of Opening Suit Bids of One:
Balanced Hands=Good 11 HCP, 12 HCP, Good 12 HCP, or 13 HCP
Unbalanced Hands=9HCP, 10 HCP or 11 HCP
- Notrump Structure After an Opening Suit Bids of One:
2NT after 1/1=18-20 HCP(F) or 17-18 HCP(NF)
2NT after 2/1=15-18 HCP(F) or 12-14 HCP(NF)
New Minor Forcing
Checkback Stayman
- Raising Partner:
Forcing Raises or Limit Raises
2NT Forcing Raise (Jacoby 2NT 11+ or 16+, Stenberg)
3NT Forcing Raise
Splinter Bids
Inverted Minor Raises
Value Swiss, Trump Swiss, and Minor Suit Swiss
Fourth Suit Forcing
- 1NT Opening Bids:
12-14 HCP, 13-15 HCP, 15-17 HCP, 15-18 HCP, or 16-18 HCP
No 5-card majors or may have a weak 5-card major
Weak 1NT-Double-Redouble is strong or an escape with 4333, 4432, and 4441
- Responses to 1NT:
2 =Forcing Stayman, Non-Forcing Stayman or 4-response Stayman
2 /2 =Sign Off or Jacoby Transfers
2 =Sign Off, Minor Suit Stayman, or Forces 3 for Sign Off in Either Minor
2 /2NT or 2 /3 =Minor Suit Transfer
3 /3 =Preemptive, Game Invitation, or Slam Try
3 /3 =Preemptive, Game Invitation, Game Forcing, or Slam Try
4 /4 =Natural or Texas Transfers
Lebensohl
- Responses to overcal 1NT (1x-1NT-p)
2 , 2 and 2 are natural sign off or
2 and 2 are Jacoby transfers, 2 is sign off in either minor.
- Opening Suit Bids of Two:
Strong Twos
2 Strong and Artificial (2 response is negative or waiting, Second Negative=2NT or Cheaper Minor)
Acol Twos, Benjamin Twos, or French Twos
Weak Twos
Flannery 2 , Roman 2 , or Mini-Multi 2
- Weak Two Bids:
6-10 HCP, 6-11 HCP, 7-10 HCP, or 7-11 HCP
New Suit Forcing or New Suit Non-Forcing
2NT Ogust or 2NT Feature Asking
- 2NT Opening Bids:
20-21 HCP, 21-22 HCP, or 22-24 HCP
- Responses to 2NT:
3 =Stayman, Puppet Stayman, or Baron
3 =Natural, Jacoby Transfers, or Flint
3 =Natural or Jacoby Transfers
3 =Natural or Minor Suit Stayman
4 /4 =Natural or Texas Transfers
- 3NT Opening Bids:
25-27 HCP, Gambling 3NT, or Acol 3NT
- Opening Preempts at the Three-Level:
Sound, Light only when Not VUL, or Always Light
- Slam Conventions:
Gerber
Simple Blackwood
Roman Key Card Blackwood (0314 and 1430 types)
- Other Offensive Bids:
Negative Doubles
Truscott 2NT(Jordan)
Weak Jump Shifts over Opponent's Overcall
Preemptive Jump Raises
Maximal Overcall Doubles (Game Try Doubles)
Support Doubles, Support Redoubles
- Minimum Strength of One-Level Overcalls:
Aggressive Style=Good 6 HCP, Good 7 HCP, or Good 8 HCP (Raises are preemptive)
Constructive Style=Good 9 HCP or Good 10 HCP (Raises are constructive)
Four Card Suit Overcalls
- Minimum Strength of Two-Level Overcalls:
Good 10HCP, Good 11HCP, or Good 12HCP
- Jump Overcalls:
Weak (2NT: Natural, Feature, or Ogust)
Intermediate
- Overcalls Against 1NT:
Natural
Landy
Astro
Cappelletti
- Minimum Strength of Takeout Doubles:
Good 11 HCP or Good 12 HCP
- Direct Cue Bids:
Strong Takeout
Michaels
Ghestem
- Other Defensive Bids:
Responsive Doubles
Leaping Michaels
Lebensohl After a Takeout Double of a Weak Two-Bid
Sandwich Notrump (Weak Takeout 1NT)
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