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Your sound on BBO comes from sound bites residing on your own computer. You only need to change volumen for them. I use 2 computers. The one with BBO I connect to the other one. The other one is connected to amplifier. So it is not so difficult to change everything according to your private preferences.

Oh sorry - I am commenting x after 1C-1H-X assuming meaning responder bid double. Glad to hear I am wrong!

Hmm - it was 2-2-6-3 and 6 points. I hope you can pass or stay away from serious precision play.

Responder is violating basic of precision - principle of captaincy. With 6 point and no shape the response is pass.

Helene I took a brief look into Terence Reese - Acol today. He has a discussion about FSF from page 156. Looks like you and your partner are talking on different wavelength. As I understood FSF in 1-2 level is forcing one round and higher forcing until a depressing message arrives. Looks rubbish to me. If you dont have the book yourself I have it uploaded to bridgefiles.

Helene the treaty is a mirror of the french political system. What is left of the german system is a strong constitution court. The commission will change focus to have the legislation passed through the parliament which body will have more importance according to the treaty. I think Barosso has done a good job, so even he in that way have got many enemies, I think he will be prolonged. There will be a new and strong focus on European Central Bank, and I think France will insist to stay ahead there. It is for the president of EU to negotiate world economy into a human face according to european tradition. Hard clashes with USA are likely to come as well as much discussions about military spenditures. Angela Merkel knows very well she right now has momentum. Her future in Germany is likely to be nothing else than leader of the parliamentary opposition to the first traffic-light coalition(red-yellow-green) and a president for Germany from FDP. Later it is most likely she will face even more hostile political landscape in Germany(red-red-green). A 6-party system might very well be the outcome of the Bayern elections this autumn. For Angela Merkel it is likely to be now or never.

It is no ceremonial position Helene. It is tough politic. Thats is why Mr. Blair is not qualified. It is much about producing politic through mediation. The british political system cannot even come near to produce political credentials for such. EU is largest world economy and therefore in future the most important player to Russia, India and China. Thats what the job is about and thats here Angela Merkel has outstanding credentials. But until ratification of the new treaty there is no job. And we are many hoping for Ireland to turn that treaty down.

Tony Blair has no friends at the continent. He has friends in Washington but nowhere else. He will have the job as secretary general for NATO if he wants it. UK is the country least integrated into the european structure. UK pays reduced part of the budget. Tony Blair has the wrong position about Turkey and his monetarism is no longer popular by the socialdemocrats. Last but not least, if that post will be for a candidate from a big country then it will be from Germany. German politic has been much complicated after Die Linke has come into Hessen and Niedersachsen and next week will be elected in Hamburg too. I will not be surprised if Angela Merkel will be interested and then she will have the job. But if not I think Juncker, Schüssel and Fogh Rasmussen will have fair chances unless they need to look more eastwards. A finnish candicate will be strong I think.

It has been voiced that the archbishop is very well educated in Philosophy. Just as the pope Kardinal Ratzinger and most clericals I assume. I doubt very much there is anything to blame them for lack of knowledge. The problem is in fact not what he said - but that he said something at all. Thats the evidence that he intent some changes in favour of religion. That is what is dangerous. The real intensions will never be revealed - such comes as a thief during the night. They put pressure on society - in the same way as the catholic inquisition was able to do for hundreds of years som hundred years ago. When will we hear from P2 again?

Richard - what are the muslims really doing? This morning 2 marrocain muslims were arrested for conspirency to murder against the drawers from the cartoons in Jyllands-Posten. What did the danish muslim community do?. Immediately they sent out a press release with the threat they were no longer able to control the radical muslims. That was the community which sent representatives to the Middle-East 2 years ago asking for muslims leaders to ban Denmark imposing their fatwa. Today we are in a better position to fight back. All danish newspapers are this time united. Today they have all made a reprint of the cartoons. Laws have been tightened. You will hear more from that very soon I assume.

Sharia is for everyone - articles from Der Spiegel in english text

The Archbishop does not talk about Sharia replacing secular laws, but rather, supplementing the secular legal system. Certainly he does so. The point of that is for some persons this kind of laws to be obeyed and for others some other kind of laws to be obeyed. And this is step 1 only. What comes next is not so difficult to imagine. Else he would have nothing to say at all. Agree?

So it is and so it has always been. Nothing new about that. What the archbishop says is that special segments of the population must have rights to be judged by their own religious laws replacing the secular laws. Thats what is causing the uprise and thats what is new.

Yes it is and some have been convicted.

I have no intensions to discuss your sequences. Makes no sense. You are on a wrong track.

First of all, you have this backwards. 2♥/♠X making 8 tricks is 470/670, and 1♥/♠X making 8 tricks is the lesser score. Second of all, are you really arguing that responder should never raise because you might play in 1MX? That's what it looks like to me, though I have a hard time understanding your posts. Pity you have problems to understand. It is all very simple. I say 1M-DBL-2M is silly and forbidden. After 1M-DBL you wait for opps. It is not for you to take them out of the fryin pan. Huh?? Surely you raise your partners opeing to the 2-level if that's what your hand is worth. Get it off your chest and help partner. Besides, it's harder for opps to compete for the partscore if their fit is in a minor suit (or hearts when we've got spades). I really don't understand what you're talking about here. I always help partner but I wait until I am sure I will not help opps. instead. Who really knows from the very beginning whether to be declarer or to double opps. instead. If you have game-going values you simply RDBL. Partner will remain silent until you have finished your dispute with opps. and clarified your real holding. A simple 3 card support for partner leaves 10 cards open for possible better and later use.

First of all, you have this backwards. 2♥/♠X making 8 tricks is 470/670, and 1♥/♠X making 8 tricks is the lesser score. Second of all, are you really arguing that responder should never raise because you might play in 1MX? That's what it looks like to me, though I have a hard time understanding your posts. Pity you have problems to understand. It is all very simple. I say 1M-DBL-2M is silly and forbidden. After 1M-DBL you wait for opps. It is not for you to take them out of the fryin pan. I say 1M-DBL-3M/4M might be sensible for preempt. Please note you bid game score here: 1M-DBL-RDBL, that make sense too because it still put pressure on opps.

Lebensohl is starting here: 1M-DBL, but that makes no sense. Here you play something else than assuming 1M to be a preemptive opening. You normally play Sputnik. What you define 2NT to, I dont care, but it is not Sputnik. 1♥-Dbl-2♥ to 1♠-Dbl-2♠, Maybe you dont understand why this is silly. It is that silly that it ought to be time for you to leave the table instead of wasting your time for incompetent players. Take a look into scoring table and you will see why I am right. 1♥♠-Dbl, for 8 tricks won........................: 470/670 1♥-Dbl-2♥ or 1♠-Dbl-2♠, for 8 tricks won: 260/360 Low level contracts doubled/redoubled are the most profitable contracts in bridge. Therefore you always need to bid tactically according to scoring table. There is no way to aquire better score for 13 tricks than 1nt RDBL. This is 3160. If you bid 7nt RDBL you will gain 2980.

Not so difficult. I say 1M-DBL is unlikely to be Lebensohl. Normally it is Sputnik but can of course be something else. I say 2M-DBL is perfect for Lebensohl. All ought to play such - but it is rather difficult. I say 1M-DBL-2M is rubbish.

If opps were to open on 12 hcp and respond on 5 all the time, you could use 2NT as something else. Nowadays people open light and respond light, which creates a need to distinguish between a good 3m bid and a bad one. In fact, 1M dbl 2M ?? isn't much different from 2M dbl pass ?? Aha 1M dbl 2M ?? -This is beginner bridge - taking out partners options for game for 7. 3M might make sense but not 2M. 2M dbl pass ?? - This is sensible for both parties and Lebensohl is right here.

I doubt very much you use Lebensohl here. Lebensohl is a tool to be used over preemptive features. In these auctions you will be in deep trouble using Lebensohl looking for fit at 3-4 level. DBL shows a good hand with no good place to stand. Something like 10-20HcP and 2-3-4-4/1-3-4-5. It is rarely wise to use a major suit as a relay after 2NT. It is not wise to ask partner for a suggestion without intensions to listen.

Copy/paste I use but in Word. Then you can create as a link. Then you copy the link and it is pasted as text. You have no problems to secure you have the full text. But No. 1 is real script. The most advanced and easy to use tool is 'Phrase Express'.

This is not the first time, not the second time and not the last time that a tiny and atomized minority try to persuade an overwhelming majority to pay attention to them. The majority and their elected representatives are fully legitimized to impose rules pleasing the majority and really nobody else. It is for a minority to try to join forces to be able to put pressure. All organizations, even bridge organizations, have special sections to be able to serve all best possible. Unfortunately it is so that those interested in re-vitalization of bridge are unable to find 2 persons to agree on anything. They are united in a rejection front but unable to come up with something constructive themselves. Claus Sønderkøge

The problem bid here is 2NT. Use 'New minor forcing'. 1♠-1NT-2♣=New Minor Forcing 1♠-1NT-2♣-2♦=5+♥ 1♠-1NT-2♣-2♥=*If 12-17cP: Trans -> ♠ *If 18+cP: ASK attitude 1♠-1NT-2♣-2♥-2♠=12-17cP 1♠-1NT-2♣-2♥-2♠-Pass=To Play 1♠-1NT-2♣-2♥-2NT=18-19HcP,bal

No the suit below clubs is spades