BridgeMatters

This blog provides supplementary thoughts and ideas to the www.bridgematters.com site. If you haven't seen the main site, there is a lot there including the Martel and Rodwell interviews, photos, and articles. This blog is focused on advancing bridge theory by discussing the application of new ideas. All original content is copyright 2009 Glen Ashton.

Friday, June 30, 2006

Change of Heart is now up.

See http://www.bridgematters.com/coh.pdf

At first a strong heart opening seems silly, but it has key advantages if done with a restricted set of hand types, the two primary ones being 15+ with hearts and 17-19 balanced. 14 or less with hearts open on the two level to try to cut down on spade overcalls by the opponents.

Since 17-19 balanced can be handled via 1H, there is lots of room for fun stuff. One could set up a system like:

1NT: 10-12
1C: Clubs or 15-16 balanced
1D: Diamonds or 13-14 balanced

or something dangerous like:

1NT: 11-13
1C: Clubs or 14-16 balanced
1D: Diamonds or 8-10 balanced

Flip the 11-13 and 14-16 when vulnerable but keep opening those 8-10s!

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