Canapé (bridge)
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Canapé is a bridge bidding method in which the second suit bid may be (or must be) longer than or at least as long as the first.[1] The name Canapé is the french word for "an appetizer".
Canapé is the invention of
Canapé openings have several technical advantages:
- It is easy to find 4-4 major-suit fits, and responder may quickly raise the bidding-level.
- When you immediately find a 4-4 major-suit fit, opener may never reveal his longer side-suit, making defence considerably more difficult.
- Opening a 4-card major on balanced hands has more preemptive value, than opening a 2- or 3-card minor in standard system.
- When opening with a longer side-suit, Left-Hand-Opponent is less likely to have a shape fit for a takeout-double, and may not be able to enter the bidding.
- Often, a canapé-bidder opens a 4-card suit where Left-Hand-Opponent has 4 or more cards making it more difficult for opponents to enter the bidding.
- Over a canapé-opening, opponents will sometimes overcall in openers 5+suit, making them vulnerable to penalty-doubles.
- When playing a strong-1♣ system, canapé openings can be used to resolve the mediocre 2♣-opening in many such systems (e.g. Precision Club and similar).
The following examples apply to some canapé systems but not all:
The hand ♠KQ73 ♥5 ♦AQJ94 ♣J54 is opened 1♠. If partner does not raise the spades, the diamond suit is introduced in the next bidding round. With the spade and diamond suits reversed (♠AQJ94 ♥5 ♦KQ73 ♣J54) the prescribed opening is 1♦ followed by a spade bid in the next round. The consequence of this approach is that on more balanced hands such as hands with a 4-4-3-2 distribution, only one four card suit can be introduced. With the hand ♠KQ73 ♥95 ♦AQJ4 ♣J54 a Canapé bidder will open 1♠ and following a 2♣ response rebid notrump. Hands with a 5-3-3-2 distribution are either opened in the five card suit followed by a notrump rebid (or a rebid in the same suit if the suit is solid), or in certain cases opened Canapé on a strong three card suit.
See also
References
- OCLC 560654187.