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I have scoured the internet and have found NOTHING that discusses the question of the value or what to do when playing RKCB when no suit has been agreed and the bidding goes along the lines of 2C / 2D / 2NT ??? I have read here, above, various suggestions on what a pair might choose to agree to do in those circumstances but I can't believe that this system, so widely used does not have definitive answers for the 'no suit agred' route. The problem (in my experience) with standard blackwood (with no agreed suit) is that once 4NT is bid there is no exit route and 6NT is inevitable. Gerber (again in my experience) is simple and effective to get there or get out or better still Gerber and Blackwood (4C follwoed by 4NT) but 99% of players on BBO do not play Gerber and WILL NOT play Gerber . . . is that some kind of snobery i.e. better players don't play Gerber or is there any sound reasons why Gerber is a poor tool?

Reading the responses to my post seems to confirm one of the points I put forward and that RKCB is only of any value when a suit is agreed . . . . apart from having no value in NT slam contract I would like to know (if anyone could point me to a piece of reading) what the RKCB bidders bid when there in no suit agreed; as the RKCB response bids all indicate K and Q key cards in an agrred suit what is bid when a suit has not been agreed?

With my Club partner we play Gerber if Clubs have not been bid and standard Blackwood if Clubs have been bid. Gerber is good for keeping it low if we need to get out and Blackwood is what it is. I've been playing Bridge for 40 years and I have come across many players belive that the greater the number and more complex the conventions on their car is a testiment to their ability. All that said, I play on-line and most other play RKCB and I am happy to learn it if I can find some reading that will convince me it will add value to find 12 trick slams.

Where can I find some free on-line reading that will convince me that RKCB is of value for the average or even better than average Club player? Why do I ask . . . I feel like I should have it on my card but I REALLY can't see it being of any value other than the 1 in 10,000 occasions when I think there is a Grand Slam on in a suit. I can't see it of any value when the I'm looking at a NT slam, in fact I can't see how it works when a suit has not been agreed and we're in NT's. All that said . . . point me to a write-up somewhere that will convince me I should have it?

Thanks . . . I took it as a hand with opening points 0, 1 or max of 2 small clubs and the other suits.

Your partner Doubles his RHO's (Declarer) opening bid of (a pre-emptive 3 clubs. What would expect to see in your partner's hand?

About 9pm (UK time) last night BBO crashed on me and several others . . . was it just a select few, the Club I was playing in or the whole BBO world?

A Club with an average of 6 tables once a week would cost about £600 a year . . . is that correct?

Thanks . . . . I did previously find and read those documents but they are not explicitly clear. I think it's saying that the Club pays £27 a year and every member of the Club pays about 50p each time they play. If that is correct, with an average of 6 tables it would be about £600 a year . . . is that correct?

When I returned to the UK in 2006/7 I joined m local Bridge Club and a few months later, at the AGM, there was a proposal to stop paying the EBU affiliation fee (the proposer said that the EBU had increased affiliation fess to £++ and proposed we drop out and proposalit was carried. 15+ years later I am now on the Committee and a new member asked if we were ‘Affiliated’? This caused me to look at what I costs and trawling through the EBU web site the answer is not clear. . . . . . . What does it cost?

LAW 40 - PARTNERSHIP UNDERSTANDINGS A. Players’ Systemic Agreements 1. (a) Partnership understandings as to the methods adopted by a partnership may be reached explicitly in discussion or implicitly through mutual experience or awareness of the players. (b) Each partnership has a duty to make its partnership understandings available to its opponents. The Regulating Authority specifies the manner in which this is done. 2. Information conveyed to partner through such understandings must arise from the calls, plays and conditions of the current deal. Each player is entitled to take into account the legal auction and, subject to any exclusions in these laws, the cards he has seen. He is entitled to use information specified elsewhere in these laws to be authorized. (See Law 73C.) The Regulating Authority specifies the manner in which this is done. . . . . . What does the EBU specify be done?

I have the EBU's summary of what muct be 'Announced' 'Alerted' taking aside all those specific calls specified in that doc that must be 'announced / aleterd my question is this . . . . . When a pair do not have a Systems Card on the table do the rules require that they 'Announce' their system before play or is it a matter for the opposition to ask?

It was the autofill - solved - thanks

Just to add to the clues on what / why this is happening. . . . it doesn't show when I use a different computer, it is just on one laptop running Windows 11. I've cleared all cookies etc, any ideas on what else I can do?

When I put the cursor on the Text/Chat bar a serious of randomly saved texts rise up (3 X Hi, 2 x Last hand for me etc.) These are things I typed in there over the past week or so and some (randomly) saved. How do I stop this happening and deleted them?