Frances
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Shorter summary: "very little"
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Doesn't sound surprising to me either.
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The most common is when declarer (or indeed a defender) starts to pull a card out of their hand, dummy can stop them if it's not their lead as long as it's before they have actually led the card.
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As others have said, the 2D opening is not 'Brown Sticker' under WBF definitions
'Suction' is also not Brown Sticker under WBF definitions, which for the most part only apply to opening bids and overcalls of a natural 1-of-a-suit opening.…
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Well, I didn't think it was obvious, at least to start with (although I am also now convinced)
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...if it's authorised for partner is it also authorised for fourth seat? By the same argument, they were the offending side, so should they be allowed to know opener was trying to 'stop' ?
What happened was the following:
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Gordon - I understand your distinction that comparison to an extraneous comment was irrelevant.
I am not sure what you think the answer is though - you are saying it is authorised (i.e. agreeing with Abbeybear and disagreeing with JeremyC…
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"play 5 rounds of Swiss and a Danish last round, with the provision that teams lying 1st/2nd after 5 round are guaranteed 1st or 2nd, and similarly for 3rd/4th."
Is this another way of saying you play 5 rounds of Swiss to qualify two fina…
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Yes it's a psyche
Passing it is fieldingOtherwise I agree with Robin
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I'd have to have recourse to 6D2 and say that they are playing the hand from a 'sorted deck' (a pack of cards not randomized from its prior condition) but that is definitely stretching it.
Everything Gordon says about the Law is right; th…
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If it isn't natural (defined as showing 3+ cards) then it is alertable. Assuming that this was their system - i.e. the bid showed a stopper which could be Ax/ Kx rather than length, then yes it should have been alerted.
The TD/AC have to…
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ais123:
If I were teaching the alert rules to new-ish players, I would just go with the following:
Alert
- if it isn't natural
- if opponents might be surprised by what it means
- If you a…
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Tag - there is definitely a point at which an announcement morphs into an alert, and sometimes the rules are not entirely explicit on when that should be.
For example, I play a 2C response to 1NT as promising at least invitational values,…
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A few comments.
In this forum (for example) you are entirely welcome to question to rules. They will improve the more people raise questions/issues or disagreements - even if they aren't changed as a consequence, the L&E will…
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I think it's too late to alert the pass as 'may not have diamonds', also I don't think this is necessarily required - the pass says 'if this ends the auction I am happy' which seems to me to be the unalertable meaning of pass.
The multi w…
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The outcome of what you have said is correct, but I think Gordon's explanation of the motivation is right. It is not so much that you are 'entitled' to protect yourself by delaying, it is that the old Laws gave an advantage to people who didn't …
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I don't think it's routine. And I think a poll along the lines of 'we haven't discussed what pass means here, do you stick or pull'' is entirely relevant.
I would also ask if there's been any discussion about 1D (natural) 2D overcall (ma…
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That depends on the short club. If the only time a club is two is on precisely a 4-4-3-2 distribution that's true. If they open 1C on all weak NTs, including those with 5 diamonds (or even including those with a 5-card major), it isn…
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What ais523 just said
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You are right, that the existence of the illegal agreement could have affected the results on other boards. I think adjusting on that basis typically comes into the 'too difficult' category.
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They are, by default, surely Alice and Bob (and hence eligible to play in mixed events)
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AlanB: you are talking about a different auction.
I don't think a double of a 1-level opening is alertable as long as it is ostensibly a 'normal' t/o double and 4th hand is expected to bid.If you are playing 1NT 2H x as 'any 10+' t…
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From a philosophical viewpoint, if more and more people are bidding in a particular way, that argues for it not being alertable, rather than the opposite - alerts are supposed to draw the opponents' attention to anything unusual.
We used …
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Is the 'pet hate' of yours because boards get fouled as a consequence, or do you just not like it for some other reason? As long as people are careful, I don't see the problem and if it adds to their enjoyment of the evening, why not?
Th…
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Well, no, you will find about 16 useful posts about it, 115 irrelevant and unhelpful posts about it, and 115 posts about something entirely different.
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I do. I'll change to something else when it stops working.
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I really think you are out on a limb here. If you ask 'how do you evaluate maximum and minimum' in a bridge lesson I might talk about experience, about honours in the long suits, about good pips, about aces being worth more than 4 poi…
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It's a common treatment in America that "4th suit" bids are natural in an already game forcing auction e.g. (uncontested) 1H - 2C - 2S - 3D would be 4th suit forcing for virtually every English player I know and natural for many Americ…
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Bear in mind that with the common ranges of 12-14, 13-15, 14-16, 15-17 that means (roughly) accepting with half of hands and rejecting with half.