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King Canute wanted to prove to his courtiers that he was not all powerful, because they kept flattering him. So he was the winner of the argument. well, my exploration of data series this morning suggests that if America has any non-tax revenue sources, they represent less than one percent of gdp. So I am pleased that, like king knut, I am the winner of this argument :) PS: just looked on wikipedia about king canute, seems like the story is probably apocryphal :(

Some stuff cannot be copyrighted, for example, if you extract a hand played by a wc player at a bbo vugraph to use for teaching, that is already in the public domain, and the actions of that wc player are also. I have seen hands extracted from BBO being published in books, I doubt that BBO gets royalties from it. What the author in question has copyrighted is the layout presented in his book and the comments he created. If yoiu have the book and post on the net one or two hands and document it, ie, joebridge says in page 20 blah blah blah, that is fair use. If you copy a whole chapter of his book and sell it, then that is copyright infirngement. I think the rules of bridge should be copyrighted under the same conditions as cooking recipes are. The list of ingredients, and instructions, cannot be copyrighted. So, if you use a hand from mollo's menagerie, the hand and bidding and play is not copyrighted. What is copyrighted is the Rabbit`s joke.

For the the 2C openers (not me), did you take a look at your example hands? Opponents have a total of 22 points and we have 10(!) spades between us. I highly doubt that the auction is going to die out at 1S.

Close between pass and 6C, I think I'd pass because of the bad suit quality. I would assume that 3NT really shows an honest (5332) shape. If so, I don't think that there is anything wrong with it. Will all those people writing that 3NT shows 15-17 in 2/1 stop it, the OP knows better what he plays than you.

I pass Double: sounds like fun, but tends to destroy partnerships when one takes such misleading, unilateral action. Does anyone really have a style in which double includes this hand? 1♦: well, 1♦ is anti-preemptive in that it creates bidding space for the opps, rather than destroying it. LHO can show both majors at once via a negative double, and his 1N takes on a more defined meaning, so one should have a reason for introducing diamonds....one should feel, for example, that a diamond lead against notrump is best. Yet with our majors, we'd be happy if partner felt, on an uncontested auction, that a major suit was better. And we have support for both majors, and yet want to encourage partner to bid/raise diamonds when we have a poor suit, and a weak, soft hand? Not me. Bidders may have more fun most of the time, but smart bidders have even more fun and fewer regrets. I'm a passer for now....but maybe I'll get another chance, and, if not, I doubt I'll be unhappy.