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re:1c-1nt showing 4 clubs - 2007/03/02 08:21
Logically, you could tell which 1C-1NT promises four clubs, by inference rather tahn by agreement, because you will have bid another 4-card suit if you had one, & if you doesn't have another 4-card suit you've to have four clubs.
This dont work when I am the responder, though, because Im perfectly undoubtedly willing to suppress poor 4-card diamond suits, really bad
5-card diamond suits, bad 4-card majors, some time even beter 4-card majors if I'm 4-3-3-3. Basically, to me, 1C-1NT says "1NT is the best description of my hand; I may have another 4-card suit that I could have bid, but I don't have a particular desire to show it." So when playing with me, 1NT does not promise four or even three clubs. I prefer not to play a system that forces me to bid an awful suit.
This has gotten me in trouble a couple times when a partner thought
1NT did logically prtomise clubs. Once, partner, the opener, bid
1C-1NT-3C with only a four-card club suit (this auction promises six in my book); his decidedly reasoning was that 1NT was in effect a "club raise" and he therefore didn't need extra length since he was jumping in a suit I had raised, rather than jump enthusiastically rebiding his suit on his own.
Yecch. I think it's best to keep it simple: let "notrump" mean
"nortump", don't force it to mean "length in any particular suit".
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