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Interesting!

My version of SAYC, that is true indeed. It did not occur to me that THE SAYC defined 3 hearts as gameforce. The point I was trying to make was that 3 spades was a better bid playing a system where 1 spade opening has a wide range in strength as opposed to a strong club system. Bidding 4 spades might be slightly better than bidding 3 spades playing a strong club system. Could not miss the opportunity to express that opinion when Justin just declared 3s period.

Playing SAYC or similar, a clear cut 3♠ Partner will know that we might be stretching, after all we could have bid 3♥ showing a sound raise+. 3♠ might well be the par contact facing say 14-17 (semi)-balanced. On the other hand, playing a strong club system, opps will more often than not make game with the majority of strength. Partner being limited. they will have a probable 9+ card fit, maybe even double-fit. The final guess is over 4♠ not 3♠

Yes of course, please disregard. I was mixing up BSS and BML.

Yes, reverse engineering would be nice, making a BML file from FD. It would be nice not to lose comments. That happens now when you convert to FD and publish using downagain's upload. http://bridge.downagain.be/FD/public.php Let's do that! Let's assume that the ressources are available, to enhance the parts of BBO that deal with Bidding systems development and training. Requirements: Capture explanations at the table. When playing or practising bidding online, capture explanations at the table and store in systemfile. The explanations are to be accepted/modified (see below). History. When playing or practising bidding, make a cross-reference between the resulting lin file and the system. Reviewing at later stage can help remembering system. This feature can also be the fundament for statistics. Make it possible to save comments related to each deal/auction. Review. Incorporate a review feature, similar to Windows Word that allows accept/reject of PD's suggestions. When changes are accepted, audit trail should be made so that changes can be tracked. The idea is to support commitment to changes. Quiz. Run a bidding tool in a "quiz mode", exercising those auctions that tend to me hard to remember. Selecting auctions could be based on the auction being marked as tricky, or it could be based on historical data, that is, let the tool present bids that have not occured during online training or play. Challenge the Champs. Prepare lin files with hands bid (and played) by great players for bidding pratice or play. Save result as described above. Thanks Kungsgeten! I like BML.

NF OK, 5♣is ugly, but here the gain was 14 imps and the risk was 4 imps. The outcome will be different next time.

UI or not, I'd bid 6♣. Prefer immediate 4NT.

Declarer may ditch a ♣ on dummy's ♥. Partner did not double 2 ♥ after all. It is not unlikely that declarer has a two-suiter with singleton ♣ and a singleton ♥ King or Ace.

North is marked with some length in spades. Possibly, he might have made a preference to 4♥ with a doubleton honour. He will have a singleton heart more often than a singleton club, making a lead-directing double of clubs more likely to establish a trick.. On the other hand, South could have proposed 4♥ with a fair six-card suit. His failure to do so is an argument in favour of a ♥ lead. Is this reasoning too speculative, something you invent when you hold East' hand? The full hand [hv=pc=n&s=saq8hq7djt9654cq7&w=st2h962dk732cj962&n=skhkjt84daq8cat43&e=sj976543ha53dck85]399|300[/hv]

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Obviously, a singleton fits well with A10863 and Qx(x) is useful against KJ1083. Would you open the hand with 1NT with that Diamond holding? [hv=pc=n&s=sa6hjt63dkjt85ckq]133|100[/hv]

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Having bid 3 suits, we play jump in 4th suit as splinter in openers 1st suit. This is more frequent than splinter in openers suit. Admittedly, we give up showing a 2 suiter.

I finesse both red suit and if one of them fails, several good things need to happen

Pardon, it is not. Some people just like to bid 2♣ naturally, especially if 1♣ only promises 2 cards and let 2♦ show majors