Posted 2022-April-19, 10:25
It's a somewhat common agreement to have 1nt bidder pass over the double of a transfer bid with only 2 cards, and accept with 3+ cards. This allows say a 2-suited 5-5 responder to choose their other suit to play in.
After it gets passed around to you, if you want to sign off at 2M you can either bid the major yourself, or with most agreements, redouble as a "re-transfer" to get partner to bid it. Other bids retain their natural meanings, but one can make distinctions between say direct bids vs re-transfer then another bid. Like 3m without redoubling to retransfer can be to play, while 3m after a redouble could be normal and forcing.
As for what GIB will do, how it will interpret things, you'd have to examine the hover tips carefully and hope they are accurate, I don't know if it will interpret rdbl sequences reasonably or not, I wouldn't count on it. Load up deals on a practice table and find out.
The results are typically bizarre.
My question is: In normal bridge is it correct to pass the transfer here?
And what does South bid after North passes?
I bid 2H which was doubled and made 2HSX-3 for 800.