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Anything but pass is Game Force. 1)Double=4+♦, invite pass for penalty 2)I dont take this double serious as the end of the auction clearly indicates responder is not qualified 3)5♣ 4)pass-pass-1♣-3♦ 3♥(5+♥ or 4+♥ + 4+♠)-pass-3♠-pass 4♦(slam try, ♠ agreed)-pass-5♣(CUE)-pass 5♥(CUE)-pass-5♠(CUE)-pass 6♠(CUE)-pass-pass-pass

I wondered this discussion. I remember I learned Goren openings, 4 card major. 4-4-4-1 openings - open the suit below the singleton. I took a look into Terence Reese - Acol today 1961 - same advice for acol. Open the suit below the singleton. Easy to remember and you find fit in 2-level.

As 99,9% plays nothing but Whist FD is best assuming opps. to be pure natural and manually to enter special defense into alert playing against strong systems. Playing on ZONE it is so that if you enter something into the alert box the explanation from the convention card is suppressed and not visible for that specific bid. On BBO both explanations are visible. For us playing strong systems nothing of such creates any kind of problems.

Disable 'constructive' in 'settings' will allow you to enter opps. and your actions over that.

Yes it can. Pass openings are 3-4 seat openings(responses to pass-openings). You alert the pass-opening manually. 8-12 openings are 1-2 seat openings. Defense is 1 seat defense Copy/paste of tree structure works well but sometimes it looks a bit odd if you paste something from defense to offensive or vice versa. Then close the application and open again. Claus Sønderkøge

I wonder the reason why these are missing on the proposed list: - Harold S. Vanderbilt, creator of club systems - Eugenio Chiaradia, chief theorist behind Blue Team, which was the most successful team ever - Bobby Goldman, creator of Scientific Aces which is the basis for the most popular system approach today 2o1 - Lukasz Slawinskii, creator of 8-12/pass systems Most of the persons on the list I see most as moderators of others inventions but not as theorists. Claus Sønderkøge

Pure rubbish. Yesterday I reported a phising mail to Paypal Security Team. I received a mail stating correct sender - the site I entered was a true copy of Paypal site. All formalia fully correct. Paypal confirmed immediately to me it really was a phising mail - and they started immediately to work to reduce possible damage this site may cause to thousends of innocent persons. What made me suspicious was that the mail arrived to me in the wrong mailbox, not the one I use for Paypal. Second the site I entered my Ebay account guide verified it was no verified Ebay site. The security measures saved me from bank-robbery. You don't think this is worth a little time or?

Ray's Bridge Ladder is the answer to your request. It has been there for 6-7-8 years now. Subscription fee ensures non-serious persons to stay away. bridgeFILES and Ray's Bridge Ladder are the only 2 spots on WEB exclusively targeting upper segment in bridge. You have never supported my proposal for premium service on BBO. Claus Sønderkøge

I am very pleased to see the announcement of the new BBO-TV. It is very good news for the perspectives of bridge. I am very pleased to acknowledge that BBO management is now going for technological inventions. The handheld devices are a key technology to be able to lift at least some of the restrictions which have tarnished bridge for many years now. Those have threatened to kill the game completely. The appaling approach from the regulators will soon dry up for arguments against creativity. The flash technology for harddrives and for applications are the future. I am very pleased to see BBO management in this way will be supporting those bridge federations which are most in favour of technological progress for bridge. Poland, Finland and USBF looks like front-runners. It is also very positive I think that I have noticed the vice-chairman of EBF Jens Auken is a frequent guest on BBO. I am very pleased to notice from Fred's comments that convention card feature will be an important issue. The database and the ability to make queries will be a hard task - but it is the keyfeature to be able to de-regulate bridge. That will also be the way for bridge to turn down the screens for a more relaxed but still faire milieu. BBO-TV is very good news for off-line bridge and has very little to do with online bridge. My prediction is that first steps of de-regulation will take place for Bermuda Bowl 2011. After that I think we will se a quick trickle down effect to take place. My best wishes Fred Claus Sønderkøge

Mike your computer is now in serious danger. As the mail didn't ask you to do anything the only purpose was to download malicious code to your computer for stealing passwords. Don't login to your bankaccount or any other important site using password until you have cleaned your computer. Contact your bank immediately and block your account until you are sure your computer has been cleaned. See to your passwords will be changed immediately. Try to run a special scan of your computer and see if it finds anything. The secure way of course is to format your harddrive and I think it is the only secure way for you. Ebay knows all about that - it is in fact one of the topics most important to them. Their whole business is based on security. Never enter anything to Ebay or Paypal unless your 'account guard' has confirmed you are on a verified Ebay site. All info will then be forwarded in encrypted mode. Ebay and Paypal never ask for anything via ordinary mail. They only mail members and you can see in text without the need to open that your Ebay name is included in the text.

Certainly not. I have by Ben earlier been informed that BBO never do such. I have certainly not opened the mail. I reported it unopened as spam - my message here is to report warning others of this phising attack. It is very dangerous to open such kind of mails. - I think it will be right of BBO to send a warning on BBO. I assume many have received this mail.

I have just received a phising mail pretending to be send from: Bridge Base Online. Topic is stated as: BBO: Please validate {BBOT#11764696900.2... Probably no enclosure as size is 1KB.

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Occasionally I have had same problem. In Remotekeys it is about last command: /APP.ACTIVATION.LAST /APP.OPEN file[,par]

I have removed 'Mega Sound recorder' application from the computer. The NewDotNet is no longer detected.

Opener is asked for preferences - so DBL is a non-cooperative call which ought not to be used.

Ken - first please remember bridge is a game about MAJORs. Whether you hold them or not. This important point is all too easy to forget playing standard systems. All strong systems are based on that and try in different ways to cope with this. Some systems are created in that way your openings discloses a fairly exact holding of majors. This means something about your question 4♠+6♦. First to the resources: The system book is: Benito Garozzo/Leon Yallouze: The Blue Club Containment of this book I have extracted into files ready to use available from bridgeFILES web-sites. http://bridgefiles.net/Picture/BOOK-BlueClub.jpg There are 2 big books containing a wide range of examples: Pietro Forquet: Bridge with the Blue Team Benito Garozzo/Pietro Forquet: The Italian Blue Team Bridge Book http://bridgefiles.net/Picture/BOOKBlueTeam.jpg Round is my term for forcing, others use the notation F1/F2 - same meaning. As I stated earlier 1♥-2♠ is an invitation(8-11HcP, normally 5+♠). Holding 5HcP to partners possible MAX(16HcP) you want to find a safe spot for a part score. What you bid depends therefore of your expectations coming from partner. If your holding is 2♥ you keep the bidding open. Bid 1♠ and pass partners ♥ rebid. If partner comes up with ♣ you introduce your ♦. If you cannot stand 2♥ as a contract you close the auction via pass/1NT.

Thats not necessary. Color - could even be a museum for modern art Illness - looking for somewhere some special treatments Blind - Helene they probably know some basic info about you: Middle age dutch woman and your income level, marriage and children. Now they place you in a skeleton and update that. On that basis you are offered - decline/accept the offers means your record will be updated.

Much too simple Helene - you know better than that!

Because it is not based on your email correspondance. They probably have a much more detailed knowledge of you - maybe even more detailed and systematic than you would would like to know yourself.

Looks rhetoric to me Ken. In case your question really is serious the options for 5HcP, 4♠ are: Pass, 1♠, 1NT.

This is the format all programmers switched into in order to overcome the 1999/2000 problem. 20070118

No - it is more the opposite way. You are allowed to pass with 0-7HcP, 3+cards. Please remember even it is a passive system it is still limit openings. This means you try to stop unless you see perspectives. This is the reason why 1♦-1♥ can be a 3carder. You have something similar in polish pass systems - Regres and Suspensor. 1♦♥♠-1NT=6-7HcP, Signoff

Thank you very much. I was suspicius about Mega Sound Recorder and from the provided web-site it looks like this suspicion have something. I downloaded that - and immediately Windows Defender interfered. On the other hand I have this application installed on my other computer - there this adware NewDotNet is not detected. This looks strange as it looks like my computer is not affected - but I suspected something might come in the future or maybe my computer was abused in a botnet. I will now un-install Mega Sound Recorder from this computer. I have now changed my settings so that AVG will be running before Windows Defender is started. I wondered why Windows Defender detects NewDotNet in scheduled running but unable to detect if I start Windows Defender manually. Suspicion against Mega Sound Recorder is strengthened. It was not properly deleted running the feature for that.

1-2 years ago I still had my childish innocense. Today I cannot afford so. I feel safe using Ebay features - all other mails are suspicius to me and reported to spam filters un-opened.