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Split it into a bunch of mini-matches and get the teams to arrange them privately?
Recruit a team of robots to make for a more manageable six-team format - can this be done? (Obviously the robots would not go forward to represent the county… -
I think if I were the challenged player, or indeed a director called to the table, my first question to the challenger would be, "what would you regard as a natural bid on that hand?"
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Maybe the wording of the thread title was provocative. I do know an explanation was requested and not given, and I have been told this is common practice on the part of the player in question, though it was the first time I had observed it first-…
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(Not that that's really the point of the exercise).
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Would most Wests really lead a diamond? I would definitely lead a trump on that bidding.
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I realise that now - obviously, I didn't at the time.
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While there is no automatic Undo, if you click on the little blue box with the three horizontal white lines you get an option of asking the opponents if they will let you change your card. (I forget the exact wording it uses).
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I have no idea what 2D meant (and I don't think the bidder did either as it had very little relevance to his actual holding), but I am reasonably confident the gentleman in question has never heard of Drury.
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@Peter it's perfectly simple.
Well no, it's slightly complicated, but I think my reading of the Laws is identical to yours.
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@Tag said:
(Quote)I did not omit this opportunity
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(Quote)Is that actually an option within the law?
I hadn't a clue without checking the law book, but as far as I can see by st… -
(Comment removed as research proved it redundant).
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I hope so too.
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@Sheba977 in the original case I'm not sure "table his cards" was accurate (yes, I know I wrote it). I think actually he began to do so and checked himself as the 50-split oc…
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Not sure why you need to make assumptions as to my preferences - I just thought it would be helpful from the candidate's point of view, and user-friendly from the EBU's, if specific guidelines for the TD were given alongside the law-book citation…
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Possibly of only marginal relevance, but I can't see how on earth 3NT makes on a Spade lead!
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Of course, the pauser might not have been considering a lead-directing double, he might have been considering, e.g., a Spade overcall?
That said, a double is certainly one of the likely options and if partner leads a D without good reason o… -
First printed in the Herald Tribune in the wake of the Reese-Schapiro cheating allegations.
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In the last case a player holding three hearts and two clubs, or indeed two hearts and one club, would surely be in honour bound to revert to H and failure to do so would be clear evidence of fielding.
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I've come across half a dozen different versions of the Multi, one of which I play with one of my regular partners (and was once told by a testy opponent "that's not the Multi at all", when I announced it as such and gave further detail when aske…
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I agree with Frances too, especially as Gordon does.
My personal feeling is that if declarer is careless enough to call for "run the suit" when the suit is not solid, he has given specific instructions to dummy to play the suit from the top… -
As I understand it 3H is totally acceptable as it specifies the same denomination as the IB at the lowest available level, which is a requirement of a correction to an insufficient bid whether or not it is strictly comparable (27B1(a)); however N…
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That looks like eight playing tricks to me, why would you not open a Benji 2C?
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@Seniorkibitzer I'm not sure whether anyone asked South directly for her reasons for bidding as she did, but we have since discussed the hand and her explanation was alm…
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Thanks Peter for the explanation, pardon my ignorance (and poor maths, 480.6 should be 506 even if it were worked out that way)
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I'm finding increasingly intriguing implications in some of these replies.
As it happened, 4H just made was the standard contract across the room, to the extent that the corrected score earned EW just 20 MP out of 38 to NS's 18.
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Thanks all for your input. Just to clarify one or two points that have arisen in the replies:
By "senior" I meant in terms of MP ranking and local repute rather than age (not that the latter implies caution in my experience, I know a few…
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Narrowest loser qualifies seems to make sense to me.
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Calling cards? How very Victorian.
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Thank you all for your input.
Re the first hand, as it was the first time the board had been played, I got them to redeal it (and play it at coffee break so as not to hold the rest of the room up) - so there was no penalty at all. Was th…