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You click just above bd number on the left and then other tables. Sound you can kill the annoying play a card sound by going into your account settings and sound is under general. There isn't much to configure but removing that is priority one. You can make chat speak by going to the same place but under chat rather than sound. I find if I review a board and then go back to it I sometimes have an odd bug if I work out exactly how I'll tell them.

Aha what I didn't know but can now see but haven't tested is that the new version will indeed let you export hands now :-) Hurray good stuff. And you can export hands you have watched on vugraph too.

the only bidding misunderstanding I ever noticed from Lauria Versace was a 1♠ 4♥ auction presumably they had changed the meaning recently.

I'm not convinced this auction is insane. Auction is live when he got to bid the first time and the opps are limited when he gets to bid the second. I can try to create hands for this auction if you want.

Of course I have no idea how many of those are biddable using Jacoby. I could run it but would take a while. And I could then run them again having deleted Jacoby from the CC. Hope that was some use in the end.

ok so the rough and ready answer is 46/100 1♥ Jacoby auctions lead to a dbl dummy makeable slam for your side. and 41/100 for spades. Which is still oddly high but the method was not bugged this time I'm pretty sure. Sample sizes were not very big but that probably doesn't matter.

ok I found a bug so I gave up with uncontested and exhaustively checking the auction and I just dealt some hands and am dbl dummy seeing if there is a slam which shd be good enough.

hmm and my numbers for hands that bid slam after Jacoby are just rubbish which explains why it was so high.

and 3.75% of those bid jacoby

4.4 % of hands are being opened 1♥

you might of course use Jacoby more or less than my definitions which are all 12+ HCP with 4 trumps and all 8+ HCP with 14+ total including distributional points. I can see what percentage of hands bid Jacoby when 1♥ is opened.

Jacoby seems to be a tiny fraction of dealt hands is sort of the problem only say 70 hands are 1♥ 2nt out of the 23k.

no that was 0.25 % of hands that are dealt result in 1♥ 2nt i'm just revising my values the spade one above is right I think but it does seem weird

Ok I dealt 23k hands 0.235% went 1spade 2nt. 0.196 % bid small slam which seems a lot that wld mean 84% of hands where Jacoby is used jack bids 6.

[hv=pc=n&s=shaj853daqt8ca742&n=saq653hkq62d532cq]133|200[/hv] Ok try this one second hand I got it to use Jacoby.

hmm having trouble simming it cos its so rare amusingly. :-)

I can sim this if you want. What conditions do you want random hands where Jacoby is used or random hands where Jacoby is used and there is a slam?

I can run another 900 hands if you want but i'm pretty sure the result won't change. and you have to lead something. I only did it dbl dummy because I was pretty sure your statement was wrong. I can run them single dummy and I'm again pretty sure game is good. Admittedly the defense won't be as good as the declarer play.

ok game in 3nt par 31/100 4♠ 30/100 rest part scores opps never had a successful sacrifice vs game. Hearts was better than spades twice. once 4d dbled was par no idea if this beat 3nt or not though.

I can dbl dummy them back in a bit

Reminds me of a comment 30 odd years ago from a student. "The only reason to play strong 2's is so you can psych them with a weak 2".

It is another feature we lost when we lost the superior old BBO. You also can't watch a vugraph session and then download the hands you watched. You might be able to save them online but you can't then do anything with them except look. You can download them once they get to the vugraph archive if you remember.

Even if it is stayman why would you ever show a 4 card heart suit here?

BBO is the best site to learn bridge but GIB is not the best robot to learn bridge with if you choose a robot to learn from. I have no conection with any of the following. Jack is the best robot to learn from. It will play 2/1 and almost any convention associated with it. The only one missing I can think of is 2 way check back. It will play the hands much better than anyone except the very best. Defense and bidding are only ok but better than any other robot. It has a learning feature which will tell you what you did wrong which you might find useful. It is not free but not terribly expensive. Wbridge is free. It is slightly annoying in some of its methods but it will play 2/1 mostly sanely. Its card play is excellent. You can play a free tournament with wbridge against 2 wbridge and compare scores with other players. It is match pointed though which may be useless to you. last time i looked 200+ people played these each day. You seem keen enough that you really ought to try to find a similar human and learn the game with them though.

If your partner passes is 3♣ forcing ?