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Blue Club

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suit openings only promise three cards. Also, the partnership establishes whether the hands are game or slam going earlier in the auction, due to the limited nature of the opening bid. A Blue Club opening hand is either minimum or maximum, whereas Standard American, 2/1 and Acol openings have minimum, medium and maximum ranges, requiring extra bids to narrow down the range of the opening bid. Also, all Blue Club bids after the 1 club opening are natural and at a low level, making it easier to find fits below the game level, whereas systems that do not employ a strong club (or strong diamond) must start strong hands a level higher.
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Non Blue Club players consider the system to be complicated and artificial but practitioners will point out that it is relatively natural, for instance, other than the artificial one club opening, all one-level opening bids promise at least four cards in the suit, whereas in many other systems, minor
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have steadily evolved to enable players to compete against other modern systems. This evolution has had the effect of making such systems much more complicated and convoluted at higher levels. The Italian team captain, Carl Alberto Perroux, is quoted as saying, "a standard Ford, however much jazzed
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The wide-ranging 1NT opening can lead to responder having to probe for game more often and is not always easy in competition. The more modern treatment seems to be to play 1NT as either 15-17 balanced or 13–14 with the club hands (but not
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Blue Club is less fashionable these days but it was still used by a few pairs in the 2013 World Bridge Olympiad: VanProoijen-Verhees of the Netherlands, Cornell-Bach of New Zealand and Newell-Reid New Zealand.
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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
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Canapé bidding on moderate hands has the advantage that the opener typically bids the second and strongest suit at the 2 level.
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Due to inconsistent canapé, responder has no idea which is the long suit with sequences that go 1X−1NT−2Y.
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Blue Club gave significant advances in finding safe slams, which other systems of that time could miss.
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and became very popular in the 1960s. It has gained a strong following ever since.
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In particular, Blue Club is purpose built, whereas other systems such as
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pass 602:Psychic bid 527:Forcing bid 487:Bidding box 2279:Magazines: 1970:Marcus Cup 1770:Venice Cup 1574:Savoy Club 1246:Rule of 11 1062:Trump coup 778:Roman Club 672:Zar Points 652:Two suiter 632:Stolen bid 572:Minor suit 567:Major suit 398:Minibridge 170:References 125:difficult. 112:Advantages 98:Roman Club 2265:Magazines 2045:Reisinger 1528:Four Aces 1518:Blue Team 1331:Australia 1074:Squeezes: 1007:Bath coup 863:Beer card 836:Card play 708:Blue Club 323:Bridgette 35:Blue Team 20:Blue Club 2355:Category 2075:Spingold 1446:Pakistan 1351:Bulgaria 953:Uppercut 933:Shooting 743:Fantunes 582:Overcall 537:Game try 271:Overview 190:(1969). 159:preempts 57:controls 1702:General 1411:Ireland 1401:Hungary 1396:Germany 1386:Fiction 1381:England 1366:Denmark 1346:Britain 1336:Austria 1293:General 983:Finesse 898:Hold up 883:Endplay 846:General 763:Moscito 681:Systems 587:Preempt 517:Cue bid 470:General 460:Bidding 438:Vugraph 368:Goulash 333:Chicago 281:General 194:(ed.). 2193:Books: 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Index

bridge
bidding system
Benito Garozzo
Blue Team
Strong club system
HCP
controls
HCP
Canapé
Roman Club
high card points
Standard American
preempts
Garozzo, Benito
Yallouze, Leon
Reese, Terence
ISBN
0-571-09265-9
Blue Club, Calgary Casual Style
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Contract bridge
Auction bridge
Bridge ethics
Bridge-O-Rama
Bridge maxims
Bridge Murder case
Bridge scoring
Bridge whist

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