There has long been argument about the merit of making an opening two-bid on a four-card suit, The Culbertson system approves it; the Four Aces system and the Sims system do not. Frank E. Bruelheide's recently announced " American system," forbids making an opening two-bid, which is forcing to game, without a five-card or longer suit The following deal would bother most system-makers ding. Such reasoning would be correct, however, only if playing against opponents in the expert class, Most expert players habitually reopen the bidding on very weak hands, even to the point of bidding one spade on the foregoing East hand if South had originally bid one heart and West and North had passed.
A Whimsical, Paradoxical
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