Namyats

Namyats

In the cardgame bridge Namyats denotes the conventional agreement to open hands with a long major suit that are too strong for a direct preemptive opening with a 'two-under' transfer bid. The method was originally named 'Four Club and Four Diamond Opening Transfers', and is also referred to as 'Mitchell Transfers', after the developer of this bidding method, Victor Mitchell. The name 'Namyats' is the name of Mitchell's bridge partner, Stayman, spelled backwards.

When playing Namyats, a one-suited hand too strong for a preemptive opening, like

9
A K Q 10 8 6 5 3
4
A J 7

can be opened with a 4 bid. This allows the partnership to explore for slam by deploying a conventional one-step (4) relay response. In case partner has no slam interest a two-step response is made that completes the bidding. Also, a slam can be bid directly over the opening with sufficient strength. Hence, the responses to both Namyats openings can be summarised as:

4 - ??

4 : slam interest
4 : to play
6 : to play

4 - ??

4 : slam interest
4 : to play
6 : to play

The advantage of Namyats is that the it allows the partnership to narrow the range of hands opened in a major suit at the one-level and rebid in a later round. Also, the method may prevent the opponents to enter the bidding despite having a cheap sacrifice against the major suit game indicated by the Namyats opening. Disadvantage is that the 4 and 4 bids are no longer available as preempts, although proponents of the method argue that this is hardly a disadvantage as such preempts are hardly made in practice out of fear to bypass a making game in notrump.

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