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List of bidding systems

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This is a list of bidding systems used in contract bridge. Bidding systems are characterized as belonging to one of two broadly defined categories:

Contents

  • natural bidding systems and
  • artificial bidding systems.

    • Nevertheless, each contains elements of the other given the number and variety of treatments and conventions that have been developed by bridge bidding theorists.

    Natural four card majors systems

  • 5-4-4-3 System
  • Acol
  • Baron, an English system developed in the 1940s by Leo Baron, Adam Meredith and others.
  • CAB, acronym for Two Clubs, Ace-asking and Blackwood
  • Canapé
  • Colonial Acol
  • Culbertson
  • EFOS, the Economical Forcing System developed by Eric Jannersten and others in Sweden in the sixties and seventies
  • EHAA, acronym for Every Hand An Adventure
  • Four Aces Team
  • Goren
  • Official System
  • Reith One-over-one

    • Natural five card majors systems

  • 2/1 game forcing
  • 5-5-4-2 System
  • 5-5-5-1 System
  • Aces Scientific
  • Alpha
  • Bridge World Standard
  • Eastern Scientific
  • Five Card Majors
  • Majeure Cinquième
  • Romex
  • Roth-Stone
  • Kaplan-Sheinwold
  • Standard American
  • Western Scientific

    • Strong club systems

  • Blue Club
  • Black Club
  • Canary Club
  • Carrot Club
  • French Club
  • Hybrid Club
  • Icelandic Precision
  • Moscito
  • Neapolitan Club
  • Nottingham Club
  • Power Precision Club
  • Precision Club
  • Schenken Big Club
  • Simplified Precision
  • Super Precision Club
  • Ultimate Club
  • Vanderbilt Club

    • Artificial one club systems

  • Betangina
  • Bissell
  • Lea System
  • Little Roman Club
  • Polish Club
  • Power Club
  • Roman Club
  • Swedish Club
  • Trefle Squeeze
  • Vienna

    • Strong diamond systems

  • Big Diamond
  • Magic Diamond
  • Leghorn Diamond (Livorno)
  • Mirror Diamond
  • CS System

    • Weak opening systems

  • Carrotti
  • Delta
  • No Name
  • Regres
  • Säffle Spade, a forcing Pass system

    • Artificial systems

  • HUM Systems
  • Little Major
  • Marmic
  • Relay Systems

    • Other systems

  • Amsterdam Club
  • Bangkok Club
  • Churchill Style
  • Crane
  • Dutch Spade
  • Kamikaze Notrump
  • Monaco
  • New South Wales
  • Orange Club
  • Pro System
  • Simplified Club
  • Sims
  • Stone Age Acol With Pakistani Preempts
  • Symmetric Relay
  • Ultimate Club
  • Walsh
  • Winslow

    • References

    List of bidding systems Wikipedia
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