Pavell

Go to: https://www.bridgebase.com/tools/hvdoc.html it will clarify how to use the Hand Writer properly !!

- The black & white book on Amazon, Barnes & Noble & bookstores cost $20, the black & white book .epub version on XLibris.com (the Publisher) & Google (for tablets, telephones) cost 10, the color eBook on http://bull-bridge.com cost $13.5 (tax included) and goes with free .epub version. - The bundle of the color e-Book & the Sysnotes computer program for playing Fp on Internet cost $44, and it can be found on Shopify store on Facebook even for 20% OFF through January 8, 2018 (you can find any of them by looking for "Slam after Slam with Force Point") - By the way, the system is a combination of natural & relay bids and is not banned (and can not be banned) on any Tournament. For most of the Opponents it may be difficult for understanding, just because it is a new system, but they always can ask & ans will receive complete explanations.

I'm tired about the explanations about the snake oil and anti0adging cream. Mama Mia ?! Who said you have to buy a license? The license is ONLY for experienced Force Point Teams which wants to try the system on INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENTS !!! And YES, I'm paying the players who entered Fp Team in BBO, starting with 6 month delay, if the showed results. I already have spent over $25,000 for such purposes. Fp stands for Force Point, not for Forcing Pass, which is forbidden. The 2016' Fp Evaluation Counting is already published here, how it is will be in the book, along with the complete system, check it before you buy the book with the whole system. No one is aware of that system, it is completely new: the Counting, the thinking, SCOR -SCOR Convention, The Asking for the exact number of the partner's contract tricks and the CPA (Control Points Asking) using new discovers about bridge game, which will allow you to discover simultaneously by number and by kind all of partner's TOP Honors (A + K + Q) with 1 question 1 answer only. The calculations are for 7 grader. The book will cost $16 ($12 on Holidays and all December), the Sysnotes cost $40 ($32 on Holidays and all December), the License for using Fp on International Tournament cost $10. You can bay all of them separate. After the 3rd re-submission of the book, it will be in the market between 15 and 30 October 2016. Amazon, barnes & Nobel & the publishing company site: http;//Xlibris.com (then go to the bookstore) You can find inside over 120 games, 2/3 of them with explicit explanations how to use Fp, for 1/3 of them you will see the bids only, and if you have read the book, you probably will explain then. If not, and you have difficulties, email the # of the game to pboev777@gmail.com, and you will receive the full explanations. Between 300-350 pages, 50 of the the System, the rest with games with full explanations. And I will tell to you and the others only one thing: The Precision ,with all of its modernization is a laughing system compared to Force Point, 40 years ago, YES, it was the best, but now here is Fp with his 7 grader calculations, which unfortunately will kill all of the paid Bidding lessens around the world, but that's the life, it always is like that, sorry Experts. Snake oil and anti-aging cream for your a.., sorry, for you. You probably are from Bulgarian origin, right, I know them very well, because I have leaved there til 45, that is their usual thinking and speaking. That's what they learned after the communists killed all of the Bulgarian Intellectuals 1944-1947. You know nothing, including anything about Force Point! Let's comment again after May 2017, when the world will know everything about Fp, ok ? It is absolutely new. Give it some time snake.

Mama Mia ?! Who said you have to buy a license? The license is ONLY for experienced Force Point Teams which wants to try the system on INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENTS !!! And YES, I'm paying the players who entered Fp Team in BBO, starting with 6 month delay, if the showed results. I already have spent over $25,000 for such purposes. Fp stands for Force Point, not for Forcing Pass, which is forbidden. The 2016' Fp Evaluation Counting is already published here, how it is will be in the book, along with the complete system, check it before you buy the book with the whole system. No one is aware of that system, it is completely new: the Counting, the thinking, SCOR -SCOR Convention, The Asking for the exact number of the partner's contract tricks and the CPA (Control Points Asking) using new discovers about bridge game, which will allow you to discover simultaneously by number and by kind all of partner's TOP Honors (A + K + Q) with 1 question 1 answer only. The calculations are for 7 grader. The book will cost $16 ($12 on Holidays and all December), the Sysnotes cost $40 ($32 on Holidays and all December), the License for using Fp on International Tournament cost $10. You can bay all of them separate. After the 3rd re-submission of the book, it will be in the market between 15 and 30 October 2016. Amazon, barnes & Nobel & the publishing company site: http;//Xlibris.com (then go to the bookstore) You can find inside over 120 games, 2/3 of them with explicit explanations how to use Fp, for 1/3 of them you will see the bids only, and if you have read the book, you probably will explain then. If not, and you have difficulties, email the # of the game to pboev777@gmail.com, and you will receive the full explanations. Between 300-350 pages, 50 of the the System, the rest with games with full explanations.

http://bull-bridge.com is the current site, http://bullbridge.com is 15 years old site I rarely correct.

Fp doesn't need any arguments, 1st read the book, then argue. There are some new discovers about bridge game which will allow you to discover simultaneously by number and by kind all of partner's TOP Honors (A + K + Q) with 1 question 1 answer only. The calculations are for 7 grader. The book will cost $16 ($12 on Holidays and all December), the Sysnotes cost $40 ($32 on Holidays and all December), the License for using Fp on International Tournament cost $10. You can bay all of them separate. After the 3rd re-submission of the book, it will be in the market between 15 and 30 October 2016. You can find inside over 120 games, 2/3 of them with explicit explanations how to use Fp, for 1/3 of them you will see the bids only, and if you have read the book, you probably will explain then. If not, and you have difficulties, email the # of the game to pboev777@gmail.com, and you will receive the full explanations. Between 300-350 pages, 50 of the the System, the rest with games with full explanations.

Fp stands for Force Point, not for Forcing Pass :) There are some new discovers about bridge game which will allow you to discover simultaneously by number and by kind all of partner's TOP Honors (A + K + Q) with 1 question 1 answer only. The calculations are for 7 grader. The book will cost $16 ($12 on Holidays and all December), the Sysnotes cost $40 ($32 on Holidays and all December), the License for using Fp on International Tournament cost $10. You can bay all of them separate. After the 3rd re-submission of the book, it will be in the market between 15 and 30 October 2016. You can find inside over 120 games, 2/3 of them with explicit explanations how to use Fp, for 1/3 of them you will see the bids only, and if you have read the book, you probably will explain then. If not, and you have difficulties, email the # of the game to pboev777@gmail.com, and you will receive the full explanations. Between 300-350 pages, 50 of the the System, the rest with games with full explanations.

First read the book, then decide. The book will cost $16 ($12 on Holidays and all December), the Sysnotes cost $40 ($32 on Holidays and all December), the License for using Fp on International Tournament cost $10. You can bay all of them separate Pavell

There are some new discovers about bridge game which will allow you to discover simultaneously by number and by kind all of partner's TOP Honors (A + K + Q) with 1 question 1 answer only. The calculations are for 7 grader. Who said $44 for the book? The book will cost $16 ($12 on Holidays and all December), the Sysnotes cost $40 ($32 on Holidays and all December), the License for using Fp on International Tournament cost $10. You can bay all of them separate. After the 3rd re-submission of the book, it will be in the market between 15 and 30 October 2016. You can find inside over 120 games. About the arguments: wait till New Year, and you will hear about about Fp, then post your opinion again. Pavell

Who said $44 for the book? The book will cost $16 ($12 on Holidays and all December), the Sysnotes cost $40 ($32 on Holidays and all December), the License for using Fp on International Tournament cost $10. You can bay all of them separate Pavell

2016 Fp Hand Evaluation Counting Singleton Ace = 2 contract tricks Ace = 1.5 King = 1 Queen = 0.5 Void = 1.25 (for computer or Quest use) ~ 1 (for casual players use). NOTE: The Quest is the player who asks his partner to reveal the Exact Distribution, Contract Tricks and Top Honors holdings) Any Singleton (except the Ace) = 0.75 (for computer or Quest use) ~ 0.5 (for casual players) Doubleton = 0.25 (force*point, Fp*, for computer or Quest use) ~ 0 (for casual players use) 6 card suit = 0.25 (force*point, Fp*, for computer or Quest use) ~ 0 (for casual player use) Bi-color 5/5 = 0.25 (force*point, Fp*, for computer or Quest use) ~ 0 (for casual players use) 7+ card mono-color = 0.5 * (n - 6), where 'n' is the number of the cards in the long suit Bi-color 6+/5+ = 0.5 * (n – 10), where 'n' is the sum of the cards in both bi-color suit NOTE: Each player initially remove 2 tricks to find his own Contract tricks (the tricks which are over the first 6 tricks which are not counted in the game of bridge) The e-Book 'Slam after Slam with Force Point' with full explanation of the system will be on the market after 10/25/2016, http://bull-bridge.com (in color, $13.05, tax included), along with the book and the eBook (black & white)on the bookstore of Xlibris.com (the Publishing Company), Amazon and Barnes & Nobel stores

This is a percentage for bridge Tournaments, not the usual percentage which you know from school. Did you know that 40% at bridge Table mean last place, Zero , and 87% mean 1st place? Obviously, you never went to a bridge Tournament, at least do not post stupid opinions! 40% at bridge Table are equal to 5 usual % , and 87% at the bridge Table are equal to 99 usual % One thing is true: I made a mistake posting 85%, the real percentage is 83%

The book 'SLAM after SLAM with Force Point' (black & white) will cost $16, expect it September 2016 (after re-submission for printing on end of August The Sysnotes computer program for Internet Force Point playing in a weeek of preparation (free explanations in BBO by Pavell & Boeff) cost around $38 On week of Holidays and all month of December, both of them are selling 20% OFF. Sysnotes & eBook (both in color) can be found on: http://bull-bridge.com The license for using Fp on Intrnational Tournaments cost $10, but I do not excpect soon some pair or Team to by it. It is mostly for my information if some serious Players learned Fp very well & decided to try it internationally, so I to be able to provide a support for them. The bundle of 3 can be obtained for less than $55 on sell, but you can buy them separate. Pavell Fp Bidding Developer

No matter how experienced are you, just you have to clear your mind of those inaccurate HCP (except when you expect to play NT contract) and spend 3 months to practice Fp. Your status from Beginner to Expert won't count, except for the Playing part of bridge game, I can not help you there, and this is your own responsibility! If you are an Expert about the Playing, in 3 months you will be called Exceptional Slam Expert, the other will be called Exceptional Slam Bidders only. Fp counts directly in Contract Tricks. Just use the B#s (the contract tricks) instead of HCP (exception for NT contracts only) :) Fp system was submitted for publication on May 27 2016. The book 'Slam after Slam with Force Point' probably will hit the market in less than a month. I expect, the additional explanations in BBO to become daily routine for all who are interested. GOD help me, but I'll do what I have promised! By using the separate computer program Sysnotes (Fp system Notes) will be much easier for all of you to learn and start playing Fp in 1 week on the Internet, but all of you who can afford to spend $44 for the licence must attend frequently in BBO for the planed explanation. ♣ ♦ ♥ ♠ We will start with the easiest Openings to make your learning of Fp more comfortable. You must understand that you do not need to remember the Bidding sequences. Instead you have to remember the Bidding Mechanism that goes with any Opening. That is much easier than memorizing tens of sequences. The main things you must memorize are the ranges of the Opening bids (elementary) and SCOR-SCOR (including Extended SCOR) Convention. It is new and some players find it difficult on 1st sight, but the Convention will show to you the exact partner’s distribution of any shapes which is the important thing. Along with the CPA you will be able to project the partner’s cards through the back of them! That’s like a Double Dummy Bidding with your partner. You will like it, so learn SCOR-SCOR (15 to 30 hours, depends on you imagination capabilities). The Openings from 1♣ to 4NT are 20, but that doesn’t mean you will need to remember 20 Bidding Mechanisms. So, you will need to learn 10 Bidding Mechanisms corresponding to the different Opening bids, 1 Convention (SCOR-SCOR) and 3 Askings (for the exact partner’s B#, CPA for the partner’s Control and for the colors of the partner’s TOP Honors). Any one can do that for approximately 90 - 120 hours, respectively for 30 days (3 - 4 hours a day) depending on your free time and intentions. 1. 1♣ → B(2.5)+ (12+ HCP), any distribution. The Bidding Mechanisms in 1st/ 2nd sit is a bit difficult, but it include all possible suits’ and not-trump’s distributions. It will be easy for you if you start learning the system from SCOR-SCOR then 1♦, 1♥, 1♠, 1NT, 2NT Openings and then continue with 1♣ Opening in any sit (20 to 25 hours to learn it) 2. 1♣ → B1+ (8+ HCP), any distribution. The Bidding Mechanisms in 3rd / 4th sit is the most effective and not difficult (10 - 15 hours to learn it) 3. 1♦, 1♥, 1♠ → B(2.5 - 4.5) for Minors, B(2.0 - 4.0) for Majors, 5+ card suit. The Bidding Mechanisms are equal and not difficult when you become accustomed with SCOR-SCOR (5 to 10 hours to learn it) 4. 1NT, 2NT → B(2.5- 4.0) & 14-18 HCP, (with 19 HCP open 1♣), respectivelly B5+, balance or 22+ HCP, balance. The Bidding Mechanisms after 1NT and 2NT Openings are equal and easy when you learn the clever tricks for showing your exact shape and strength (up to 3NT after 1NT Opening), 10 to 15 hours to learn it 5. 2♦ → B(2.5)+, no Vulnerable, B3+, Vulnerable. The Bidding Mechanisms after 2♦ is the easier (5 hours to learn it) 6. 2♣, 2♥, 2♠ → B(2.5 - 4.5) for Minor bi-color, B(2.0 - 4.0) for Major bi-colors. The Bidding Mechanisms after these Openings are equal and the easiest (5 hours to learn it) 7. 3♣, 3♦, 3♥, 3♠ → B3+ for any 6+/5+ bi-color. The Bidding Mechanisms after these Openings are equal and easy (5 to 10 hours to learn it) 8. 3NT, 4NT → B(2.5 - 3), 8♣ or 8♦ with 3 TOP Honors respectively B5+, any 9+ cards, 3 TOP Honors, Direct CP askings. The Bidding Mechanisms after 3NT and 4NT Openings are equal and easy but statistically they almost never will happen, just remember that the answers start from 8 CP or less (1 to 2 hours to learn it) 9. 4♣, 4♦ → B4+, AKQJxxx(x). No difference after these Openings, but they are not too easy. Statistically they almost never will happen, just remember that the answers start from 16 Control Points (CP), 10 hours to learn it 10. 4♥, 4♠ → B(3.5 - 4.5), 8 card suit. No difference after these Openings and they are elementary, you seldom will use SCOR (5 hours to learn it) 11. SCOR-SCOR Convention including its Extended SCOR part. The learning depends of your imagination capability and is rated from fair to difficult (15 to 30 hours to learn it 12. Asking for the exact B# → elementary (1 hour to learn it) 13. Control Points Asking (CPA) → revolutionary, but a simple arithmetic for a 7 grader (1 year to discover it, but no more than 5 hours to learn it) 14. The asking for the suits of your TOP Honors is elementary and uses 3 steps by SCOR for showing ‘2 of a kind’ + one 4th step showing 1 TOP Honor (instead of 2) + 2 or more Jacks in a balanced hand or 3-4 Jacks in an unbalanced hand (1 hour to learn it)! You will need around 100 hours (no more than 160 hours if you are a slow learner), approximately 60 or maybe only 30 days (respectively 2 to 4 hours a day) to learn Fp good enough theoretically, and you will need 60 days to employ it practically. In 3 to 4 months you will be ready for the Bermuda Bowl, no kidding ! NOTE: If SCOR-SCOR is difficult for you (needs 20 – 30 hours to learn it), discard discovering the partner’s exact distribution (shape), use your own bidding and relay only on Fp Counting to find the game’s Play Level. Statistically, you still will have better results than using the HCP (there are garbage, except for NT contracts)

A short observation of Force Point SCOR-SCOR Convention ♣ ♦ ♥ ♠ SCOR-SCOR Convention Force Point ( Fp ® ) system uses only one Convention SCOR-SCOR for discovering the exact partner’s shape, Control Points (CP)along with the Queens, and their suits. The Basic suit is expected to be any 5+ card suit in which you opened or overcalled. When your Basic suit is already shown you may start answering by SCOR-SCOR showing your side suits, then your 2nd longest suit which will reveal your exact shape. In the cases when you have 2 more cards in length than previously expected (7 cards instead of 5 cards Basic suit) you must use NT bid before you show your 2nd longest suit. Usually you will use the 1st part of SCOR - SCOR Convention when it is exactly 5 card suit, but when you have a 6 card Basic suit and want to show that your previously shown Basic suit has 1 more card in length than expected, you will use the 2nd part of the SCOR - SCOR Convention. The abbreviations for SCOR-SCOR Convention are: “S” stands for the SHAPE ('rounded, surrounding the Basic suit, every other suits') side suits which surround your Basic suit. “CO” stands for your COLOR (red or black) side suits always excluding the color of your Basic suit. “R” stands for the RANK (Majors or Minors) side suits always excluding the rank of your Basic suit. NOTE: The abbreviations are equal for both part of the Convention, but if your partner thinks you have odd number (5, 7) card suit, using the 2nd part of it will show to him that you have even number (6, 8) card suit. The side suits can be (by priority): 0 by 0, 1 by 1, 2 by 2, 3 by 3, 4 by 4 or 2 by 3, 2 by 4, 3 by 4. The important thing to remember is: between them never can be only 1 Singleton, except when you have 8 card Basic suit (1 by 4) or 9 card Basic suit (1 by 3) The convention is universal, the 2nd part of the Convention uses the same meanings, but it shows that your Basic suit’s length has 1 more card in length than was previously expected. When your partner knows that you opened (overcalled) with a 5+ card suit and later you use the 2nd part of SCOR – SCOR Convention, your partner will discover that you actually have 6 cards in your Basic suit. The same when your partner knows that you opened (overcalled) with a 6+ card suit and later you use the 2nd part of SCOR – SCOR Convention, your partner will discover that you actually have 7 cards in your Basic suit. In general, when you have odd number card suit (5, 7) you show your 5+ card Basic suit, then you show your side suits by 1st part of SCOR - SCOR, then if you have 5 card suit you will show directly your 2nd longest suit naturally, revealing your exact shape, BUT if you have a 7 card suit, you will bid NT to show that you have the next odd number of cards in your suit, thus postponing the answer for the 2nd longest suit, and on the next Relay you will show your 2nd longest suit naturally. In the latest version of SCOR – SCOR Convention, to save Bidding space, Fp uses NT bid to show 7 card suit + Void, then on a new Relay show the 2nd longest suit, and by using 7th and upper steps show directly the exact shapes of the 7 card suit + Singleton(s) With 6 card suit you show your 5+ card Basic suit, then you show your side suits by 2nd part of scor-SCOR, thus informing your partner that you have 6 or 8 card suit, then you will show your 2nd longest suit naturally, revealing your exact shape, BUT if your side suits are RANK, you must immediately bid your 2nd longest suit by jump, despite that you will bid over the 6th step of SCOR-SCOR Convention! In this case, from 6th step and up, you will enter the Extended SCOR. You will read about it below, but for now just REMEMBER, that Extended SCOR is used only with 6 or 8 card Basic suit along with RANK side suits and the 6th step is always used to show 6 or 8 card Basic suit with RANK side suits and Void !!! SCOR-SCOR is an innovative Convention allowing you to reveal your exact shape usually up to 3NT (if no opponents’ interferences). When you are The QUEST (Interrogator, asking your partner) the important thing is to pay attention where is your partner's 2nd longest suit: - Is it one of the previously shown side suits or is it not ? Remember that when the 2nd longest suit is one of the previously shown side suits, the 4th not shown till that time suit is ALWAYS a Singleton, but when the 2nd longest suit is not one of the previously shown side suits, your partner doesn’t have a Singleton, nor Void ! Usually it is a 4 card suit (if your Basic suit is 5 or 7 card suit), or it is a 3 card suit (if your Basic suit is 6 or 7 card suit). The meaning of the Extended SCOR-SCOR Convention When you have a Basic suit with 6 card length along with RANK side suits, your answer for the 2nd longest suit will enter the zone of the Extended SCOR. Remember, that happens ONLY with those 2 conditions (a 6 card Basic suit and RANK side suits). In such cases, you will show your 2nd longest suit immediately by natural JUMPING in the suit. By bidding your 2nd longest suit immediately on the 1st Relay, thus saving the need of using the 2nd Relay for that, you will save a very valuable bidding space. Just remember in any cases with a 6 card Basic suit when you have also RANK side suits to bid directly your 2nd longest suit by jumping naturally when asked for your side suits, because every step from 6th and above shows that your side suits are always RANK. The Extended SCOR-SCOR starts with the 6th step answer and all of the next steps will show the same RANK side suits, so you simply MUST bid your 2nd longest suit naturally by JUMP despite which step you will use over the first 5 steps by s-co-r s-co-RRRRR…. The jump answers consists max 12 steps. Whenever you have made a natural suit overcall, the rules are the same for using Extended SCOR if you have 6 card Basic suit along with RANK side suits. NOTE: The 1♣ Opening will be difficult for you to start, so we will start with the easier explanations and by the end when you become accustomed with the basic system’s principles, we will explain the 1♣ Opening. You can find the bids using by Fp by running the separate Sysnotes.exe program upon downloading and installing it. You can use the program to play bridge by Fp Rules when playing on Internet even if you know nothing about Fp system. See the instructions by the end of the book. Copyright 1993 - 2017 by Bidding Expert. All rights reserved ®

I will advertise the day when the book 'Slam after Slam with Force Point' hit the market and Amazon internet site in BBO, but anyway that will be in less than a month. Be the 1st, read it with your partner, then call me in BBO for explanations, if any. After that, create a Team and focus on the goal Bermuda Bowl :)

It is mandatory a material like this to be copyrighted and that was made by the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington DC. The first national Team who decide to go dipper with Fp will win the next Bermuda Bowl easy :) No big deal, $44 for a personal license. I have to return at least the spending for the publishing ($7,000). Fp system was submitted for publication on May 27, 2016. The book 'Slam after Slam with Force Point' probably will hit the market in less than a month.

Because you are still suspicious, not about Fp (anyway you do not have any idea about it), but to the opinions of the BBO Forum Players, I personally will explain to you any difficult on firs sight Fp conceptions and Bidding Mechanisms ones you read the book. Then we will talk here again :)

The usual system are not cappable of discovering small slam in CL, not to speak for a grand one in minor. Only a relay system which discovers the exact partner's shape, the exact play level, and the exact number of partner's A+K, sometimes and Q, can do that with easy. Any attempt to explain how to reach slams in minors with casual systems will be stupid because the slam will be reach simply at very high risk. Two pairs of STARS played a game on 1/16/11, one reached 6NT, the other 6CL. If you fiil embarasing with your result, I do not know what they would say. I'm not sure if you will be interesting to show how easy is to reach slam with a relay system, because you probably never will play it, but if you think it will be interesting, tell me, I will post the bidding here.

- What do you mean by "pump it up" ? By how many points? Could you manage the millions of the SuperFit hands with one simple Rule? I have spent 9 years to find the answer, and I'm not sure where I will be if ZAR decide to include the ForcePoint Counting in his table comparisions. Most of the players do exactly what you adviced: they 'pump it up" when they sense a SuperFit. You know the Human nature: one lucky winning will make them to forget the rest of the 99. But that is not a Lotto where one lucky game pays off by the Jackpot. Do you have some numbers to offer like ZAR did ?

Hey ZAR, - First of all, thank you for the great job you did by presenting to the bridge world one of the most easy and explicit Hand Evaluation Counting. I'm sure that all players who read it and do not hate the simple arithmetic will relay on it for a brief checking despite the Bidding system they use. - One advice: Your explicit Hand Evaluation Counting was clauded recently by the split in 3 separate versions. Which one to be used for final? That's not for the public. If you expect the players to check all of them separately, I think you are wrong. Most of them even do not want to exchange their own far worse Hand Evaluation, simply because they put some time in it, and will continue to believe in it for years to come, or because they are still winning with it against weak players. For the other brighter inovative players you must present One Only version of ZAR which combines all of the best to the possible boundary. - Of course, it is simply my opinion, maybe because I had 17 versions of my own Hand Evaluation, but every time I posted only the last, discarding the old ones, until I reached the best. Any way, do the things simple, if you want more players to relay on your Counting. For me it is EXEPTIONAL, and if you decide some day to compare it with ForcePoint's Counting, that day will be a "look around" for me.

"A New Approach to Bidding" by Jon Drabble. His method of hand evaluation is surprisingly accurate. it is slightly less aggressive than Zar points, but not much! One of the differences is that Zar points explicitly add points for controls (2 for an Ace, 1 for a King) whereas Drabble's CV compares the controls actually held with the expected number (CV/3) and upgrades or downgrades the hand accordingly CV is explained briefly at http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~fitzpatr/cv.html Midmac is quite a nice bidding system, but I think the minor openings are rather too open to pre-emption Eric - Your link is not working !

- Obviously all of those players need ZAR to evaluate their Hand Evaluation technics. With it, they will not need years of experience to reach the best Contracts. - I'm more interesting what the experienced players (or ZAR) will do if we exchange the Queen of Spade with the Queen of Diamond in the 2nd of the presented hands. I do not have a problem with that, and you ?

"A New Approach to Bidding" by Jon Drabble. His method of hand evaluation is surprisingly accurate. it is slightly less aggressive than Zar points, but not much! One of the differences is that Zar points explicitly add points for controls (2 for an Ace, 1 for a King) whereas Drabble's CV compares the controls actually held with the expected number (CV/3) and upgrades or downgrades the hand accordingly CV is explained briefly at http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~fitzpatr/cv.html Midmac is quite a nice bidding system, but I think the minor openings are rather too open to pre-emption Eric - Your link is not working!

- If you use C-SAYC ( http://bullbridge.com/generic47.html ), the answer is very easy, because you NEVER will need to make blind hand evaluations. By C-SAYC Rules partner will open 1 in Major with 5+ card suit and b1 to b4 (Base #1 to Base #4). South has 29 pts (go to the site to find out how to count your pts and your B#) which is a Responder's b3 (Base of 3) and at least a Super Trump Fit of 10 cards, which give to him the right to upgrade his B# to b4. The sum of both partner's B# will give to him the minimum of Play Level of 5 (PL = 5). - So the Bidding will be: 1♠ 2♥ 4♣ which is ALWAYS Control Points Asking (CPA), prompting North to show his Controls by the ForcePoint's CPA Rule (A = 6 CP, K = 4 CP, Singleton = Void = 2 Control Points). In this case South even do not need to know the exact B# of your Partner. The Control Points will supply to him the right Play Level. The 1st step answer of 4♦ (or Pass if West bid) will show 8 or less CP, the 2nd step answer of 4♥ (or X if West bid) will show 10 CP, the 3rd step answer of 4♠ (or the bid over West's bid) will show 12 CP, the 4th step answer will show 14 CP, the 5th step = 16 CP and so on by 2 CP more for any of the next steps. South has 18 CP. With 32 to 36 CP combined he will go for a Small Slam, with 38+ CP he will go for the Grand Slam. So, if North shows 12 CP or less, South will try to play 4♠ or 5♠, but if North shows 14 to 18 CP, South will bid 6♠. Of course, if North shows 20+ CP the game is a Grand Slam! Using this method you won't need to visualize your partner's hand and NEVER will miss a Slam. To check this, put what hand you want for North (of course, a minimum opening hand with 5+ cards in ♠) suit), and answer for North's CP (Control Points). The Splinter bid suggested by the author is too limited for supplying the proper information. I hope the author will publish the real North's hand, so all of us will check our suggestion. If I'm right, do not forget to read the short explanation for C-SAYC on http://bullbridge.com/generic47.html , it will help you to resolve all your Bidding problems complitely :) . Success.