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‘ When you have both minors open 1Ë.

Notice that for the first time we need two bids or more to describe
some of these hands. That makes it much easier to make a mistake and
allows you and your partner to get it wrong.

We now need to change sides and look at -

Responding to an opening of 1 of a suit

When partner opens 1 of a suit and the opponents are silent partner is
bidding his longest suit. For the most part this simply shows at least a four
card suit however, should partner rebid it he is now showing at least five.

We should discuss first the case when you cannot support partner’s
suit, that is, you have not got four cards in the suit that your partner
opened.

The rules are simple here -
i If you have 6 or more points you MUST bid;
i If you have 6 or more points you can bid a new suit at the one
level if you have at least four cards in it;
i If you have 10 of more points you can bid a new suit at the two
level if it has at least four cards in it (an exception is that to bid 2Ì
over 1Í needs 5 cards because it takes up so much room);
i You bid your longest suit so long as it does not violate the rules
above;
i If you can do none of the above but have 6 or more points
respond 1NT (this is called “the bucket bid”).

Examples.
Look at the examples below and look how they should be bid. Try to
work out why they are bid this way and what each bid means.

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