evanrmurph

It seems like the responder could still use a step bid to show strength. It would no longer serve to transfer but only to conserve bidding space. Is this what you had in mind?

That's quite clever. It's tempting, though I'd be worried that neither opponents nor tournament directors would take kindly to it, and that ACBL will eventually get around to plugging that loophole in the convention chart language. Any idea how responses will work in your Open Chart Moscito without transfer openings? Btw, I just read in another thread that you helped Paul Marston develop Moscito. So it's great getting the chance to talk about this with you!

Would this 1D be opened with at least Average Strength? I think it would have to by Disallowed Opening Bids #2, not making the grade for a natural 1D by Definitions #2-g. I applaud your Open Chart Moscito efforts. It seems clear that Open Chart doesn't allow Moscito 2005 out of the box, so it'd be great to have a workable variation that doesn't deviate too far.

barmar, good idea to contact the tourney hosts. And thanks for clarifying about the individual tourneys! hrothgar, thanks for mentioning Open Chart! I had missed that ACBL was revising their convention parts and going into effect in November. Link to the new charts in case anyone else missed that: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sOIU9fNAVlFftvRGuj7I5apPZsibzCL0Dsd6KVg7sjk/edit#heading=h.yxnvppfo0dpb

I see some of the tournaments on BBO are hosted by the ACBL and mention they're governed by the GCC. But there are also tournaments hosted by many others where the rules are less clear to me looking. What are the general rules of play for these other tournaments on BBO? Are they also GCC or generally less restrictive like only no HUMs? I'm interested in playing with a weak opening bidding system like MOSCITO, but it seems GCC doesn't allow this. So I'm wondering if there will be opportunities to play online with such a system. I'm mostly interested in the Pairs tournaments on BBO, because my understanding of the individual tournaments is that you always partner with one of the robots who only play 2/1.