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Precision Club

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491:) – one of the most successful bridge partnerships of all time. Meckwell bidding is highly sophisticated variation of Precision system. Most of RM Precision was developed subsequently in the early '80s with adaptations following more slowly thereafter. Meckwell notes are a guarded secret. Though many conventions has been openly described and used: 158:
The main disadvantage of the strong-club system is its vulnerability to preemptive bids. Knowing that they rarely can make game against a strong-club opening, experienced opponents will compete in the bidding with distributional hands, regardless of strength, and rob bidding space from the opening
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Their trademark is their tendency to open and overcall very light and consistently play routine partscore deals in game, making a far higher percentage of these games than the odds would suggest. Some intermediate jump overcalls (unfavorable vulnerability) and a no-fear two-suited overcall
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Critics of Precision question the wisdom of combining a strong club with 5-card majors. This causes certain hand shapes to bid awkwardly, and a high percentage of hands are opened with one diamond, including in some cases hands with only a doubleton diamond.
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to both try to make the strong hand declarer and saving space in the auction. Other popular Precision variations on opening bids are using a strong 1NT (14–16 is most common), using 2
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Meckwell Lite is a simplified version of RM Precision popular among students and widely played in many bridge clubs. There are many versions of Meckwell Lite (some are listed in
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Advocates of Precision say that it is generally more efficient (and precise, as the name would suggest) than systems such as Standard American. Because all opening bids except 1
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This is so absurd that I wish to go on record in stating that the Big Club cannot be played with any hope of success if you attempt to use it by bidding only 5-card majors.
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My opinion on Precision is that combining five-card majors with a forcing club is like trying to mix oil and water, and it has serious structural defects…"
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are limited, the responder almost immediately knows the hand potential and the chances for a part score, game or slam.
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The central feature of the Precision system is that an opening bid of one club is used for any hand with 16 or more
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play their own variant known as RM Precision. In North America, Precision is less commonly played than
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to show only a 6+ club suit and expanding the possible hand patterns for the 2
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bid to include the usual 4–4–1–4 and 4–4–0–5 as well as 4–3–1–5 and 3–4–1–5,1
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Precision has seen several variations since 1969. 3NT is played as
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and he titled it Super Precision. Today, multiple world champions
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in 1972. The modifications to the system were made chiefly by
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teams in 1969. Their success in placing second at the 1969
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opening is not played diamonds can be even shorter.
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Index

Contract bridge
Bidding system
Bridge convention
Glossary of contract bridge terms
contract bridge
strong club system
C. C. Wei
Alan Truscott
Taiwan
Bermuda Bowl
high card points
Bermuda Bowls
Blue team
World Team Olympiad
Benito Garozzo
Jeff Meckstroth
Eric Rodwell
Standard American
2/1 game forcing
Howard Schenken
Bob Hamman
preempts
Gambling
relay bids
Eric Rodwell
Jeff Meckstroth
support double
Meckwell Defense
Eric Kokish
external links

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