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The doubleton support is shown generally via the forcing NT. Why fool around in ♠ with a weak hand and a known 8-card fit in ♥?

That is standard in 2/1 imo. 1♥ 1♠ 1NT 2♥ shows a hand, which is stronger than 1♥-2♥

Many thanks for the hints. Al

Exactly that was my intention, why I posted this in the Beginners and Intermediate board. If you never discussed thsi with your partner, noboboy knows what the partner thinks..... In the reality of our match North doubled and the final contract was 2♦ in a 2-4-fit. And this was a regular pdship of self-called experts. :P

Hi Uday, hi Fred, I found another bug with in the GIB's FD-CC playing bridge for money: My GIB-partner opened 1 NT, RHO bid 2♣ (I guess it was alerted as Cappaletti). I wanted to play 2♥ and looked at the tooltips of my possible bids 2♦ and 2♥ by clicking the 2 and mousing over the suit-symbol. Both said something like "to play". So I bid confidently 2♥. My partner answered 2♠ (alerted as "Xfer done"). In a highly competitive bidding my Gib bid up to 5♠. Luckily the other Gib bid 6♦. I posted the hand on my blog. Regards Al

[hv=d=e&v=n&s=s93haqt982daq84c6]133|100|Scoring: IMP East South West North 1♣ p 1♥ p 1♠ p 1NT p 2♣ p p ? [/hv] I guess you agree with North's (edited after hanp's note) pass in the first round. If not you must have an exact agreement with your partner about the meaning of: 1NT, X What is the difference in the meaning of X and 1NT? 1♠, 2♣, 2♦, 2♥ But in the balancing situation it must be 100% clear, that 2♥ shows a good 6-carder and some sort of trap-pass after 1♥. This was the full deal: [hv=d=e&v=n&n=s93haqt982daq84c6&w=st5hj754dkjt6ck74&e=skq76hd752caq9832&s=saj842hk63d93cjt5]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv] With the ♦K onside 4♥ is an easy contract to make. Even if the K is offside there is a chance for 10 tricks. But at least a part-score in ♥ should be reached. Do you and your favourite partner have the tools to find the correct contract, if opponents bid your best suit first (by bluff or by chance as here)? Al

Many thanks for the link. But I'm not looking for an description, what the GIBs play, but I'm looking for an FD-CC to upload, if I don't play with a GIB. Regards Al

I'd like to use the system the GIB's play in my regular games. Is there a source to download the GIB's CC anywhere in the web?

Don't forget: 1) Watson: "Play of the hand" 2) Berthe/Lebely "pas a pas" I-IV

Playing 2/1 the 3NT bid is terrible if there is no conventional meaning agreed. With strong hand bid slow. 2♣ promises a 2nd bid, so there is no reason to jump like an kanguruh. 2NT shows 12-14 OR 18-19. If partner raises to 3NT you can show your 18-19 with a quantitative 4NT. Playing SAYC 3NT shows 18-19 I guess. 2♣ shows 10+ HCPs. In this range (with 28-31 combined HCP) 3NT is always better than 4♥. So the 4♥ bid is strongly inviting to slam. It is forcing for 1 round at least asking opener to cue or go RKCB.

Nice idea, but

[hv=d=n&v=n&e=sjhqj865dkj2cj953&s=s10762hak9da1087cq7]266|200|Scoring: IMP N E S W 1♠ p 2N p 4♠ p p p[/hv] 1) Declarer takes your ♥Q lead in dummy, partner contributes the 7. 2) small ♠ from dummy to declarers Q, partner produces the 3. 3) Declarer plays ♣A partner contributes the 2. 4) Declarer leads ♠Q to partners A while you discard a ♥. 5) Partner plays the ♥10 taken in dummy. 6) ♣Q is ruffed in declarers hand. 7) Declarer leads a ♠ to ♠10, partner follows suit while you discard another ♥. 8) Declarer follows suit when he leads ♥9 to your J while partner discards ♣4 Here you may look the play interactive. Now it seems you are endplayed: 1) ♥ is triple void and allows declarer a ruff and discard. 2) ♣ is double void and allows declarer a ruff and discard. 3) ♦ seems the best hoping that partner holds the Q. What do you play and why? Advanced and experts as usual please answer HIDDEN.

Don't bid your hand 3 times. You cannot force to the 3-level opposite a bust.

The whole discussion shows, that there are alot of different possible and reasonable meanings of the 3NT double. There is no no right or wrong imho. So it is necessary for every partnership to discuss this issue. The same difference is after both defenders bid a different suit then the question is weather the double says: 1) Play my suit or 2) Play your suit. Al

Is it possible that the lead is from Ax2 :blink: and openers hand is xxx, Qxx, Q10xx, AKJ ??

and the bidding goes 2NT pass 3NT and partner doesn't find the spade lead. :) Or do you have X as conventional for spades??

South double of 1♦ is a terrible bid. Why not make a noraml 1♥-overcall? There is no reason to bid at the 3-level, when opponents show combined 24+ HCP with ♠xxxx ♥Qx ♦AQxx ♣AKJ But ......(hidden:)

Hi Fred, hi Uday, there is a strange behaviour of the server concerning "Bridge for money" when the player who creates a table waits long before he accepts my registration: 1) Another player has opned a table and I click his name. 2) The server says: "Waiting for permission" That is ok 3) After some time has gone, server says: TIME out, request denied. 4) Now I go elsewhere in BBO (e.g. kib somewhere) amd suddenly I'm on the table, which I requested before. Once this even happened to me that I logged out from BBO and when I came back the server told me, that there was a game and my account was updated. The problem comes up, when the player, who opened the table needs very long to answer my request to come in. Does others made the same experience? Is there something I'm doing wrong? If not then it would be nice, if you could fix this. Many thanks Al Btw.: I'm using the windows-version of BBO not the flash version.

[hv=d=w&v=n&s=sa8hak732d7ckj864]133|100|Scoring: IMP Facing strong opponents the bidding went up to me: West North East South 4♠ pass pass ???? [/hv] I got this one wrong and lost a lot of IMPs. What is your bid and wh? Or is this just like tossing a coin?

Most discards are NOT a signal. It is up to the players to analyze bidding and play and not to look at partner's DEMAND. 1) You have to discard something. 2) A discard is not a demand in 99% of the cases. It maybe a signal, which shows. But partner has to do the thinking. 3) PLaying Roman discards is more flexible than standard discards.

When I played this hand I thought that this was an example of restricted choice. West could have played ♠Q instead of the ♠K as well and I decided to play on spades to be 3-3. But after the match I felt unsure about that, because the restricted choice argument concerned East with 10 and Q just as West. Hand presented on my blog Here I tried to post the handviewer link in BBF. The source is pasted from my blog. But it doesn't work. What did I wrong?? Hand presented by handviewer Is this an argument for East holding the last spade? From the lead we know, that EAst holds ♦A and at probably 2 of the high ♣ honors. We know he is singleton ♥ too. If he had doubleton ♠, he must held 10 cards in the minors. Why didn't he bid? Are there other arguments for one line of play or another?

After taking ♣A lead play ♠A and try ♣K. If nobody ruffs, play a ♠ to your K and play on the ♣. Now you are in your hand without wasting an entry. You win against every 4-2 spilt in ♠.

There is another point where ia xx is necessary: If opponents make a psychic double of 5♠ to prevent you from bidding the slam. 5♠X+1 scores less than 6♠= but 5♠XX+1 is more than 6♠ LOL

That is an old problem the teaching table ignores the the setting of of dealer in the lin-file tag md|x.....| where x = 1,2,3,4 for S W N E stands. The teching table sets the dealer according to the information in the qx|| tag, where the boardnumber is strored. Fred told me by a mail, that the BBO-Windows version will not updated any more, but that he plans to integrate teaching-tables in the flash version and then he'll consider the suggestions of improving teaching tables.

I had no problem in using the handviewer in a blog You just need a blog which allows to write direct HTML blog For example the above post in the source code: This hand I played in a BBO-team-match. And I misdefended. Click on my nick to show only my hand and dummy's. Right-click the diagram and choose "hide played cards". Click on "next" for every trick to see how the play went. <iframe src="http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?lin=qx|o4|pn|declarer,xx1943,North,East|st||md|2S8QKAH5JQKD27C7JA,S236H367TDJAC356T,S579JH24D346TQC9Q,|rh||ah|Board 4|sv|b|mb|p|mb|p|mb|p|mb|2N|mb|p|mb|3C|mb|p|mb|3S|mb|p|mb|4S|mb|p|mb|p|mb|p|pg||pc|S2|pc|S7|pc|ST|pc|SQ|pg||pc|HJ|pc|H7|pc|H2|pc|HA|pg||pc|S4|pc|SA|pc|S3|pc|S5|pg||pc|HK|pc|H3|pc|H4|pc|H8|pg||pc|HQ|pc|H6|pc|C9|pc|H9|pg||pc|H5|pc|HT|pc|S9|pc|C2|pg||pc|CQ|pc|C4|pc|C7|pc|C6|pg||pc|DT|pc|D5|pc|D2|pc|DJ|pg||pc|S6|pc|SJ|pc|D8|pc|SK|pg||pc|S8|pc|C3|pc|D3|pc|D9|pg||pc|D7|pc|DA|pc|D6|pc|DK|pg||pc|C5|pc|D4|pc|CK|pc|CA|pg||pc|CJ|pc|CT|pc|DQ|pc|C8|pg||" height="400px" width="400px"/&gt>blah</iframe> Do you see where I made the mistake? After winning the diamond J it was mandatory to cash diamond A. THough partners lenght signals in the minors were wrong, I should know that declarer's distribution is 4423 and partner holds both minor Ks.