Ace Showing Responses

Used with strong two-club openings (at least 23 points).

Any minimum response (other than a negative one) shows the ace of the suit bid. The responses to a conventional 2-club bid would be:

2 diamonds negative

2 hearts or spades ace-showing

2 N/T at least 8 points, but aceless

3 clubs or diamonds ace-showing

3 N/T two aces

A difficulty I see here is that as 2 clubs is an unnatural bid (shows strong hand but says nothing about clubs), a conventional response showing an ace (S,H,D,C) could also be a "non-suit". This could mean that the strong hand is played as dummy while the closed hand could have no more than the ace of the suit bid. The "aceless" bid of N/T has the same result if N/T ends up as the contract.

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