Lovera

I take the opportunity you started posting, asking if you can reply to my message in your mail, thank you (and apologize by Lovera for the unusual way).

The kind of situation indicated in Hand Four happens here when the strong side is not vul or white vs red but it is possible also when you are white vs white(= love all).

No, just a while:rhm should be, not in indicated page, but in the australian site (you can click on at the top page in green "return to front page", then "Bidding Forum" and at bottom of page is in 50th position-scores 2017). Instead, for Hall, i didn't insert the url (but if you want, ok) and you can look for it via Google search box(=Deva Bridge Club:when in "Competition" then "Championship Team").

Yes, but for this also rhm is on. And i have found that Peter Hall has played at Deva Bridge Club were is possible also to watch any his hands and (good) resultings with Danny Miller partner.

It seems that are few informations around. I have found, about the need to double, this one (the Hand Four in Readers' Bidding Forum): http://australianbridge.com/biddingforumcomments_0606.htm

Infact. If the choising card appear in a side you have to make impasse on the other side similarly when honors are divided (52% vs 48%).

If the situation is fifty-fifty (lacking information about) and you need finesse, can be applied the "Paul Lucacks" gadget as i indicated here: http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/66018-count-vs-restricted-choice/page__view__findpost__p__790905

For instance in this way - copy URL - it is possible to have instantly recorded a group of hands and related travellers (avoiding all manouvres in "export hand"): http://bridgebase.com/myhands/hands.php?username=lovera&start_time=1503871200&end_time=1504476000

After a long researching i've found in "English Bridge February 1997" this one:"Competitive Bidding at Pairs by Peter Hall (Published by South Bucks BC, £7.99) THIS book by accomplished teacher Peter Hall is the result of a series of workshops given by him at the South Bucks Bridge Centre and is intended primarily for the many bridge players who enjoy club or even tournament bridge but find the intri-cacies of Match Point play daunting or even incomprehensible. Really good teachers hold an important position in the bridge world. They see, day in and day out, the type of concepts that learners have difficulty with and then they have to devise ways through these barriers if they are to progress their students to a satisfac-tory level. Mr. Hall attempts to breach the barriers that many of us have about Match Pointed pairs and with minor quibbles, I think that he does it rather well. The book starts simply enough by describing what at Match Point actually Is and how they earned, giving examples of score sheets and frequency charts. He then gets down to the nitty gritty or tactics, show-ing how they differ from the tactics in teams and rubber bridge. He attempts to show that pairs bridge is more a matter of trying to visualise the overall picture and its probable gains and losses rather than just bidding the cards that you see in front of you. As Mr. Hall points out, when one sets out to learn bridge one is given tables of points which are required to open the bidding, to respond, to overcall etc, and for many players these become a bible from which they never deviate. Indeed, as a rubber bridge player of too many years experience I can confirm this hypothesis by remembering many otherwise very good players who would only open if they had the prerequisite thirteen points, only overcall if they had at least thirteen points, and raise my overcalls as if I had opened the bidding. This book attempts to take the average player to a different and more thinking level. How the pairs session is going and its effect on how we should bid are dis-cussed and the idea of a 'match point chip' is mooted. A match point chip is the value of your hand as you pick it up and its value fluctuates according to position at the table and what goes on around you. It gives those who deal only in points the chance to think and better evaluate their hands. An example is this: ♠QJ107642 ♥52♦AJ♣95 You are first in hand at love all 1) Do you open 3♠? Well I must admit that most of us would but opposite an unlimited partner it would not be wrong to pass. The value of your chip, should you open 3♠ is twenty match points. If you do indeed pass and partner opens lNT what do you do now? As 4♠will make about 50% of the time you could try it or bid 3♠which will be raised to game very rarely (opposite a passed hand), or bid 2♠ which will always make. To extend this further, what would you do if you decide to pass and the opposition open 4♥? 4♠perhaps? On each occasion the value of your chip alters. To know how and by how much, you will have to read the book, and I suggest that you do. The author also covers difficult themes such as when to compete at differing vul-nerabilities, includes an easy-to-under-stand guide to the Law of Total Tricks, looks at pressure bidding, bidding with a fit, Match Point doubling-and quite a lot more. At 182 quite closely typed pages, it covers much ground and covers it very well. I would recommend this book to the club player but only if you really want to improve; it is not the sort of book that you can just dip into. My quibble? Well, the author covers a theme called positive fits and gives a 'simple' mathematical formula for work-ing them out. I failed maths at school and, yes I admit it, I had problems with the formulae, but the principle was easy to understand. Perhaps I am just stupid but there must have been a better way to pre-sent this particular idea. Despite its some-times portentous language, I would say that there is nothing better for the club and slightly above average player on the market-Norman Selway"

But there is using "Overall top poster". Infact you can find Lovera on page 9 and changing filter around ten position (excluding anyone no more active) for profile views.

The fact that has been written this book on the subject, plus with examples, suggests that there is already something studied or organized that is unlocked from a theoretical discourse to a more practical, thus allowing you to use this "tool" more effectively.Therefore, it is necessary to verify the data so provided.

The board 10 is unlucky because with Italy vs China, anew at 10 board, happened to have a wrong situation (there clearly "impossible" with five cards on the line for 4♣-1).

Ah, but i was on the other table and only subsequently viewed how Sadek played the hand. I din't know it and that there was the eventualty to have a wrong indication on Vugraph.

Just now by the chat box for informations : http://youth.worldbridge.org/wbtc-lyon-2017-august-19th/

You can get also so: let's go on app, Vugraph then "Calendar .." clicking WTC in blue (Saturday). In the page opened "Results" then at the bottom RR 21 and you can see ranks at that moment (actually it's starting KO from the eight top teams).

I wonder myself for that and i thought it was possible to correct, but anyhow thanks.

The unlicky board is #10. I'm following World Bridge Team Championship in Lyon to see Italy performance (that is actually 7th at 165,79 VP). At the beginning (RR2) Italy vs Egypt in this board Garozzo played 6♥X-1 whilest Sadek stopped in 4♥. On opening lead in trump (3-1) claimed "13 tricks". This caused me to email to Bridge d'Italia Online commenting WBTC (4) because i did not see and asking how to proceed when it was wrong. Lately i've seen on official site that is indicated 4♥ for 11 tricks and 13 IMP (instead of 14 in Vugraph). Another situation is on Italy vs China (RR15) again on board 10 (1♥-4♥ is right the bidding) but the indication is wrong (4♣-1).

The latest JDonn lectures : http://webutil.bridg...tch.php?id=4139 (En passant : i've email you on 27 July, may you respond me ? Thanks.) When you are in, in the middle of page before "Comments", let you choise "Click here" for previous lectures.(Lovera)

Just because in "Play anonymuos" i'm having good resulting (almost 1.25+ average for hand) but i have not record in my hands (i once asked for it) that i want to play against 3 GIB when - more often of actually - is possible to play free. I hope this can be realized.

I think this should not be neglected (also to be considered as a much more quiet game incentive than at the table where there is often no time to do something more correct).

Is it possible to have GIB free non only on the first day of a month ? For example is possible it on the next week and so for special days (i.e. on December or on Easter holidays) ?(Lovera)

I return to the topic of Peter Hall's book because it seems odd to me that this book has no trace if, as it seems, has rightly focused some "rules" to get IMPs. I myself have been able to see this as having gained a lot of good results while playing with occasional partners. I think, therefore, that many agree with me in having as much information as possible (the ideal would be to have the book's PDF) that the book could provide (= full hands visualization and examples) also to be complementary to other books such as that one of Robson-Segal. I therefore hope that we can continue in this dialogue.

For instance i'll go on my searching.

Yet Melbourne is not a bad idea.

Thanks for websites' informations. Anyhow the book i was looking for is also listed on the BWBC library.