Until 8 years ago I was a software engineer and safety consultant, but now I'm a part-time bridge writer. I provide much of the material for the nofearbridge websites, notably the "hand of the day" feature for which I've supplied more than 2000 declarer and defence problems.
Although based in the UK I've never really enjoyed playing Acol. I'm a firm believer in strong NT with 5 card majors and play Two over One with many of my partners. With my most regular partners I play a home-grown system known as MOSSO, about which a two-volume book has recently been published.
Read more »This poll also applies to the sequence 1♠-2♥-3♠ - the title is chosen for brevity.
Playing 2/1, opener doesn't have to jump in his major suit just to show a strong hand with a 6+ card suit, since a simple rebid of his suit would still be forcing. The jump rebid should therefore show a specific type of hand, although the precise definition is unclear to me. How do people play this sequence nowadays?
For the third and fourth options, my definition of "semi-solid" is a suit that has a better than 50% chance of avoiding more than one loser opposite a void. KQJTxx and KQJ9xxx are examples of minimum suits. If your definition of semi-solid is wildly different from this, please vote for "other".
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