With a weaker hand, 9-10 HCP, it may be a little safer to switch to unless you have a singleton or a white or 6-card color somewhere to transfer. double = transfer to hearts2 = transfer to spades2♥♠ = transfer to clubs Jacoby transfers are the easiest of transfer offers. They apply after each natural opening of 1NT, 2NT or 3NT. In short, the answering machine offers the lowest level of ♦ or ♥ as a request to the opener to bid ♥ or ,. ♠ Jacoby transfers can be done with any power hand and always require a 5-card color. Since a natural emergency rump opening has a single doubleton in the worst case, there is a chance (about 25%) of a 7-card adjustment, but much more likely is an 8-card adjustment or better. Traditionally, before playing transfers in Bridge, you offer Responder holding a major color of 5 cards two, three or four of this color, depending on your strength. And using “transfer” offers, all 5 above can be achieved if only the “simpler” and obvious hand (which contains the publicly stated long suit) is placed on the table as a dummy for the enemy to see, while the more complex and less obvious hand, which was not revealed in the auction, the auction hand NT, is preserved. Hidden from the enemy. All useful to increase your chances of bidding and falling! There are several schools of thought regarding the options of the opener when responding to a Jacoby transfer.
On the one hand, because the answering machine may have absolutely nothing, some say that the opener has no choice and must always respond to the lowest level. Transfer auctions aren`t really for absolute beginners who have had enough on their plate. But once you start learning answers to 1NT, it might be better to learn the slightly more advanced and beneficial way that so many other players use these days than to learn the “beginner bridge” to have to “unlearn” this later. If the bid for artificial transfers is doubled, the 1NT bidder can pass with only two cards, double to show good posture in the artificial transfer color, or complete the transfer by offering 2 or 2 with at least three cards. Using transfers to investigate these issues, the chances of landing in the optimal contract are not 100%, but they are often higher than bidding in a language that doesn`t allow the team to have the conversation. Some partnerships play that a transfer without adjustment can be rejected by offering the cheapest emergency rump. The answering machine can still be retransmitted. Many prefer not to use this treatment because if the answering machine had nothing, there is a choice between 2NT or maybe 3 of the middle finger with a 7-card adjustment, none of which are particularly good. Since the answering machine usually clarifies the transfer with the next new bid, this processing only serves to give more information about the hidden hand.
On the other hand, the law of total turns suggests that if the opener is long in the transferred color (4+ cards), then there is at least one adjustment of 9 cards and therefore bidding on level 3 is safe anyway. With more than 4 assets and a maximum aperture (17 points), the opener can bypass the transfer by jumping one level. The opener must complete the transfer by offering 2 or 2. However, the opener can place a super acceptance offer of 3 or 3 if he holds 4 support cards and 17 points. Some experts, like Marty Bergen, advocate an approach of making a super-acceptance when holding a 4-card stand, in accordance with the law of total tricks. This is, of course, a matter of the Partnership Agreement. The disadvantage of transfers is the loss of the ability to make a small♦ withdrawal in 2 after an opening of 1NT. See also Retransfers and Transfers in Texas. Once the opener has offered 1, 2 or 3 notrump, the respondent announces “Transfer” to inform opponents that the respondent`s offer is artificial and conventional. – Offer 4 in transfer color with more than 3 cards in color Example: 1N – 2D; 2H – 3N; 4H Using “transfers”, you (the respondent) can open an exploration of all the following 5 or 6 situations – and more, and some of them on the beautiful low level 2, because you are guaranteed to have a chance to bid again if you wish: you can and should always transfer, but your new bid must be different, because with 31+ HCP you are looking for Slam.
(Partner, I will force you to stay calm because I will no longer bid after obeying my transfer order.) 1NT is an accurate opening: transfers allow the respondent who has a major color with at least 5 cards to use a two-level bid to be accurate on their hand as well, so that after an NT opening, a final judgment can be made on a color lower than you really mean. Your partner will recognize what you did and “transfer” it into the costume you really wanted to say. *Note: The opener can accept the super transfer by offering three of the main costumes if they have a maximum hand with an adjustment. Let`s look at the problem of ignoring transfers, William. If you don`t use transfers, a response to 1NT of, say, 2 is limited to meaning only ONE of the two things: EITHER Oswald Jacoby of Dallas TX, bridge columnist. One of the great players of all time. Member of the ACBL Hall of Fame. He first gained international fame as A partner of Sidney Lenz in the famous Culbertson-Lenz match. Had already established himself as a champion at auction and contract.
Then he became a member of the famous Four Horsemen and Four Aces teams. His selection by Lenz over players with greater experience with whom Lenz had practiced partnerships was an early recognition of the brilliance and skill that would later place Jacoby at the top of the ACBL list of All-Time Masterpoint winners. Jacoby had two months of military service during the First World War at the age of 15, and he was awarded the Victory Medal. On December 7, 1941, he played in the NABC Open Pairs in Richmond, Virginia. when the attack on Pearl Harbor was announced. He left the tournament immediately and did not play for 4 years. For most of this period, he served as a specialist in the Navy, with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. When he returned to competitive sports in 1945, he found Charles Goren far ahead in the ranking of MPs. He had done very little to return to the top when he returned to active duty in 1950 to serve in the Korean War. He served as a commander in the intelligence services and was a member of the original General Staff at the Panmunjom Armistice Conference.
This return to service cost him his place on the U.S. team in the first games of the Bermuda Bowl. However, he had already represented the ABL in international competition in 1935, the year the Four Aces team beat the French, European champions, in the first official meeting of the World Cup. After 2 years of Korean service, Jacoby found that he had dropped out of the top 19 MP holders. By 1958, he had managed to return to 6th place, still far behind Goren. At that time, he decided to make a determined effort to regain the position of #1. He did so in 1962. Between 1959 and 1963, he won the McKenney Trophy 4 times in 5 years; The only player over 50 at the time to have won the trophy.
He won it at the ages of 57, 59, 60 and 61. In 1963, he became the first player to acquire more than 1,000 MPs in a single year. His overall winning percentage that year was 1,034. In 1967, he surpassed the 10,000-point mark, after which he retired from active competition for the McKenney Trophy. Almost exactly a year later, he handed over his position as best masterpoint holder to Barry Crane. Jacoby pioneered many auction ideas, including Forcing 2NT, Jacoby Transfer Bids, and Weak Jump Overcalls. His innovations included developments of Gerber and Blackwood and specialized use of Two Notrump and Three Notrump Responses. His most recent innovations were the use of Two-Way Stayman in conjunction with Jacoby Transfer Bids after the opening of 2NT and after 2-anything-2NT. He invented the use of 2H as a double negative response to 2C with 2NT of a positive cardiac response and 2*D* the usual waiting requirement. His writings include “The Four Aces System”, What`s New in Bridge, Win at Bridge with Oswald Jacoby, Win at Bridge with Jacoby Modern, The Backgammon Book (with John Crawford). He also had many books on mathematics, gambling, poker and other card games, including Canasta, in which he had the two best-selling books. Jacoby, born in Brooklyn on December 8, 1902, left Columbia in his first year to become an actuary and passed the Society of Actuaries exam in 1924 to become the youngest person to do so at the age of 21.
After four years at Metropolitan Life, he started his own business, but his success was marred by the stock market crash of 1929. Jacoby`s winning career involves many curiosities. He played (and won) his first auction tournament in July 1929 – the National Team Championship of the American Whist League. .