THE "CONVENTION 2012"

This agreement has been incorporated into the SEF 2018 edition.

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Your partner has opened 1 Sans-Atout, you have about fifteen HLD points and one (or two) major (s) 4th (s) , so you do a “2 ♣ Stayman” and your partner announces 4 cards in your major .

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How do you inform him that you want to seek a slam?

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Without this convention , you must call another forcing suit and, on the most likely call of 3 No-Trump,… the problems begin .

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The "2012 convention" makes it possible to process these sequences:

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After a “2 ♣ Stayman”, and a response of 2 ♥ or 2 ♠ , conventionally announcing the other major at the minimum level of 3 is forcing and means:

"Partner, we are fitt and the slam is to be sought."

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Let's go for the slam ...

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This agreement remains applicable to strong openings : 2 ♣, 2 ♦, 2 SA.