5 card majors the scanian way

Aurelio Mascheroni: A modern five-cards majors bridge system 10 Opener rebids 1NT (balanced hands 12/14): the "Modified two-way Stayman" convention 10

advantage Suppose responder has an invitational hand with four-card major and a long minor Bidding - the Scanian Way") and the Italian, Leandro Burgay

(may contain a 5-card major if 5332) Opener's 10+ pts (unbalanced) 6 + card suit = bid game in long suit, or if minor, bid 3NT 5 card suit Lebensohl (a method of dealing with the opponents' interference of partner's 1NT opening, which

Two-way checkback came later, and XYZ increases the applicability two fold • Major suit fit finding is enhanced • After a 1NT response a weak responder can 

classic 1NT opening, 15-17 HCP without a 5-card major; ❑ 2♧ and 2♢ Treatment modified from the " Scanian Way ", that uses transfer to the majors 

I recommend aggressively upgrading 19 HCP hands with a 5-card major to 2NT In this sequence we play a more classical two-way checkback system than the

The popular “Journalist” leads use the ace to ask for unblocking of a face card held, such as the puerile “Ace asks for attitude, king asks for count” also have no way to not to have four cards in the suit (as when denying a major in response to Stayman), dummy, Scanian (“upside-down”) signals apply (see section 1-6)