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[hv=d=s&v=n&s=sa2h8753d4cakj975]133|100|Scoring: MP[/hv] South North 1♣ 1♠ 2♣ 2♦ ?? Your are playing SAYC or 2/1. 1♣ pass 1♦ denies 4-card major except you have the strength to bid the major later reverse. If you bid 2♠, do you promise 3 cards in !S? AL

Hi Marlowe ty for this good ideas Sincerly Al

In standard bidding 1♦ 1♠ 3♦ ?? it is often a great problem for me to bid now: 1) are we forced to game? 2) are we forced to game except responder repeats his ♠s 3) shows 3NT by responder ♥ and ♣ stopped 4) shows 3♥ by responder suit or stopper or asks for stopper? 5) 4♦ is a gameforce, true, but is it a slam try So what is your bid with: 1) ♠AQxx♥xx♦Kxx♣Kxxxx 2) ♠AQxx♥Kxx♦Kxxx♣xx 3) ♠AQxx♥xxx♦Kxxx♣xx 4) ♠AQxx♥xxx♦Kxx♣xxx Compare with openers possible holdings 5) ♠Kx♥Axx♦AQJ10xx♣Ax 6) ♠Kx♥AKJ♦AQJ10xx♣xx 7) ♠Kx♥xx♦AQJ10xx♣AKJ Do you have a solution how to bid all this combinations to the rite contract. Imho this exampole is one aof great flaws of standard and a great argument for strong club systems. Looking forward your opinions Al

Q2: 15-17 balanced is a 1NT opening, so 3NT is now an idle bid. Responder is unlimited, so let him show, his hand and don't take his bidding space by bidding like an kanguruh. DONT JUMP WITH STRONG HANDS. What if pd intened to raise spades gameforcing at his 2. turn and you bid 3NT. Now you are at the 4-level and don't know where to play and how high. arghhhhhhhhhhh :unsure: Jumps are to preempt the opponents not the partner.

Hi Fred and Uday, there is a nice possibility to set constrained hands at a pd-ship-bidding-table. I would like to have the same feature at a teaching table in the MAIN or the BIL. So you need not predealt hands for a teaching session with a specific topic; say e.g. "bid and compete after 1NT opening". Another minor question: 5422 are treated as balanced in the constraints. How about calling 4333 4432 and 5332 balanced and 4441 5422 6322 semibalanced? Many thanks for all you do for online Bridge. Regards Al

great idea

Great idea

Hi Fred, 1) Congratulations to this great new exciting MBT. Imho this is the best innovation in online bridge for the last years. 2) Your questions: a) Both ideas are great. B)I like the first more than the second, because human becomes declarer more often and so more challenge and less luck. Many thanks to you and your staff, for providing us players such a great site as BBO. Regards Al

clap clap clap 100% ditto That was the reason, why I posted this one here in the forum. Imho it is result mechandising to find a nice bidding-sequence to 6♥ for this actual hands without saying how to procced when opener has another hand. I'm interested in a bidding, which covers all or at least the most of North's possible hands. Perhaps someone can throw the South hand in an simulator with the North hand constrained to 15-17 HCP and 2434 distribution. What about Stephen's BridgeBrowser, can he find a solution to this problem? Regards Al

You would splinter agreeing hearts with this lousy suit not fearing to find partner with Kx, Axxx, AQx, Axx :)

Imho 100% rite Luis and Peter I'm sure if you put this hand in an tourney about 90% of the players will bid 2♥. Perhaps jdeegan can provide us with the link, where this hand happened so we can look up if I'm rite. Perhaps Stephen (sfbp) likes to run this through his BrBr. Sincerly Al

Hi all I just posted an interesting bidding problem in the SAYC and 2/1 section, that came up in my today's teaching session and we found no satisfying solution. How to bid this one to 6 hearts? Maybe you are interested in the experts opinions. :) Regards Al

[hv=d=n&v=a&n=sk6hkqj8da82cat62&s=saqj97ht754dckq83]133|200|Scoring: ?[/hv] Hi all, this hand came up at a pd-ship-bidding table, when I was teaching and I have no real idea, who to bid 6♥ with standard methods scientificly; without making a shot in the dark. I promissed the Billies to ask here in the forum the experts how they would handle the hand. Here it is: what do you think is the best approach to 6♥, using standard methods. BBO-adv e.g. North opens a standard 1NT First question: Should South treat this hand as 54-major-hand or say: forget these lousy !Hs If the answer is no, you'll not find the ♥ slam be short in 6♣: 1NT balanced 15-17 2♥ Xfer to ♠ 2♠(no 4♠s) 3♣(game-forcing 4-carder) 3♦(Control bid accepting ♣ 3♠ another control 4♥ control 6♣ Second question: If you treat the hand as 54-major do you start with stayman? if yes the bidding would be 1NT - 2♣ - 2♥ - ???? Third question: what now? 3♠ artificial heart raise with these lousy hearts? 4♥ abandoning slam 3♣ showing 4+♣s; major-4carder 3♣ Repeated stayman, asking opener to clarify his distribution yet more 5♥ asking for trump quality Fourth question: If you do not start with stayman, you begin with Xfer to ♠ rite? 1NT 2♥ 2♠ no superaccept and now????????????????? I'm looking forward to see your bidding suggestions, but please don't tell me how superior any strong-club or other artificial system would be on this hand. :) Thanks a lot Sincerly Al

Hi all WEST in this hand should abandon Bridge and play Flipper or ............. :) Partner passed in 1. seat, opponents bid and raised and reraised diamonds. He has no sure trump-trick and perhaps 1-2♥-tricks. Partner must contribute 3 tricks to beat 3♦. The double is the silliest double I've seen in my 40 years bridge career. Sure let the result stand and report to abuse, if he leaves after your decision. Cheers Al Btw. the 2♠ is a terrible bid and what North is doing nobody knows, even playing inverted minors 3♦ is a great underbid. Maybe he knew what bad player WEST is and provoked the X :)

Hi Petko, you are rite. The tourney was MP. I apologize. I put the tourney into Wayne's linconverter nd posted what I got, without checking the way of scoring. My fault. Very sorry. Regards Al

Hi another question: if the South hand is opened 1♠, how should the biding go 1) if WEST bids 2♣ (which is even at IMP a sound bid imho)? 2) if West passes ? Al

Ty all for responding, my pd opened 2♠ indeed, found me with 0 5 6 2, went down 3 against nothing, complained his bad luck and told me what cards he expected from me. :ph34r: [hv=d=e&v=a&n=shat742djt8432cj6&w=skqjhk83d97ca9432&e=sat72hj65dq65ckt7&s=s986543hq9dakcq85]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv] West North East South - - Pass 2♠ Pass Pass Pass :P Cheers :) Al

Hi all [hv=d=e&v=a&s=s986543hq9dakcq85]133|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv] I'm not only interested in your bid, but the reasons why, because I couldn't convince my partner. :D Ty all :P Al

This is the correct solution and something i have done several times. Hi Ben this is was I did with my CBS.bss, which you can find on My Webpage. I run into one problem, when I merged this into the default BBO-advanced. My bss file contains no differentiation of minor-opening bids of you are 1. 2. 3. or 4. seat, but default CC does. After merging there are 3 different definitions for 1♣ first for 1/2 seat second for 3/4. seat and third mine for all seats. MergedFile Which of the definitions will now be posted, when I upload this CC? Many thanks Al

Hi if you installed the newest version of BBO-software and find bidedit.exe in c:\BridgeBaseOnline, open bidedit.exe and then FILE/OPEN/ .... cheers Al

Hi Fred, hi Uday, Many thanks for this admission. I use self-created lin-files for teaching purposes in the BIL. I learned about lin-files by reverse-engeneering and trial and error. I edit the files with WORD. I would appreciate to have a list of the tags. Is it possible to get this list of tags? Many thanks Sincerly Al

Hi all I'm new in the Linux-world, coze I'm so disappointed about Windows. Can anyone tell me, if there is an Linux-version of the BBO-software now? Many thanks Sincerly Al

Hi after you played a hand you'll find the *.lin-file in the BBO-Folder of your PC: i.e. C:\Bridge Base Online\hands\xx1943 you find them also for view or download http://online.bridgebase.com/myhands/index.php BBO-Myhands To Convert a lin-file in a File to post here in Forum are some other CASCADE has written avery nice tool: LIN-Converter There is another lin-converter on R. Pavlicek's site, but this is written in DOS. Have fun Al

[hv=d=n&v=n&n=saqh2dak643cak532&s=sk7532hkq10963d2cj]133|200|Scoring: MP[/hv] Hi all My partner and I had a big misunderstanding when this hand occurred in a regional ftf-tourney. Our bidding with silent opponents was: 2♣ (game-forcing) 2♦ (waiting) 3♦ (suit) 3♥ (suit) 3 NT (to play) 4♠ (suit) 5♣ (?????) 6 NT :) I would like to hear your opinions: 1) Is this a 2♣ opener? 2) What is your opinion about the 3NT bid? 3) Do you like the 4♠ bid? 4) Distribute the blame between North and South Thank you Regards Al

If you are fast, and I mean really fast, you can add your own predealt hands to any team tourney.. .Your window of opportunity exist between the time the event is created and when it starts. As soon as the team event shows up at the bottom of the list of games (in the color indiciating it is about to start.. in 2 min or less), the host can 1) Click the Green table button 2) Choose "load predealt hands" from the option 3) find the file and click on it If you do that fast enough, you can play any hands you like Hi Ben Ty very much for this hint, but you know my age .................................... I fear my fingers are not so fast, but I'll try. Regards Al