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another question: i see the completion statistics when people invite me to tourney however, i cannot see their statistic before inviting them, is there a way to do that? thanks

how is the completion rate determined? if i leave a hand while i am dummy, is that an unfinished board? if i leave after all players have left and stopped is that an unfinished board? do i have to make abid to start a board? thanks i like several of the new features

hi, how can i deploy separate chat windows in the web version, so i dont mix conversations with 2 users? thanks

you open 1 spade and partner responds 2 hearts, playing 2 over 1 what is opener`s rebid? I chose 2nt. but what about 3 hearts? scoring was imps, we played 3nt [hv=pc=n&n=skj932h963dat3ckj]133|100[/hv]

Thanks Bill. People can agree or disagree on how to bid, negative free bid or not, sound openings or not. Take this ELC dble for example, i read about it in Marshall Miles`s book, never discussed it, had no idea if partner used it. As to my overcall, or lack of it, I have heard the arguments , I tend to bid what has given me better results more often. I think in a strcitly online environment such as where I play, people mostly play like that because they keep multiple partners, and if the game is never going to move on from bbo then they will not invest any time in it. People have told me they play with rather poor players online because they are their "friends". I think truly if i want to learn more, i have to switch to a situation where I play bridge vicariously, ie, solving bridge problems from books. That takes veyr long (I can play 9 board games in an hour, but not solve 9 bridge problems in an hour). Taking a partnership to firm bidding agreemnets however, will take even longer. But i have been told also that it is no good to study books and have no partner to share it with.

It is the scoring. In imps scoring, NS always get the cards. In mps scoring , EW always get the cards. My partners dont believe me. But they have yet to prove me wrong. I forwarded your mail to Oprah.

When I overcall, I have a list of suit quality I adhere to. Some of my partners, fprmer and current, disagree with it. When I issue a takeout double in direct seat, I have tolerance for all unbid suits. Some of my partners, former and current, disagree with it. I decided a while ago not to say anything about their bidding, they will not listen to me anyway and this teaching/ preaching business is not good, and I will prod along until I have a bad hair day and walk away. But I overcall as I will, and i will answer to the takeout double as if the partner has the right shape or playing strength. On the hand below, AJ9xx for me does not qualify as an overcall, the shape is not right for a takeout double, so i passed, but when the opps bid and raised, I balanced in direct seat. Later the partner complained that I did not overcall. The scoring was matchpoints and 5 diamonds was a good sac. But then, who is supposed to bid the 5 diamonds? Whether I overcalled or balanced, it was still upt to him to bid the 5 diamonds, the overcall and the balanced do not promise any difference in strength. [hv=pc=n&s=sqt4h63dkq832cq84&w=saj87h8742dtcak32&n=sk653hktdaj954c75&e=s92haqj95d76cjt96&d=w&v=0&b=8&a=1cp1hp2h3dp4hppp]399|300[/hv] And speaking of overcalls vs takeout doubles, here the partner had a nice overcall of hearts, but made a takeout double, I did not like the values he had for a takeout double, but at the table I had no way of knowing since we had not agreed to lebensohl, we found a contract in hearts, to a poor score. I remainded silent but hope that the result might teach him not to issue these takeiut doubles anymore. I might be wring, but I read books and I have never seen anyone teaching such an ugly takeout double. the bidding went 3diamonds-dbl-4clubs-p-4 hearts, all pass (I could not fit it into the diagram) [hv=pc=n&s=sq765haqt85dk97c3&w=sakj82hj6d83ckj98&n=st94h9432d2caq542&e=s3hk7daqjt654ct76]399|300[/hv] and I think in a way, that is one reason why one loses at bridge.

Well true, I tend to hide 4 card majors in favour of 1nt the reason being that if partner can go beyond 1nt he can reverse in spades. I open 1 club with 4-4 clubs and diamonds, if the guy has 5 diamonds and 4 spades he can reverse. I did not know, as Mrs. Frances said that 2 club is a continental forcing bid. And to expect him to understand all my 1-on-1 peculiarities, is a bit of rabitussis. SAYC arghh.

Actually, I play modified KS, and a few other st BBO, we actually have a 34 page system notebook. A system does not mean the players are disciplined, I do not partner all from the KS group i am acquainted with mainly for their failure to bid according to the system`s discipline (ie, I do not like the dummies they bequeath me or their cuebids making my declarer play that much more difficult.) The reason it is called Modified KS is because transfers, bergen raises and transfer prempts are included, which were not included in the original KS system. When playing GCC we abandon the transfer prempts leaving only namyats. What seems to have happened is that your opps misbid, but dont blame kaplan sheinwold for it and the director cannot penalise bad bidders lest he be left with less than one table per tourney. Also KS IS NOT AND UNNATURAL SYSTEM. In fact it is not much different from 2 over 1 with a weak nt 12-14.

Well I was in first seat and I had ugly hand: [hv=pc=n&n=sa984hqj7d3caq752]133|100[/hv] I opened 1 club, partner answered 1 diamond, I rebid 1nt. My choice was 1nt or 2clubs, but the game was matchpoints The partner rebids 2 clubs, which I passed. His hand surprised me. It could not be new minor forcing, since it was not a new minor. My hand has no other bid. We also had not agreed on inverted minor raises, but neither the 1 diamond nor the 2 club bid does his hand justice. Below is his hand. ATB. thanks [hv=pc=n&s=s3ha6daqj7ckjt863]133|100[/hv]

Correct I would pass in first seat. Kaplan devalues that queen. In KS you cannot rebid that diamond suit either because 2d shows an unbalanced hand, 5+ diamonds 15+ or 6+ diamonds 12-15 hcp. KS is a sound opening system for minor suits, you open sound, but you respond agressive. The player who you played with does not understand that.

This is true. If you think trolls only show up at the jec table, you are wrong. The other day, in a slow time at bbo, kibbitzers gathered at a table I was playing, I suppose at the suggestion of the software. There was no moderator, the host did not speak english and some idiots decided to criticize my bidding, some in open chat, others in private. I immediately put them on enemy list, the game was fun and partner and I were ahead by 40 imps. a kibbitzer by definition offers unwanted opinion. you can enemy the trolls, you can leave the game and return tomorrow, and if the moderator tells you to piss off, well, piss off. Come back tomorrow, the moderator prolly wont bother you. i dont see why you should bring bbo into this. moderators have to put with a lot of s***, and they have to be on call for several hours a stretch to provide you with entertainement stevil.

good morning folks playing lebensohl, what would be a distinction between the following sequences: 1nt-2d-3s and 1nt-2d-2nt-p 3c-p-3s ie slow and fast 3 spades i feel forlorn, i only have one partner who knows lebensohl, the others have a large number of misses thanks

in the web browser the tables do not refresh you have to click the refresh butto to update the tables

what happened to bbotv? sometimes i would like to watch vugraph when i am waiting for those interminable rounds of clocked tourneys, or the long waits in unclocked ones when we are gifted with slow opps. thanks

I think in this case what she really needs is material concerning responses to a takeout double. i found this stuff on the net but does not cover the situation on the takeout double: cuebids here there is some material about responses to takeout doubles and overcalls which include the cuebid todouble

i am told it is the women who list no name

How about a button that the host, or another player at the table can click, asking for a player, but there should be options need 1 adv, or need 1 exp, etc... I have said before that i have trouble finding seats with the webbrowser, because it does not refresh by itself. Some times tho, i can find an empty spot in time and then discover the host is only accepting experts. so it could be nice if the host could set the skill level he is prepared to acceept, maybe those tables could even be invisible to those who do not qualify. thanks

+++ is not enough matmat is xxx

3nt has a narural meaning and, bidding a new suit shows a much stronger hand with a self playing suit the more information we find out, the more we display to the opps too i do not think 7 card fits should be avoided at all costs

we need a muted colour scheme also some easier form of spotting the pinned topics i miss my cat woman avatar too

i tried it did not like it felt like bingo i hate bingo

i would not worry about it he could not get a 4th :D ********* I once remember one of those world class games and my partner persuaded me to change the skill level so i could play. i did and we signed up for the game. lo and behold, i was replaced from the game within 1 minute. partner inquired and the td said he removed me because i was not expert, lol. my partner tried to argue that i indeed was-- well in reality my partner was no expert either but he did not get replaced. i suspect the said td must have had me marked as enemy , or had a note in my profile to the extent that i was not expert. i was ok with it, but my partner did suffer 15 boards with an expert sub who could not cuebid :lol:

augie boehm's matchpoints vs imps well augie teaches me things because he always teaches with verbal reasoning which helps my memory. i guess that is not veyr popular as his books do not sell well and he seems to have some kind of niche following. but i have several, if not all of his books. matchpoints are easier for me to play, have always been, and i find myself bored and inattentive when playing partials in imps where it is not worth competing. but because most play at the main bridge club-bbo is imps, i thought the book might improve my experience there, so far i have enjoyed reading it. i also got kit woolsey`s match points and it is veyr nice to have all those strategies collected in one place.

Noooo kidding. And IMO Bridge Probability and Information was the epic fail of all time on that front. An amazing job of taking simple ideas and explaining them partially at great length, so that they sound Byzantine. The message about thinking how suits interact instead of just looking at one suit at a time is something that has been missing from all the other bridge probability books. For a certain type of mathematically inclined expert who has never thought about that question before, that idea might be worth the price of the book. But if you thought from the chapter titles that you were going to learn anything new about LoTT or LTC, or learn anything new OR old about how distributional information and high-card information interact, not there... and if you're new to probability and just hoping to learn the basics of Bayes's Theorem... abandon all hope ye who enter here. One of the people I sold a copy to liked it better than I did. Shrug. At least the quotes introducing each section were cute. Well, glad to hear I wasn't the only one. Bought this book with great anticipation, and read through about half of it. But after I found myself having to re-read (or re-re-read) certain sections, and still not feeling that I was really absorbing the points, I set it aside with a promise to myself to return to it later. I'll still give it another chance, but at least now I know I'm not the only one who struggled to divine what he is saying. well i like his presentation of the probability in the pascal triangle, that makes it easier to remember than raw probabilities if you know the fort ten rows of the pascal triangle.