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Thanks for the reply, Mike. It seems that the support redouble and a direct raise can be used to distinguish between 3 and 4+ card support ; maybe keep the direct raise for 4+ card support and the redouble for exactly 3 card support..

Hi all! I have a fairly basic takeout double question. The bidding sequenc shown is : LHO, Pard, RHO, you. 1C - P - 1H - X 1) What are the various ways of playing this double? Does it show atleast 4-4 in the unbid suits, or simply 4+ in the other major UNLESS the bidding was 1C - P - 1D - X? 2) What point range is typically implied? Is this llike a negative double in Standard American, thus promising 6+ pts or more like an opening hand? I would imagine that with something like 1H - P - 1S - X, the hand would have to be stronger since you force pard to bid at the 2 level. 3) As opener in this hand, would a redouble show 3+ heart support / can it be used to show something else? Thanks for your inputs, and sorry if I insulted anyone's intelligence! -G

Thanks, all, for detailed instructions for BBO on Macs! It works without a cinch!

Hi barmar,m one more q. where do i place symbols.ttf in my Mac? thanks!

hi tk3 and barmar, thanks for many suggestions here and in the BBO for Mac OS X thread. i have a question : since my windows laptop crashed, i do not have a windows machine from where to transfer symbols.ttf to my Mac. can i get this from anyplace online? should it be fine if i get a friend to mail this to me from their windows machines? thanks! girish

Hi all, Does anyone know of a site other than the official USBF one where one can view the board scores in "relatively" real time? USBF is pretty bad in updating stuff, and I was wondering (at work!) what was happening in the Jacobs - Cayne quarterfinal. I cannot seem to find any site that gives a running score / atleast IMP scores as the boards finish. Any help is appreciated, and sorry if this is covered elsewhere, I am a newbie here! Girish