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Hi! Just to introduce myself: I am not bad for a woman (*joke*), play in the highest group in my local club and was recently more often on an upper rank in bigger tournaments as I was on a low... :) I am allowed to work as TD - I like to play (and work) with men (hairstyling, fashion, diet, hormons and other men are rarely a theme; they focus on 1 thing at the time: when playing bridge then they play bridge), though I also have some female partners who I like very much and who do so as well. When I speak of "he" I also mean "she" ;) - He should be patient and nice, take me as I am, I need no further education (I hope). Since I play in a partnership I want to be treated as a partner: we share tops and zeros, no matter who made them. - He should be intelligent (no problems so far :P ), he should have a big sense of humour, I love to laugh. There should exist a life besides bridge: when there is a break I like to talk about other things than bridge. - Age plays no role. - I love to play with stronger partners (who not?), I like to learn from their experience. I am willing to adopt their favourite system. - I do not like to play in club tournaments anymore , I rarely play teammatches there. - I state myself to be a true person, so the different partnerships are longterm-partnerships (I am very lucky that they accept me as well as partner), I feel uncomfortable changing partners like my shirt and to be insecure about system and signals and so on. - rudeness, unkindness - uninvited teaching at the table - overruling (just like bidding always NT to play himself) - arrogant behaviour to me and opps - stupid analysis after every 2. hand - very bad bridge skill (except when playing with a friend) - lay down the law - unethical behaviour or cheating - disgusting oddities (permanently finger in the nose, sneezing into the cards or such things. They happened!!) Good looking and smell :P Seriously: perhaps kibbing someone and finding out that we are on the same wavelength in personality and understanding of bridge. And I cannot deny that I would be proud to accept to play with a star, although I would be very, very excited and make of course many stupid mistakes... Interested? Chiffre 129745680375694763 :D Caren

A trump. Roland told the reasons :) Caren

There was a damage because 2♦ was not alerted (with alert opener would dbl for penalty). The bidding would proceed in another way. Next point is the ruling: TD was called after the bid of 3♥ when opp clarified partner's 2♦ overcall (too late!), TD should allow a changing in bidding at that stage and the whole story may have been ending in another way. The further bidding now, after 3♥, is $%/(§$"§$$% ;) ... But I think the score should be adjusted. Caren

Brandal, I can tell you from experience that there exists a better way to signal THAT: do it already during bidding and pass i.e. a gameforcing 3♣. That saves some energy and makes clear very early that bridge is not what you have in mind right now :) Caren

I did several things at the same time and rushed through the posting... :) ok: since count makes no sense here, the first discard would be suit preference: 9 and 7 -> highest ranking suit, 9-4-2 highest with more interest also in the 2. highest suit and so on..... Poor p must find 6 discards :huh: Caren

In my area it is standard among the best players to signal without discussion in this way: a.) trump contract: 1. discard in a suit that has not been touched before = attitude (direct), the majority uses UDCA, standard carding must be discussed :) 2. discard in the same suit = length, 3. discard in the same suit = Lavinthal. b.) NT: 1. Lavinthal 2. length Caren

I would really appreciate this. With my regular BBO-partner I play a strong club system and it takes much time to type explanations to clarify an opening bid or a relay, many bids with "either-or" meanings. I have no idea whether it is possible or how difficult it is to create a "personal right click popup list" for chosing a description of a bid. :) Caren

I like the idea of a 3m-opening bid in 4th seat with such hands. Recently I had the same problem in the league. Since the stack was in ♣s I decided to open a precision 2♣ which became the final contract. 3NT played by p was cold. Gambling 3NT is mainly a preemptive bid, in 4th seat it makes no sense tmho. Caren

The interesting original holdings if the J makes the 1. trick were: Kx_______10xx K10______xxx Kxx______10x K10x_____xx Kxxx_____10 K10xx____x You always catch the 10. If the J loses, the original holdings were: x________K10xx 10_______Kxxx xx_______K10x 10x______Kxx 10xx_____Kx xxx______K10 10xxx____K (only in this case running the 9 is as good as playing the A in trick 1). By cashing the A next time (2. round in this suit) you deal with every 3-2 distribution and all 4-1 distributions without the stiff K. Running the 9 in trick 1 is not a safety play to my opinion, loses much more often than playing to the J.

Happy birthday, Tigrotto di Mompracem :D So fast runs a year.... :) Caren

What about this way: 1. ♠Q K 2 4 2. ♠A 3 ♣6 ♠6 3. ♠9 5 ♦4 ♠7 4. ♦5 Q K 2 5. ♥A 6 2 K 6. ♥3 J 4 ♠8 7. if a ♦ comes back: win in dummy and play ♣K, exit with a ♥, if a ♥ is played declarer scores the 9. Even if W waits and takes the 3. ♥trick and plays a trump declarer loses only 2 tricks, a ♥ and a ♦. Caren

Rude behaviour is really like an epidemice since some weeks... I did not yet send abuse-mails, because I don't like to create extra work for others who spend already their time for a community. A further thought of mine was, that if we had an "abuse-button", it may be used excessive... ? But personal blacklisting takes some time to work like a filter, and those people annoy also others :rolleyes: Perhaps we need another small box with a symbol like a lemon or so in the player's profile for repeatedly rude behaviour? :ph34r: Broadcast ->"And the lemon goes to: blabla!" (sorry, heard too much about the OSCAR today...)

I also had this problem several times (but not always!!) since using the 4.xx beta version (windows xp home edition, sygate firewall and avg antivirus) :) As far as I can remember I also used the "movie", but cannot say if it was related to the flag-disappearing. Yesterday I had to restart my pc since log off and log in again did not help. I played about 2 hours and also chatted a lot :P Does anybody else use the sygate firewall? When playing at BBO sometimes a message pops up which says that a blabla.exe was blocked (I am in my office right now and forgot the name, I am really no pc expert, but it was something like ntkrnl.exe or so). I cannot change anything with that (look above...), perhaps that causes some trouble????? Caren

Hi free! in b.) the immediate 2♠ bidding shows 8-10pts with 5+♠s. We are oldfashioned precision players... :rolleyes:

Hi! a.) You are far ahead in a league-team match and find yourself in a 4♥-contract with ♦J lead: [hv=d=s&v=n&n=saxh10xxdakqxxcxxx&s=sxxxhak7xxdxxcakx]133|200|Scoring: IMP the x are cards smaller than the 9. Sys=precision, bidding went 1♥ p 4♥ ppp[/hv] How does the expert play this easy hand? b.) [hv=d=n&v=n&s=saq107xxxhjxdaxcqx]133|100|Scoring: IMP Sys=standard simple-precision. P opens with 2♣ (5+♣s + 4°Maj or 6+♣s, 11-15pts.) pass A:2♦(=forcing) pass 2♥ [/hv] Do you bid 4♠ (or immediately after 2♣)? Say you bid 2♠ because your feeeeeling tells you that there is something rotten in Denmark, your LHO doubles :rolleyes: , your dear partner bids 3♣. And now?

In Germany you must use the STOP card when you make a skip bid (not when playing with screens because it is not obvious who of the 2 players was responsable for taking time or not). I know many persons who always thought that this card is used to "wake up partner", and not to give next opponent time to think IF he has to think about his next action or stop the bidding for 10 seconds if he has not. A potential unallowed information ( i.e. LHO of the skip-bidder passes very fast -> he has no problem, he has a clearcut pass; or he hesitates and passes -> his partner may find a bid which he would not if there would have been an immediate pass) cannot flaw. In online bridge it is not clear what caused a delay: perhaps the player thought or chatted or left the room for a moment or had telephone or whatever, you cannot see him, while an immediate pass may give an information. So I like the idea of an autodelay, though I also would find it hard to wait when the bidding goes 1NT-pass-3NT :rolleyes: Caren

It was a first-round-NT-bid that caused this discussion: I always took (and take :rolleyes: ) NT bids in first round as a SUGGESTION "to play" because in "common sense" bridge, using systems like SAYC (used as basic BBO system if no other system is agreed), better minor, the German Forum D, etc. the range for the bid is small and therefore limited. It means for me: "p, if you only have what you promised with your opening bid, let us play 1/2/3NT, I have either the necessary strength and/or tricks for the level of my NT-bid". I also answered sometimes "to play" when I was asked and was not aware that this could be understood as doubtful or rude behaviour. I am not obliged to give an exact picture of my hand, opps must only know as much as my partner knows. I also feel angry when strong opps ask what an unalerted NT-bid means, I feel that I shall go into a trap and help them with their perhaps not clearcut decision. And here is a possible exchange of unallowed information (it also appears in hesitation before the next bid of a not red-spotted opp). So: if a bid is not alerted, it should be taken as a natural common sense bid; when it turns out that it was not, call TD. And, please, don't make people "small" with "Perhaps they forgot to alert"! I am no native English speaker, I hope, my tone was ok... Caren

Hi, I run windows XP homeedition and updated to version 3.9.6. I played a tourney, chatted, kibized, logged in and off, invisible or not, and I had NO problems, everything was very fine :P Caren

Hi! My immediate association with the abbreviation for worldclass as used in some postings is the place where you (better) are alone... Perhaps in a way this rating is for some ok...? Sorry when I lowered the standard niveau here :) I wish all a nice x-mas time! Caren

Paulhar, I thougt exactly as you did :rolleyes: I bid 2♠ after some seconds of thinking, and p said 3♠ which I passed: -1, trumps did not behave friendly.

Hi all! Always these problems.... Club tourney, MP, all red. System: better minor with 15-17NT (not 2/1). This is a first-time partnership, partner's level is advanced(-), yours :P ;) Partner opens 1♦ and you hold: ♠Axxx ♥Jxx ♦A ♣J98xx I found my hand too weak for 2♣ and chose 1♠. Further bidding: 1♦ pass 1♠ 2♥ dbl* pass ? *you think it is support-dbl, but you did not discuss it before. Which action would you take?? Tia, Caren Opener's hand: ♠KQJ ♥K9x ♦KQ109xx ♣Q

Happy birthday, Ben! May Bridgidda always be at your side :D Caren

Thx for the answers :blink:

Hi all! I was looking for an existing thread but did not find one... Here is my problem: LHO opens Polish 1♣, your partner passes and RHO bids a negative artificial 1♦. What do your following bids show? 1♣(A) pass 1♦(A) ?: 1. double 2. 1NT 3. 2♣ 4. 2♦? 5. What would you bid after the above mentioned sequence with ♠Qx ♥xx ♦AKJxx ♣AK10x ? Do you choose another bid without the ♠Q? 6. In 2. position we pass with 5+ ♣s and bid them later, 2♣ shows a 2-suiter, x is for t/o (=short in ♣) or strong, any other bid common sense. Do you agree? Have a nice day :)

Just a few thoughts of mine in no special order: 1. What I learned is that I should change my self-rating as it suits for occasion (I do not like that!) 2. The rating "advanced" may be correct in my area and not in a "strong" region. 3. To my opinion stronger players will leave if the stuff is already well-known. 4. I always look through pink glasses: people do not cheat in any case and people do not discourage beginners with rude remarks or fast responses or whatever. So I would as an "advanced" in an announced B/I-event be silent and always in the background. Why should a beginner feel her/himself uncomfortable when asking or making mistakes? She/he is there for learning. Maybe it is the big watching crowd which makes the difference and not the advanced/expert among them? 5. It is true that I can read books or articles about any system, but it is a nice idea following lessons about our favourite system with my dear friend sitting for example in Italy and me in Germany, and maybe have private discussions about it later. As you know precison is not precision overall... Does it do any harm? 6. As I taught absolute beginners over years I am really interested how other teachers do. Should I state myself beginner for being able to watch? 7. It is really great that people offer such lessons and I always wonder that problems occur even when all sides wish to please/help each other. No idea why it is so, a far field as Effi Briest's father always said. I love (nearly) you all B)