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Hi Uday, hi Fred, It would be very helpful for teaching purposes, if I could upload my own prepared hands for a training with my students group while creating a team-tourney. At the moment I must create a small Pairs-tourney instead. The flaw of this is the not to control movement. Many thanks, if you could help here. Many thanks for all the benefits you are doing to BBO-users Sincerly Al

Hi Decisions are clearcut: 1) The score stands as it was played. 2) Warning for WEST not to talk as dummy before play is finished 3) Severe warning for N/S for misuse of TD. :o In a bad mood I had subbed the whiner after the 3. post. :) Cheers Al

Hi all playing splinter and wjs (WeakJumpShifts), what is the meaning of the 4♦-bid? partner RHO you ...1♠..... 2♥.. 4♦

4NT is RCKB for hearts for sure. But maybe in MP 5NT is better than 5♥ missing 2 Aces and nothing else. Imo it is totally impossible that NORTH has a long spade suit. Al

4NT = Blackwood RKC 5♣ = 1 or 4 Aces Ty for the hint. I edited my original post. Al

Dealer: South Vul: EW Scoring: IMP ♠ T5 ♥ QJT42 ♦ AQ ♣ Q875 West North East South ---- ----- ---- 1♥ Pass 4NT Pass 5♣ .................4NT=RKCB 5♣= 1 or 4 keys (edited Al) Pass 5♠ Pass ???? Hi all, I thought the 5♠ has a clearcut meaning, but my partner had another opinion. :) No good score for us, when he passed. Al

Hi all, is there anyone, who can give informations about opening 2 ♦ with 44 in myaors and 11-15 HCP? 1) Has the convention a name? 2) Is this convention allowed by ACBL? 3) Do you have experience with this convention? 4) If yes to #3, how do you like it? What are the merits, which are the drawbacks? 5) Do you know a list of the subsequent bidding, after this opening. Many thanks Al

Dealer: North Vul: None Scoring: IMP ♠ AJ72 ♥ KQ9762 ♦ 5 ♣ J4 West North East South - Pass 3♣ ???? Hi all this hand came up in ACBL and my decision proofed to be wrong. I'm interested to hear what is your bid. Here the link to the movie for those, who are interested. Regards Al

100% agree You have a lot of better possibilities to decide if you should open a hand: 1) Playing tricks 2) Suit quality 3) Distribution 4) Rank of your suits A32, A32, A32, 5432 is 3 QT but I would pass in 2. and 4. hand KJ1098, KDJ9, xxx, x is only 1,5 QT but a fine opener every seat. A5432, K432, K32, 10 is 2 QT and I would pass in every seat. Regards Al

Hi all this hand came up in ACBL-tourney today. 2 pairs bid 7NT, 4 6NT, 4 6♦, the other 13 bid 3NT or 5♦. Most of the pairs who bid slam were fumbling in the cloud and gambling. [hv=d=s&v=a&n=s73hatdaq65432caj&w=sjt8654hqj72d8cq3&e=s92hk8654djt9ct64&s=sakqh93dk7ck98752]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv] West North East South - - - 1♣ Pass 1♦ Pass 2♣ 2♠ 3♠ Pass 3NT Pass Pass Pass I don't like our bidding but please give me your opinions to the following questions: 1) Would you open 1NT instead of 1♣? 2) Playing StrongJumpShifts had you bid 2♦ as first response? (this didn't occur to me, since my pd likes to play WJS :blink: ) 3) What is your rebid after 1♦? 4) I'm sure I should bid 4♦ after 3NT, but how to find then the grand? Regards Al

Hi after WESTs discard of of a low spade the odds change dramatically for line 2: small to the A and back to the K, because 4 of the originally 16 possibilities are not possible anymore. I.e. West cannot have: K, J, KJ or void. line 1 is now 75,2% line 2 is now 88,3% A complete other question is psychology. Why does WEST throw a spade? Is he very clever? Is he bluffing or double-bluffing. If I didn't know this guy as a good player I would now play small spade to the A and small to the 8. Regards Al

Hi Double finesse is the correct line. The chance of success is roughly 75% (At least 1 Honour with WEST) and exactly 76%. Singleton J in one of the 2 hands is included in "1 of the honours with WEST" This line loses in 4 of 16 cases, i.e. if EAST has KJxxx, KJxx, KJx or KJ The alternate line play to the A and back to the Q is inferior, because you have to guess if you play the Q or the 8, if EAST plays low on the second round. Each play is only 69,217%. Say you decide to play the Q then you'll lose in 4 of 16 cases too. I. e. KJxxx, KJxx,KJx and Kx with WEST. Comparing the 2 lists of loosing distribution, you'll see the only difference is: first line looses if KJ with EAST = 3,391% second line loses with Kx with WEST = 10,174% (roughly 3 times as much) For exact calculations with missing cards the missing cards calculator is very helpful. Before trying the double finesses I would play a lot of hearts, just to see how the suit is distributed. Percentages change with every card played. Al

Hi Uday ty for helping. Just another question: Is it possible to play with a bot in a tournament? How to do? Which nick for the bot? GIB doesn't work Ty Al

Hi Fred Congrat to the new feature GIB integrated. It works great espiacially, if you like to play very fast. I would like to have more detailed indformations, how the bots play. 1) Which system do the bots play? 2) How do bots signal? 3) Can I change the CC and bots will pay attention? 4) How is the claim procedure? When I tried to, I couldn't claim. Regards Al Sorry, if there is another thread concerning version 4.3.5. I opened this one, because I couldn't answer to both posts announcing 4.3.5. Ben please transfer this post, if there is another thread open.

But normally you play only high low (TRUMP-ECHO), if you want to ruff. If there is no ruffing value, it makes no sense to give decalrer the information of your trump length :angry: Regards Al

Here are the 4 hands: [hv=d=s&v=n&n=sakjt93hj975d6c87&w=s7hqt863dk74ck653&e=sq4hak42d982cj942&s=s8652hdaqjt53caqt]399|300|Scoring: MP[/hv] My partner and I bid: SOUTH WEST. NORTH EAST ...1♦........p.........1♠.......p ...4♠.......p..........p........p we got only 25% :angry: in this hand and don't know why and how to bid this slam Maybe other EW were bidding hearts strongly, then it may be easier. :( Al

[hv=d=s&v=n&s=s8743hdaqj182caqt]133|100|Scoring: MP[/hv] the bidding: SOUTH WEST. NORTH EAST ...1♦........p.........1♠.......p ...3♥.......p.........4♦........p ..???? 3 hearts is splinter showing singleton or void 4 hearts instead of 3 had been splinter with void for sure 4 diamond is a Cue Italien style showing first or second round control, ...no 1. or 2. round club-control AND small slam interest. 1) Do you agree with 3 ♥? 2) what is your bid now??

I've tried this tip but it doesn't work either - no link to www.bridgebase.com :( Hi Denis that was no tip. It was a question to Gerardo, that these links in BBO don't work :( . Al

Thanks Gerardo - I hope you can resolve. As I'm sure you know although these two URLs look very similar, they are quite different in many aspects. I wanted to look at some of the Articles on www.bridgebase.com which are not available on the other URL. There is also the Software and Deal of the Week on the original site which has no equivalent links on the newer site Hi Gerardo and the links in BBO/ EXPLORE-BRIDGE/BBO-ONLINE-TOOLS go to www.bridgebase.com :D Regards Al

Hi Wayne knowing the technique you can find this solution at the table too in a few seconds: You need spades 4/1 or better and hearts 3/1 or better. and claim 14 tricks B) Regards Al

Hi Fred Same result here. Many thanks for your help. The feature is very nice :) Regards Al

Same problem here with WINDOWS 98

Hi all My choice is 2♦. Partner will be aware that my hand is like it is, except 4-card heart suit. I cannot pass partner may have something like. [hv=s=saj10xhxxxdqxcjxxx]133|100|[/hv] Alternative to 2♦ is 1♦ Al

[hv=d=w&v=e&s=s983h1084d1054cj972]133|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv] 2♣ -- 2♠ - 3NT - 6♠ - ---- X --- - - Which suit wants partner from you to lead with double? What is your lead without double?

This is what I thought, when I bid 3♠. I was searching for the best game denomination. Ty Justin. I was a bit confused from some of the above posts.