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Many
partnerships play a 2 transfer
to clubs and 2NT
transfer to diamonds. Some use 3 as
a transfer to
diamonds instead of 2NT, which retains a
natural 2NT
response, but loses
the ability for opener to express
his opinion about diamonds.
Over
2,
opener may bid 2NT or 3;
one bid can be
used to show interest in game opposite an
invitational
hand, while the
other can express no interest. The
mistake many make is
to play that the interest bid
merely shows
a fit for partner. Responder, with an
invitational hand,
is not interested only in a fit -
he is interested in a
3NT contract specifically. So the
interest bid
over 2 should
say: I want to play
3NT if you have
an invitational hand.
On
today's hand, South has a club fit, but does not want
to
play 3NT, because he needs too much from North to
make
9 tricks. If North has enough to produce 3NT, he
will bid
it opposite a sign off from opener. So opener should
make
the weaker bid over 2. If you use 2NT as the
stronger
bid and 3 as the weaker one, South should
bid 3. Again,
this doesn't mean I don't like clubs but
means I
don't like our prospects for 3NT.
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