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With the help of the next table of relative chances for 1¨-opening-hands the number of hands must be reduced to a number that is practical in bidding.
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Studying the table we observe that there is not much difference in the frequency between 11-12-hands and 13-14-hands. By taking them together we reach a reduction of nearly 50%. It is not a severe omission, when the responder does not know your strength more exactly from the rebid.
Further on we note that hands with a 6+card in diamonds are very rare. It seems sufficient to distinguish only between 3-, 4-, and 5+cards. This gives a considerable reduction again. If there are more then 5 diamonds, the opener can show this to the responder in several ways. It does not need to be done in the first rebid.
There is no reason to inform the responder always about your length in the major suits. He knows already that in category A (95% of all 1¨ openings), you never have 4 or more cards in a major suit.
From the probability data (the last table) he knows (or at least should know) that 85% of the 1¨-opening-hands contain at least one 3-card in a major suit; this goes for the 11-12-hands as well as for the 13-14-hands. These two facts make it worthwhile to develop a convention (MaD+, 3-5-MAs-fit-explorer after Diamond opening), which enables the responder to explore the 3-5-fit in the major suit of which he holds a 5-card. Only after the initiation of the convention, the opener will deny or confirm his 3-card major suit in his rebid.
In case of a strong 1¨ opening, the opener will show eventually (in 78% of the relevant hands) his 4-card major suit by bidding this suit on 2-level (MaD+++, 4-4-MAs-fit-explorer after Diamond opening). So it is indeed necessary here to distinguish between possessing a 4-card major suit and not having such a 4-card.
In this way the number of hand-descriptions for 1¨-openings has been very much reduced, as can be observed in the concluding table in the original 1¨-page, the one you left in order to read this separate sheet.
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