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Yes thanks. Seen these (although you duplicated the link). Didn't quite cover what I'm after above. I've realised that I might have put this in the wrong forum as it should be 'general bbo' rather than 'bbo support'. Don't know if it's possible to move it. Anyway, if anyone else is able to address my lin queries that would be great. Thanks.

Hi all. I'm trying to bring together all the knowledge of HandViewer, Hand Editor and lin file format that I've managed to accumulate. A few questions have arisen: - Is there a way to use Hand Editor to edit existing files (i.e. imported .lin files?) - Or, similarly, is there a way to bring in something that I've created using the Handviewer URL parameters e.g. ...html?sn=blob,s=sakqjhakqjdakqjc6.... - I find that handviewer links generally contain just the 'lin=' parameter and I don't believe that LIN has a published specification - As it seems others have, I have tried to work out some of LIN myself but I think that some codes were only designed for Flash and won't work for Handiewer links? - Nevertheless, I'd like to know if it's possible to 'move back' some cards and it looks like up||, possibly in combination with pf|| might be able to do that. Anyone know anything about those? Thanks in advance for any insights to any of the above.

Cool. Thanks. I think that I've got it all now.

Thanks. An excellent and informative watch.

That's very interesting and informative. Thanks. The flip side is when is not worth an initial duck and as far as I can ascertain, the scenarios would be: - You only have one Ace to knock out (in which case, no point in giving up a trick unnecessarily - less of a consideration at imps if you can always get to your goal total of nine tricks for 3NT). - You have two Aces to knock out but you know who's got which (admittedly unlikely) - You fear a switch. and the possibility of free trick if you hold the ten and you think that the lead might have been away from QJxxx could sway you towards the duck as well. So on balance, apart from the fear of a switch with a trick already in the pockets of the Defence, it's almost an automatic duck? Does that sound correct? It'd be great to see some hands or an article on this but not getting one with Google.

Any general guidelines on whether / when to duck an opening lead with AKx in dummy and xxx in hand. I'd always thought that you take the first trick and then if a duck is required, you can do that the next time the defence attacks the suit. any reason that that's not correct? But say you have the 10 (i.e. 10xx) in hand? Is it worth ducking in case the lead is from QJxxx? If the lead is the 4 and you can't see the 3. What layout would be most likely? I'd have thought Qxxxx opp Jx. So I'd take the King rather than expect it to run round to my winning ten. Please link to any published guidance on this sort of stuff. Thanks GB