IMP_Jan

Folks, just to be sure. 'Muiderberg' was invented some 35 years ago by two Dutch players (Onno Janssens and Willem Boegem). By the time I started to play with Onno I called those type of openings, I gave it the name of Muiderberg, a small town near Amsterdam where Onno lived. Mid nineties I wrote a book on the Muiderberg (in Dutch though) merely due to the fact it was getting very popular in The Netherlands (we even won WC's with it). And yes, Muiderberg are much recommended to open on 5 (no 6) M and 4+ m. Jan van Cleeff

Dear All, Looking at the discussion which is developping here, as founding publisher of BridgeTopics.com I feel I should give a little explanation. We started mid September 2010 with BTC. The biz model is typical internetish. We give away lots of free info: i.e. daily bridge news from all over the world. We built a network of international correspondents and are happy to notice that this is widely appreciated. Without being too modest we already are considered as the CNN of the bridge world. We also facilitate The Grand Tour: a network of international bridge festivals and tournaments. Members are event organizers who have their own page with us for free. Our paid content is the Topics Collection of which Eric Rodwell (our anchor man) is the editor. We publish each month a Topic on modern bridge theory. This month f.i. we published Gazzilli à la Lauria. Based on a 12 month subscription of USD 79.0 and due to our partnership program the price of a single Topic is as low as USD. 3.33. We feel that that is a bargain for an in depth and extensive article of top quality. So far our mission and pricing. As to our marketing I admit that in the first month (september/october) we made some technical mistakes. That had merely to do with the fact that we erroneously mixed up a pressrelease and a news letter. From that moment on we were very keen sending our newsletter only to our registered members. Therefore I have the feeling that some critical remarks in this Forum - by the way always appreciated as we learn from it - might still be based on that very first month. And once more be assured we work very hard to communicate in a respectful way to the bridge world. Last words: if you still feel the need to exchange views with me on these things please mail me: jvcleeff@xs4all.nl or call me: +31 70 3605902 . Thanks, Jan van Cleeff