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Why not just post a screenshot so the silliness can end. To me it looks fine. [hv=n=s74h432dj87ca9832&e=sa109653hk6dq96c106]266|200|This is what I see[/hv] Now unless East opened 1H with this hand, something is wrong. (I would post the screen shot, if I knew how.) Interesting... do you really see that green table mat with the N,W,E,S written, in the orginal post? I don't (the html I get also does not seem to have any image link). If you are using windows, to get a screen shot, you can use Alt+PrintScreen.

Only in your head, I'm afraid. Try to imagine that there's a square denoting the table or board or whatever in the upper right corner instead of the lower left corner, as you obviously are imagining. :) Sorry Skaeran, my hand diagram shows the spade hand as East (not South) and the North hand holding clubs, at least according to any hand diagram that I have ever seen. (A9832♣ at top of diagram, A109653♠ on right side of diagram, just like hrothgar's does. Now yes, you can reverse it, but for gods sake, why?? Either 1) the forums hand diagrammer transposes it, or 2) it was misentered. I see this frequently as well. Sometimes it changes to what it "should" be on refreshing the page, and sometimes it does not. Looks fine to me. Your hand is the South hand. Dummy is West. If you are the opening leader, the dummy appears on your left. If you are South, the hand diagram shows you at the bottom. Combine the two, and that is what I see.

Sorry for using this thread for asking this question. Is there a way we can download the files for later use etc? (Not necessarily my own hands, which I can find on my hard drive).

This is both inaccurate and offensive. ‘Obvious to all’ is unworkable, who exactly decides when it is obvious? Players reject claims for many reasons, intentionally and unintentionally and to suggest that players who follow the rules do so in an attempt to rattle the opps is offensive. I don't find York's statement offensive, but claiming that almost every rejection of claim has malice behind it is wrong, that I agree and I am a little surprised that you find it offensive. I agree with the rule of the requirement of stating a line of play, but in face to face bridge. Online, some people might have trouble typing etc, so some concession has to be made when no line of play is given when making a valid claim. About obvious claims, you are right that it might not be obvious to all, but you do agree that there are some claims which must be obvious to all (especially if profile says Expert :)), don't you? I have seen two kinds of people: who reject such claims because they don't honestly see it and those who reject it even if they do see it and hope that the opps make a mistake and sometimes, they even come with up tricky ways to induce a mistake. Case in point (true story, btw): Playing in Main Club, I was in a 5C contract with AKJx trumps (in dummy) facing T98xxx in hand. I had lost two tricks and had the rest if trumps came in. When I cashed the Club A, RHO showed out. I then entered my hand (to which LHO followed) in a side suit and then claimed (yeah, i should have stated a line of play and if LHO lawyered up, he would have won I suppose). It was rejected. When i played a trump towards dummy, LHO holding Qx, played the Q very quickly! I almost played the J but luckily I did notice that it was the Q and played the K. When I claimed again, it was accepted. I found this very amusing :) weird.. long post about something that I don't care much about!

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Was introduced to bridge around 6 years back, but I wish I had learnt it earlier. Played my first duplicate around 4 years back.

How is a rating like this possible? DD analyis? This is impractical and would put a huge load on the server. hence hypothetical. :) I missed that, sorry. And yes, quite hypothetical :). Even if it wasn't hypothetical, you don't need to run the rating system on the BBO servers. Just access to the myhands page might be sufficient for someone other than BBO to implement a rating system. I remember, a few years back someone had a page which told you (or anyone else who knew your id) your rating based of your results on BBO. Not sure if it exists anymore.

I was registered to play in a Robot tourney, 11:45PM Vegas time, Jan 12, 2009. Apparently that tourney was destroyed for some reason and I never got pulled in to play. Also, I could not see it in the running/complete to start list. I never got any notification of cancellation etc.

Assuming contract is 5♦, I don't see a way for declarer to make more than 10 tricks. What did you have in mind?

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This might help: you can't delete it, but you can *hide* it: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=179599

I can't register.

Why bid 1NT over partners 1♠? Do you have a good reason? 2♣ seems right to me over pds 1♠ rebid.

In your line you cash the Ace of spades at trick 2 (smartly). If you find out spades are 4-0 you can still take the heart finesse. Give yourself another 5% or so. Your line also worked if spades are not 4-0 and the King of hearts is singleton. You get 2% or so for that. Fred Gitelman Bridge Base Inc. www.bridgebase.com That gets it back to "near 85%" :)

... Actually, there is quite a bit of merit to this idea, matmat's response notwithstanding. I agree. This is probably a good statistical/machine learning problem. It might even be possible to come up with a model which can withstand a few malicious ratings. Maybe helene_t or hrothgar have some ideas about this. But, having a rating system will open a worse can of worms, IMO.

85% seems to be an overestimate by about 10%... but I think this is the line to take too. Endplay possibilties are not too good, a simple heart finesse is probably better than trying to manouver a throw-in, but it can't beat the above line. Sneaky hand :)

Is there really a squeeze? Best defence can break it up it seems.

Just curious, a question to people who play money bridge: Do you consider the skill level of the opp in your bids and plays?

... I exit with anything except a trump (it may telegraph the position). Is there any suit in particular which might work out better?

How do you expect to promote a trump trick by leading trumps through declarer? Won't he do it himself, i.e you don't actually have to lead it yourself?

Well this is B/I problem and when this hand came up on BBO, of all tables with the ♣ lead, only 1 table seemed to have got it right, so perhaps it is not that obvious :) Also, there is (I agree, very minor) a consideration of what to do at trick 4. What would you return after winning the ♠A? (Assuming partner won 2nd trick and played a spade back).

You are East and you hold AT742, 7, 95, AT984. Your LHO deals and preempts 2H and RHO raises to 4 (partner passes). Partner leads the club 3. You see : [hv=d=s&v=b&n=sj3hjt95dakqj63cq&e=sat742h7d95cat984]266|200|Scoring: IMP Partner leads ♣3[/hv] Plan your defense. Adv/+, please refrain from posting too soon.

THe first thing that comes to mind is , though haven't given it further thought, looks like an interesting hand.

Using the windows version I can play (or invite a player for a tournament) with only one login/password by machine at the same time ..... The "flash version" allows to open as many logins/password as you want at the same time..... That means that, with the web version, your "enemy" can open a new login at any time and send many invitations under a "neutral" login ..... B) :blink: :D The tool I wrote might help you there. Here is the link: http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=25507 Make sure you read the later posts on that thread.

Why does partner's pass over 2C deny 6 spades? (Assuming your 2C promises 6). Can't she be a min 6-3-3-1/6-3-2-2 hand?