Hanoi5

It can also be bridge defense: Down is to Win as Made is to Lose.

I voted O, for DW looks like MO upside-down.

This one will make your day jj: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/dec15_1/b4965

X, 4♥ over 4♦ or 3NT and 4♠ over 4♣.

So partner doesn't have 3 spades. Why can't he have 2? What would 2♦ show in this context? Could I get a 2-cards-to-an-honour support? Maybe I just want to play in the known 10 card fit, even though it's a minor, then I understand JLall's 4♣, but I wouldn't do that here, just 2♦ for me.

I have 5 spades and dummy will come up with either 6 or 5 very good ones, if partner holds ♠AQ♥AKQ hearts should give us 4 tricks. I'd lead a heart, too.

I want your job.

I wouldn't know for sure what I'd like to eat for a last meal. It would probably depend on the mood of the moment. Right now I'm thinking about fast food, so I just remember talking with my wife about the best KFC chicken we've tried: Trinidad and Tobago's spicy chicken. That was good. Recently a lady in a class commented what she thought was the meaning of life: living as long as you can under the best conditions and being happy and not hurting anyone in the process. I thought this was so simple and yet so true, so I see no problem in electing the best meal you could as your last one...especially if you somehow know for certain that it would be your last and you cannot change that fact. Edit: I just read the KFC reference in the post this topic originated from, that was funny.

I have a book by Borel too on bridge probabilities but is post-war. It taught me to shuffle. (I only read the first chapter, I'm not a mathemathician...)

On these conditions X and 3♣. However I don't understand the concept of not mandatory support doubles...

Unless it is an individual tournament you need a partner, which you can get on your own or by adding your name to a list of persons without partners and waiting to be invited (or invite someone from that list). Of course you need to do this in advance prior to the start of the tournament. After your name is on the list of players (or pairs) for a tournament, you'll be forcefully taken to the table at the beginning of the game. The only way to play in a tourney after it has begun is by adding your nick to the substitutes list, in which case you'll be invited by a Director to play for someone who retired from a tourney.

I agree with the aforementioned diagnostic.

Thanks, this time I added it to favorites.

I lost the link to the help page on how to use the handviewer, any help?

I predict someone will tackle him in a game before South Africa. If not then Spain is not gonna win the Cup...again.

They evaluate better. They play better. They seize (and create and are given) opportunities better.

Any game has versions that manipulate its rules and bend them, etc to create similar games. For example, I heard that in Cuba they sometimes play with the bases in reverse (you run to third base first...). You can play many games around the basket with a basketball, like one we call 'clock' in which you start right below the basket and move away trying to score from around the basket; everytime you miss your opponents gets his/her turn. In chess you have piece-passing, two players against two players; each partner with different-coloured pieces; everytime you get a piece your partner can put that piece up on his board (not doing check) and that eats up one turn. You have 'Kamikaze' chess where a piece that 'eats' another dissappears with it from the board. And 'nom-nom' (name in English by me) where everytime you can 'eat' a piece you are obliged to, and the player who's left with no pieces wins. You can play bridge 'backwards' like trying NOT to make any trick. This was called 'Nulos' in Spanish. So instead of 1NT where you have to make 7 tricks you played 1 Nulo and you had to make 6 (or less) tricks. 7 Nulos meant you had to make 0 tricks; interesting, right? I kinda made one up which I might describe later, do you know of any other bridge 'versions'?

I'm finessing. South is probably 2=8=2=1. If he had a singleton ♦ (I have to ruff the first diamond with the Ace) then it's 2=8=1=2, and no finesse, but I'm sure it's the first one.

I think I'd bid 6♠, now. East's bidding might be a ruse to get doubled in 6♠ and make it, and that way it is ok.

I voted both. I mean, partner opened and I jumped in a new suit (in that case 2♥ would have been non-forcing, I guess) and partner opened and I'm bidding freely at the 3-level. However this situation is very dependant on what doubling and later bidding hearts would mean (they could both be non-forcing if I double on all strong hands...).

X, ♣A

This topic is full of bacon. Just to check something, when you hear the country Venezuela, what do you think about?

1♥, 4♦ seems fine. I might have been a little tipped off by the useful response by partner. Hearts are not that pretty anyway.

Interesting.

1♦. I have too little in the Majors to worry about Pass-Pass-Pass.