Rossoneri

Quite right! Or as Ant590 would put it, let partner rot in his own pile of faeces...

I can never seem to play reverse count, however reverse attitude std count works fine for me.

Yes it is possible, you just need to select your preferred type of IMPs scoring after you set up your pairs game.

1NT, next.

How useful would air conditioning be on the tube? I was freezing along the way from Hounslow Central to Earl's Court 2 days ago...

1. Either treatment is possible. 2. Depends on partnership agreement I think. 3. High potential for running into trouble if you play it this way. 4. How do you propose to do this?

I don't think an alert is needed, but it needs to be disclosed if asked about style.

NATO = No Action, Talk Only? Further elaboration needed? :)

Happy Birthday Dwayne! I remember seeing your birthday in your BBO profile =)

Exactly. I have learnt more about 2/1 from reading the forums/other online sources than from reading any of these 2/1 books.

I would have started fearing greatly if it was Brighton, Sussex! But then again I won't be in the UK during summer to play in Brighton...

Quite right! Most people start out with the piano and forget that other instruments are vastly different. I was once guilty of this.

Why is the first post May 2007?!

Yup, what the other 2 said. You just need to get used to the idea of semitones and whole tones.

3♥ for me.

Thanks for the heads-up, would be good to get some extra matches for Portland Bowl preparation...

Well, the best way I guess would be to find out and make friends with people whom you agree with and play with them. And of course, accept that if you play with randoms people will just come and go. Star novices are nothing...I know of a star who created another account so that no one would bug him! Generally I would say let's not have a rating system, after all, the real experts know who the other real experts are and they play with each other so often. (I can almost always find a real expert/WC table to kib, I am sure matmat would agree with this.) Rating systems always seem to bring out the worst in people IMO, e.g. Yahoo Games. P.S. How many times has someone posted about this on the forums? I've lost count.

As the others said, 3♦ shows shortness. As the others said, this is not the best.

I would go up with the A and return J...would be much to my amusement of course.

Experience has told me that bidding 1♠ with 3 cards is asking for trouble, no matter how good the suit is.

It depends on the utility derived and the indifference curve of the individual.

BMW (Bus, Mass Rapid Transit, Walk!)

1♠. Don't like my options after opening 2♣ and rebidding 2♠.

3♠, for the reasons outlined by jdonn.

3♣, even though it can be problematic and bring us too high sometimes.