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I think that one of the best strong club approach are using 1♦ as bal X to Y points or 4M unbal. In competitive auction opener can now bid minor to show bid minor and a major (usually the unbid one). 2♣/♦ are 5+ cards 10-15. either both minors or 6+ in opening suit. This gives good chance to find the major suit fit without going too high. Also in competition you are usually better positioned than with others openings. Of course removing the bal hand from 1D opening improves it but it makes some other troubles ... like 1NT 12-15 or something similar

BBO flash works fine with ubuntu gutsy and nonfree-flash (ie adobe flash player 9,0,124,0). Features from bbowin to bboflash: - Mouse over players name to show profile. - Mouse over board number in top left corner showing the list of kibitzer names. Movie browser could be improved also: - Add a button to frame that hides and shows movie areal. This would help people with low resolutions to fast open movie with same size as previus time. - Double clicking a result in browser should show other tables results - When new result is added and movie viewer is at bottom it should scroll to new entry. - Special background color for own entry when watching results from others tables. Bug: - When claiming while the last card to the trick is played claim view doesn't update remaining number of tricks.

1. Passable 18-19 2/3. "fake reverse" to show 4 card support and 18-19. 1m-1M;2om. Same bid can show also strong splinter raises freeing splinters for 15-16 distributional hands. 1m-1M;3M is 14-16 with SGL

1. double and hope for trump lead.west has some 6-5 hand to bid the game. of course depends on partnership agreement about double and 3C 2. auto-pass

switching X-Y;Z-2C;2D-2NT and X-Y;Z-2NT has a small merit that you don't want lead direction doubles when inveting to NT game

double wasn't neagtive but transfer to hearts. Double means pretty much same as without interference 1!H bid. After that 4♦ bid is automatic if not choosing pass.

I lead trump back it is only card that can kill entries possible S+D squeeze. If declarer holds Kxx KQxxx x Axxx. Declarer needs 4 entries to hand for club ruffs and to run hearts for squeeze. CA+KQ trumps and DT ruff. If returning a trump declarer is short one entry back and squeeze is broken. Call TD for slow play, please :)

♣T partner had singleton ace and hand needs ruff and another ace for set. ♥8 can't be from short suit so it is clearly asking for ♣ ruff

2♣ Gazzilli. But if not that then 3♠, THis hand has a lot more in hcp that playing strenght. maybe 3NT is the best spot.

DD solution is simple but how to see that single dummy?

Updated 15.1.09 wine 1.1.12 bbo 5.0.3 You might still need the windows version if you have problems with special characters with flash version. Here is the steps you need to do when running under wine. 1. you need to add fonts symbols.ttf, arial.ttf and verdana.ttf to (wine) c:\windows\fonts\. You can use winetricks for everything else except for symbols.ttf. 2. lin.sh shell script helps to open lin files directly in bbo when you download them. #!/bin/sh cd <full path to bbo, example: /home/me/wine/c/Bridge\ Base\ Online> wine NetBridgeVu.exe $1 & After making that lin.sh file just tell your browser to open lin files with it when browser is asking what to do for lin file. 3. If "Help me find a game" doesn't work you can modify bbover.ini BROWSER_TYPE=M so bbo will use your default browser instead of the internal of wine.

Tad William's Shadowmarch Ian Irven's The view from the mirror Margareth Weiss' Death's gate cycle Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time And of course the classic books - LoTR. All these aren't jsut a book but series of books where story flows :P I love them. There is many other that I like a lot but these are from the top of the list. All of them are magic fantasy with variant degree of magic. The world in Wheel of time and Death's gate cycle are built on magic and great powers unlike in our world. The magic is everyday happening in them that nearly everybody have to know how to use. Shadowmarch has it's own setting where magic is very strong in the shadow world that is blocked from men The view from the mirror has very strong magic but it is very restricted in the world that story begins from but there is hints that in other world magic flows freely and the mirracles are easy to archive. All the books include riddless and many turnings before in the end good wins. Heroes born in middle of story from the small people who happend to make rigth choices. The victory can come with great lose. It is the victory that can be celebrate later.

Someone clearly forget to open and it's definetly not my partner (I could have forget to open but it's different story). I would pass. if changing points to aces there would be reason to try something but now values seems very bad. Opps are having more aces than our side. They have better chance to have the 18 hcp game than we have. Precision and opening with rule 18/19 makes this very easy pass.

over 1♣(1♠) it is possible to be only step+1 if using relays. pass GF relay (1♦ if no interference), dbl negative (1♥ if no interference), 1NT bid is 1♠ after pass: dbl is 1♥ bid 1NT is 1♠ But our negative response system is destroyed there but it is small sacrafice