{"id":142,"date":"2023-12-19T20:59:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2023-12-19T21:07:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T21:07:27","slug":"defence-to-weak-twos-and-threes-openings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/?page_id=142","title":{"rendered":"Defence to Weak twos and threes openings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Double for Take-out (shortage in the opponent\u2019s suit, opening values)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Suit Overcalls: 10+ points &amp; a 6-card suit (or good 5-card suit)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2NT Overcall: 16-19 points semi-balanced with a stop in the bid suit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to Take-Out-Double<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>With 0-8 points make a simple response (lowest level).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With 9-10 points make a jump response if you have room.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With 11+ points go for game (in a major).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over 2\u2665 you have room for three bids in spades, 2\u2660, 3\u2660 or 4\u2660.<br>Whereas over 2\u2660 you have room for just two in hearts 3\u2665 or 4\u2665.<br>Thus the 9-10 range above is only used over a 2\u2665 opening.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over a 2\u2660 opening your two ranges should be 0-9 weak response, 10+ go for a game<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to Take-Out-Double<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.sharkservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}