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yes that would be even better but I have noticed playing with an ipad in these events you see the meaning of the bids after the fact but I dont think you can check what your bid is before hand even when your partner is a robot

so i assume that since the card that is postd on the bottom of the register page is GIB 2/1 that is what people are supposed to be playing. where things really get grey is what are the bids against 1NT I keep thinking we are playing GIB cappelletti but my partners all play natural luckily so far there have been no 4NT calls to find out that my partners play 0314 and I am playing 1430 I was just thinking since the message that appears in the chat window says all players agree to play 2/1 there could be a an http link to the gib cc

enjoy playing in these, but would like to make a suggestion the people who play in these have no idea what their convention card is even though they can click it on and see what it is. I would think maybe it might be good to do like you do with the robots where you can click to see what a bid is or make an announcement other than you are playing 2/1 you are playing the GIB 2/1 card and can click on the buttons to see what the card is it will eliminate the 1NT 2♣ pass when partner means clubs not a single suited hand or what your bids may mean over interference where you can hover over the buttons to see what your bid should be. games are ok, but they are more than a crap shoot but hey what canyou say they are free

Dealmaster pro works very nicely gives a break down of the hands with singletons voids etc at the end. There has always been this perception that computer generated hands are somehow different than hand dealt hands and what is it there is not a thourough shuffling of the hands that accounts for it.

if anyone promotes GIB it is BBO not Ginsberg....he hasnt done anything with it since 2002...in fact there was an article about Ginsberg this summer in the NY Times....he was working on computer software for Crossword puzzles or scrabble one of those, but GIB is way in the past for him.

I thought the last two articles in Bridge World about Professionalism were interesting on how it has changed over the years. Before Justin was born there were hardly any sponsored teams in the main National Teams events now some of those players from the seventies who aren't that old now would have to maybe pay to get on teams with players they used to play with back then for free.

have been reading Mackinnons book on Bridge Probability using Paschall's triangle for configuring odds it would seem most likely it would correct to play for the drop or an even split in the spade suit. NT bidder starts out with 2-4-3-4 6*35*20*126=529,000 combinations with suits breaking as evenly as possible to start with now start breaking down what other combinations are as we add spade subtract club,or do the same with mior suit cards. possible NT distributions 3-3-3-4 3-2-4-4 3-4-4-2 2-4-4-3 on last two probably could not count since that we mean responder has 6-7 card suit and isn't competing, this would be great if we are just trying to test declarers ability to play spade suit, but mot with that hand knowing they have half the deck would compete. on second would give responder 5 hearts and 5 clubs so most likely that's out also. so on 3-3-3-4 hand 4*35*20*126=352,000 for me the key is the club suit why arent they bidding more? and I do understand that nt opener could have 5 hearts or 5 diamonds, but those distributions would tend to lead me to believe that his partner would bid more clubs

looks like also we should have some sort of black suit squeeze possibility

actually over 5NT see nothing wrong with 7♦ but should get to 7NT if 5NT ask for King then AKQJXXX if good enough for 7 since 5NT should show possession of all 5 keycards plus Q♥

I guess you can always sort your hands under the table if you need to sort them

was looking at it again today the par result is 1430 6♥ EW

I would tend to pass somdays your lucky somedays you aren't, but I would think on most days your gonna beat4♥

I know the people who do this where I am from aren't exactly the type of people you would want teaching

DealMaster Pro works pretty well

yes had this one come up and I couldn't beat it my gib partner led a heart from the north hand it worked out but why it didn't bid 2♥ god only knows

you can buy the commercial version of GIB for $69 US, it allows you pick certain systems and conventions that you want to play and then you can practice that way, you can still load .lin files or .pbn files from BBO

for the last couple of years I have found that playing with GIB or the main club you almost get immediate results for imp tables, but in matchpoints it can take up to 4 hours(or hours) before the hand is played sixteen times.

tens, nines, eights and sevens are the hidden jewels in suit combinations

yes he did some hand but back in the late 70's they followed a set of boards around for all 13 rounds. I do remember his comments now about how players must be exhausted cause of the plays they made or didn't make. he made it sound like a war of attrition. so I stand corrected we have 2 reports in about 25 years in Bridge World on matchpoints for the Blue Ribbon Finals. too bad we don't get more.

saw a listing in Google for Groners Victory Point Scale for 4 bd matches, its bases on 14 VP 0 7-7 1 8-6 2 9-5 3-4 10-4 5-6 11-3 7-9 12-2 10-12 13-1 13+ 14-0

one of the sad things is that matchpoint events never get reported on in Bridge World, maybe its been like 25 years since they followed a set of hands around in the finals of the blue ribbon pair finals. with todays technology, like Stephen Picketts Bridgebrowser software, it would be neat to see all the hands in the finals, all the bids and how the cards were played. See what influences bidding and leads have on the contracts. For a lot of players these events are mystery events, no one really knows what goes on unless you have the time and money to go kib them. We have records for major imp events but not for matchpoints.

Chris luckily your up in Portland, down here in Northern California people go whacko over GOD and GUNS :blink:

for me back in 1991 we played Jim Becker, Howard Chandross, Mike Smolen, and Billy Miller three times in a row in one month and won 2 of the events beating them three times. We just played normal bridge and so did they....a couple of times they didn't take sacs which where their main downfall.

I imagine this has been an age old question the system or the the players? we have had the Blue Club and look at what Granovettor and Rubin(I believe it was Ron, Read new Bridge World) did with their big club system, they killed Bridge World in the 70's...but in reality who plays either of these systems today? the system helps but having certain bids in any system gives you an advantage.....Belladonna, Forquet, Granovettor, Rubin, and Fantunes they will succeed with any system they play even if its old fashioned Charles Goren Style.

from what my interptation of the law 1.our score on the board should have stood since neither of us had played the board 2.the EW pair if they run into the board they already have a score and their opp NS should get AVG plus 3.if NS run into the board then they already have a score and their EW opps will get avg +( which is what will happen to NS since they got the boards a round early) 3.its up to the discretion of the TD if he needs to apply any procedural penalties Procedural penalties are different than adjustments, they are usually at the discretion of the TD...and if I am correct they are final they are not open to committee or review.