Martin
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To me, playing non-promissory Stayman, 1NT - 2C; 2H - 2S shows an invitational hand with 4S. 1NT - 2C; 2H - 2N shows invitational hand without 4S. 1NT - 2C; 2H - 3N shows game values with 4S (otherwise, without the 4S, one can immediately respo…
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I mean in the the sense that if you agree that opening 1S shows 0-7 HCP, that this is an illegal agreement - thusly making a 1S bid whilst this agreement is in place is utilising an illegal agreement.
Making the 1S opening bid …
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> @Jaded said:
> On a point of pedantry, if a particular agreement is illegal, then a bid that utilises that agreement is also illegal because to say you can't have an i… -
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This is the 1st time I have come across the term 'frivolous psyching' and a google search ensued. I found a definition from the ACBL: "Frivolous Psychic Bidding — Any psychic action inspired by a spirit of malicious
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For what it is worth, I was shown this hand on Wednesday, with the question, "playing 5-card majors and strong NT, your partner opens 1D and you have this hand... what do you bid?" My answer was, "I don't like that, I probably respond 2C and jus…
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Would, “…freedom for third hand to think about the deal generally…” not mean that 3rd in hand has time to consider not just what card to play to trick one, but also consider more generally the hand and how to play?
This is not in and of i…
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The problem with that approach is that an unscrupulous pair that finds themselves in a mess in the bidding on the last board of a round, can just bid very slowly and get an average; whereas actually playing the hand would result in a poor score.<…
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I teach mine a number of laws as we go - announcing and alerting and essentially tell everyone to call the director if there is any issue - bids out of turn, revokes etc, as the laws are complex, ever changing and we want to ensure that issues ar…
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Thank you :)
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Would it be legal to have an agreement that 2C is intermediate to strong, obviously alerted and advised as such when asked?
I know that a lot of Benji players consider 2C to be 8 playing tricks in an unspecified suit - here, there are 9 p…
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Thanks for your help... while manually comparing the XML file you emailed to me to the XML from Scorebridge I noticed a few differences in formatting. I was looking at manually adjusting and then feeding back to Scorebridge to try and get an update…
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Hi Jonathan, I have taken a look at the XML file and pair numbers were included - 1-9 for NS and 10-18 for EW.
When I look at the x-IMPs in Bridgewebs it showed separate results for NS and EW and each half had pair numbers 1-9. So I repl…
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Ah, many thanks for that, I will sort out the file from my end.
It is not a big job to manually input pair numbers into the xml file, so I will do that.
For now I have deleted the previous upload and will re-submit -
Many thanks :)
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It uploaded okay but says 'no pairs data' where NGS SOF normally shows.
Handicaps are being processed manually and separately, so it is just raw teams data sent.
Our club's number is 202455 if that's useful to check? -
I think that the logic behind not cancelling the hand is that if you obviously find yourself in a mess over the bidding in a hand... just go into the tank while 'thinking' about what to do next. Eventually the director removes the board from pla…
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I think 2S-2 unless the table result was better for the NOS
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Is this a case that it depends on how the bid is described?
7C1c says that a call is okay weaker if 2-suited and neither of the 2 suits are the opened suit.
Here 2D open shows 4-4 in the majors (allowed). As an aside, it als… -
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Why do you think that hand appears to have been suitable for a 1C bid, when we have not seen the hands or had a description of them?
It is relatively standard in 2/1 that 1D shows 4+ Diamonds and 1C shows 2+ clubs... In this c…
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"... then the 1D bid should be alerted because it now means ‘either a balanced 12-14 point 1NT or a genuine diamond 12-19 points."
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> I would want to know why opener bids after a 1NT response sometimes but not others when it appears that they are holding the same power/shape hands.
I think that the short answer is that the opener should always pass with a balanced 12-14 after 1D - 1NT.
The other bidding sequences I gave were an attempt to explain what this is the case.
Opener only passes the 1NT when ba…Also, my understanding is that most playing this system will upgrade all good 14 counts to 1NT. So if they have 14 it will be 4432 or 4333 shape, as 5332 shapes get upgraded.
So they may miss the occasional 14-11 3NT games, but they also stay…On the basis that responder has not called a new suit at the 2 level we know less than 12 points.
In that context an 'invitational hand would be 10/11 points.
Opener would choose to pass if they would not accept the invitation to game vi…the NT response would deny an unbid 4+ card major.
One might pass a 1NT response in cases where you would pass and invitational bid.... such as:
1D - 1NT
2C - 2NT - if you are going to pass the 2NT bid, then you might as wel…Also I had this twice...
1NT - 2C
2H - 3NT
4S - 6S - with a terrible hand that had just enough for game. Had similar after a 2NT open too
Had the same sequence with their standard 2/1 system robot and it sensibl…A few things come to mind...
I see the primary function of a director is to make for pleasant evening where people enjoy themselves and come back next week. With 10-12 tables it seems that you are achieving that goal.
With …you would only apply an assigned score if the NOS did not gain 3 IMPs or more at the table...
For example, if the NOS scored 2 IMPs (and the offending side -2), then correct to +3 and -3
If the NOS scored 4 IMPs, then they have alre…I don't think that the bid is illegal in and of itself.
It may not meet the requirements for a 'strong hand', however, this is for agreements rather than for the bids themselves. This in no way precludes the option for a player to ignore t…I have seen this a couple of times at the club with shared boards and electronic scoring via tablets - someone doesn't enter the board number and scores their hand as an incorrect board... normally everyone sees the result... we scored 3NT by N m…