Tag
Comments
-
I have a 60-odd-page system document with one of my partners and, over the past year, being able to reference it at need, I think each of us has forgotten much of the system. I used to revisit and revise many of the less-frequented parts of the s…
-
We have half a dozen new TDs who qualified just before lockdown and have yet to direct a session. For myself, I'm just hoping that I can recall enough to be useful and relatively fair.
-
I once had an odd situation where I had briefly forgotten the agreement and made a bid. Partner forgot the agreement in exactly the same manner as I forgot it and gave the explanation I would have given were I self-alerting. I won the contract an…
-
(Quote)
I once tried a short test. I internally did a count of ten seconds. The person with me reckoned it was around 15 seconds, the stop-watch said 12 seconds.
-
After the jump bid, South was required to pause for 10 seconds, so it's not unreasonable for there to have been a delay of more than 10 seconds in making the pass call. I'd also suggest that, at this level of player, South could have been expecte…
-
There's still no getting away from the fact that there are always some people going to be caught out by what is, essentially, a bug in BBO of the "unexpected action" variety, as the cards are re-arranged prior to the first trick. A player clicks …
-
With claims of revoke, I have usually told them to call me back after they've played the last trick. It's not always a simple matter to resolve a revoke but, while play is still continuing, I also don't feel that declarer is entitled to the certa…
-
I appreciate what you are saying, Gordon. My point, however, is that the card I clicked on was not the card that the system played to the first trick. It played a card that I had not clicked on, a card other than the one I had clicked on.
No that's not what I mean at all. I played the spade, as in that was the card I pointed at and clicked on, but the system threw out the King of trumps for me. I certainly didn't "play" the King even though it might have seemed that way to anyone …
I just got caught out by the opening shuffle on BBO. Instead of leading out a doubleton in partner's suit against 6C, the system played the King of trumps for me for a difference of around 25 imps and turning what I think would have been a 20-0 w…
There is a face-to-face equivalent of what Barrie posted from BCL. I've occasionally caught myself daydreaming on the first round of bidding and not realised that the bidding has come around to me. I might then pull out the pass card and accompan…
When playing online, there are many things which can cause an apparent break in tempo from the dog barking to getting a hair in your optical mouse to having to get up to take a leak while the previous player has decided to stop to think to having…
I agree that opponents are entitled to the "undiscussed" part of the alert but I'm not fond of the addition of "probably natural". On the other hand, you do have an agreement that it's not a splinter, so the hearts are real. I guess the true poin…
I've never been fond of trying to trap players into admitting to an agreement they don't have.
The crux of the hand, I suspect, is that they just had no clue as to how to bid it and decided that a forcing 2C was as good a start as any.
I had a hand recently when I asked about one of declarer's bids during the play of the hand. Silence... I asked again... Silence. Partner asked her to respond and after a few seconds we got a reply of "Thinking". About 30s later she proposes that…
I've had a claim rejected when I've claimed zero tricks.
The situation here could depend on whether the card was actually played or merely detached from the hand before declarer realised his mistake and had not yet played the card. See Law 45.
Unless declarer had placed the card on the table, t…
28B2 applies for a call out of rotation by an opponent. If North accepts the 1H bid then East has lost his chance to bid by his partner's action. If North declines the 1H bid then East may insist on his 1D bid, cancelling the 1S bid, and both par…
In a Precision system, opening 1D on a singleton is not uncommon.
I have encountered a few pairs who, when asked about their discards, offer that they often false-card when they think it is more likely to mislead declarer than partner.
Playing Precision, I'd open 1D on a 1345 hand but, of course, that would be alerted. In a supposedly natural system with an agreed 1D/2C handling of that shape, 1D is the start of a potential canapé and should be alerted.
(Quote)As I see it, the first lead was made and then the defender gratuitously faced another card. He can't change his played card (the first one), even if declarer would like him to change it. The second card simply becomes a MPC, with all t…
Isn't that called trolling? :)
I have one partner with whom I play attitude on opening lead and thereafter discard what we don't need unless something clearly significant pops out. It's an interesting way to play, having to work out the hand from what partner seems not to care…
I'm sure we can all imagine some large number of ways in which a fumble might happen but they all fall far short of making what could reasonably be called a play.
The actions of detaching and facing imply deliberate intent. The Laws referenced don't say anything about a card that becomes detached and falls to the table, thus facing itself. It is an exposed card, not a played one.
@Vlad... Laws 45 A, B and C define what is a played card. None of these include a card accidentally dropped. Most odd that anyone would suggest that the second card was played.
Simply because they knew something about partner's hand that we didn't, which could become relevant in the card-play or even when making a decision in the bidding. As I said, I got over it.
I played a strong club, five-card majors system …
I used to have a small bugbear about people not pre-announcing 5-card majors but I've learned to adapt. "Could be short" is fine but I still think it would be nicer to have a heads-up beforehand. Similarly, whenever someone is playing a system ot…