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The Golden Principles of Simplex

PRINCIPLE 0: Always open, overcall and respond with your clearly longest suit.
PRINCIPLE 4: There is no difference in the requirements for opening bids and overcalls. They share the same point-count range and the same suit-length requirements.
PRINCIPLE 9: Simplex is a fundamentally natural bidding system. The only gadgets used are 2♣ Redshift, 4NT Blackwood, and 2NT.
PRINCIPLE 10: Hands with trump support but less than 10 HCP bid immediately to their total trump level.
- For example, after a 1♥ opening by partner, a hand containing 6 HCP and four cards in the heart suit would immediately raise to 3♥. (Partner is known to have at least five hearts. Add those five to the four that responder has makes nine. Take six from nine means a raise to the 3-level.)
PRINCIPLE 11: If a bidder cannot make the first-round bid his hand merits (because the opposition have already taken the auction too high), the bidder simply doubles, with an implied message to partner: "RHO has just taken my opening bid away, and I believe it is safe for you to bid at this or one level higher."
PRINCIPLE 14: Simplex is designed so that the contract reached is, on most occasions, dealer-independent. That is, if all four players are Simplex bidders, the same contract should be reached, irrespective of who opened the bidding.

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 * <big> ''PRINCIPLE 0:'' '''Always open, overcall and respond with your clearly longest suit. </big>
 * <big> ''PRINCIPLE 4:'' '''There is no difference in the requirements for opening bids and overcalls.  They share the same point-count range and the same suit-length requirements.''' </big>
-* <big> ''PRINCIPLE 9:'' '''Simplex is a fundamentally natural bidding system. The only gadgets used are 2{{Cs}} Stayman, 4NT Blackwood, and 2NT.''' </big>
+* <big> ''PRINCIPLE 9:'' '''Simplex is a fundamentally natural bidding system. The only gadgets used are 2{{Cs}} Redshift, 4NT Blackwood, and 2NT.''' </big>
 * <big> ''PRINCIPLE 10'': '''Hands with trump support but less than 10 HCP bid immediately to their total trump level.''' </big>
 ** For example, after a 1{{Hs}} opening by partner, a hand containing 6 HCP and four cards in the heart suit would immediately raise to 3{{Hs}}. (Partner is known to have at least five hearts.  Add those five to the four that responder has makes nine.  Take six from nine means a raise to the 3-level.)