Jump to content

pilowsky

Advanced Members
  • Posts

    3,422
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    47

Everything posted by pilowsky

  1. Je pense que vous devez ouvrir un onglet séparé et y faire la traduction dans google translate. Ensuite, copiez et collez le texte dans le chat. Les résultats peuvent être assez variables. Alors on me dit !
  2. I meant, specifically, the challenges vs robot - where you can specify 'not best hand'. Good practice (for me anyway).
  3. Excellent idea. Can it be included in the challenge area?
  4. pilowsky

    RIP

    Angela Lansbury - "All talent and no looks".
  5. What Mary Trump thinks about pardoning Donald.
  6. [hv=https://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?lin=st||pn|pilowsky,~Mwest,~Mnorth,~Meast|md|1SQ2HAQJ93DA975C52,SAT54H72DJ43CKJT9,SJ8763HKDKT862CA8,SK9HT8654DQCQ7643|sv|e|rh||ah|Board%203|mb|1H|an|Major%20suit%20opening%20--%205+%20!H;%2011-21%20HCP;%2012-22%20total%20points|mb|P|mb|1S|an|One%20over%20one%20--%204+%20!S;%206+%20total%20points|mb|P|mb|1N|an|2-3%20!C;%202-3%20!D;%205%20!H;%202-3%20!S;%2012-14%20HCP|mb|P|mb|2C!|an|New%20minor%20forcing%20--%204+%20!S;%2011+%20total%20points|mb|P|mb|2D|an|No%20fit%20--%202-3%20!C;%202-3%20!D;%205%20!H;%202%20!S;%2012-14%20HCP|mb|P|mb|2N|an|2-%20!H;%204-5%20!S;%2011-12%20HCP|mb|P|mb|P|mb|P|pc|CJ|pc|CA|pc|C4|pc|C2|pc|HK|pc|H4|pc|H3|pc|H7|pc|D2|pc|DQ|pc|DA|pc|D3|pc|HA|pc|H2|pc|C8|pc|H8|pc|HQ|pc|S5|pc|S3|pc|H5|pc|HJ|pc|C9|pc|S6|pc|H6|pc|D9|pc|DJ|pc|DK|pc|C6|pc|D6|pc|C7|pc|D7|pc|D4|pc|D5|pc|S4|pc|DT|pc|C3|pc|D8|pc|CQ|pc|C5|pc|ST|pc|S7|pc|S9|pc|SQ|pc|SA|pc|CK|pc|S8|pc|HT|pc|S2|pc|CT|pc|SJ|pc|SK|pc|H9|]400|300| This came up in the last Weekend Event (no. 2). So does that mean it's only NMF in this position when it's 2♣ and not 2♦?[/hv]
  7. Sometimes experiments fail. Sometimes the result you expected to get doesn't appear. There can be lots of reasons. But after hundreds of years surely the rational approach is to try to change the experiment, to try something new. Otherwise, if you keep banging your head against a brick wall your ears will start to bleed.
  8. Maybe it's the unusual Michaels.
  9. How does this approach fit in the universe of NT overcalls? (Martel & Mahmoud; 2013) NOTE 14: DEFENSE VS NT DBL = Penalty 2♣ = ♠ + ♥. Advancer's 2♦ asks for longer M (♥ with equal length) 2♦ = Natural + a major (2N asks major and range) 2M = Natural (3♣ response is a strong raise) 3M = WK NV, STR VUL
  10. Let's not forget that H. Clinton actually won the election. By millions of votes. The already rigged electoral system in the USA is now suffering from 'white panic' as demonstrated by the resurgence of 'replacement theory'. If the goal posts keep shifting and getting closer together so that only true MAGAhats can win, then Trump (or some other Stalin look-alike) will be elected. Then New York will become a Gulag and it'll be off to the re-education camps or a one way trip out of the window of a tall building for the non-believers.
  11. So, do you think a goat can be a cheat in one field but then turn around and tell all the cows that the other field was all about grass so it doesn't matter? Of course, when it comes to real food in a restaurant he always tucks in his napkin and eats with a knife and fork, so they should just go away because the eating speaks for itself.
  12. The correct way to prepare and eat Surströmming.
  13. Well in the spirit of the Liberian experiment, perhaps the "irreplaceables" could combine their wealth and purchase a parcel of land in Patagonia. Jonestown redux. And why not? Self-determination for every one of them.
  14. Or just get rid of the Senate and introduce compulsory preferential voting.
  15. The US navy has just put Gerald Ford out to water. A nearby explosion (registering 3.9 on the Richter scale) left the slow-moving ponderous vessel unfazed.
  16. I hear a lot of complaining about Journalists saving bits for books - Woodward in particular. But, if they were to immediately publish every random word that spilled from Trump's mouth as soon as he uttered it nobody would believe it and Trump would deny it the next day. In no particular order: pussy-gate. putin-gate. bleach-gate. topsecretrecordsgate. Trumps casual mendacity is breathtaking, mind-numbing and boring all in one. And not forgetting "If you're a bit rough when you throw him out I'll pay your legal bills" - I'm still trying to imagine what a person who really believes Trump would actually pay a legal (or any other) bill looks like. I can't imagine a revelation that any journalist might lead with that would be more shocking than the stuff already on the public record. The mills of God grind slow, but exceeding fine. The US Justice system on the other hand grinds so fine that so long as the target is wealthy enough they'll probably be dead before they have to pay the piper.
  17. What have we learned from history?
  18. [hv=pc=n&s=skt32h97dajt9cqj6&d=s&v=e&b=3&a=p1cp1hd2h4d4h]133|200[/hv] What would you do here as South and what kind of hand would you expect from North? North is a robot but the same question applies if it was not a bot. IMPs, 2/1, EW vul.
  19. I have the same problem. The easiest way to force BBO to 'understand' is to move them to ignore for a few seconds and then return them to neutral. I have no idea why it 'sticks'.
  20. pilowsky

    RIP

    Hilary Mantel - of a stroke.
  21. Just had a challenge table close multiple times with: ________________________ An error has occurred. Table closing. GIB Ask Failed: ERROR: GIB Error: rc: 1055 ________________________ What was GIB being asked? Why did it fail? Is it this? Did someone lock the database and go home with the keys? ERROR_SERVICE_DATABASE_LOCKED 1055 (0x41F) The service database is locked.
  22. So, suppose one or more of the three Mr Trump's +- Mrs Kushner have to go to prison. Does that mean they get a Secret Service detail in the cells with them?
×
×
  • Create New...