Feegle

Hi Rik Take a look at your 'chat log' that is stored on your computer. It's in the Bridge Base Online folder. My file is called Feegle_chat.txt.

[hv=d=w&v=n&s=sxhakqt8xdjtxxcaq]133|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv] This hand certainly caused a 'difference of opinion' at the table. West opens 4S, passed around to you.

4th best The partner you draw in a high stakes rubber game.

Ainsworth The length of time it takes to get served in a camera shop. Hence, also, how long we will have to wait for the abolition of income tax or the Second Coming. from 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff' Douglas Adams & John Lloyd

Submarine squeeze An advanced declarer play technique my partner uses whilst playing a grand slam.

If I suspect I'm 'frozen' I look at the number of players who are on BBO. This number (showing how many people are logged on to BBO) is on the right of my screen (Windows version). It constantly changes as players arrive/leave the site. If that number freezes I know I'm in trouble.

Klinger outlines a scheme in his book 'Five-Card Majors' (Master Bridge Series) where he calls it 'The Multi-2NT Response'. It combines Jacoby and Bergen into one bid i.e. 2NT. The Multi-2NT shows 6+points and 4+trumps and is wide ranging. It means that with 0-5 and 4 trumps you must obey The Law and raise to 3M, similarly with 0-5 and 5+trumps you must raise to 4M. Briefly, opener bids: 3-original major, minimum opener and to play 3♣ game interest with around 14-17 3♦ game force with around 18+ 3-other-major and 3NT are used to show slam interest and a singleton or void. Of course this stuff runs to a few pages and deals with responders further bids. One advantage (he says) of the scheme is that either player can use 3NT as RKCB and thus rest in 4M rather than 5M if slam is not on.

Slothy makes some good points at the beginning of his 'essay' (on Drake's Equation). I found the following thoughts interesting: "It is entirely possible that our backwater of a planet is literally the only one that has ever borne life. The point is that if there were only one planet that had ever borne life, then it would have to be our planet, for the very good reason that 'we' are here discussing the question! If the origin of life is such an improbable event that it only happened on one planet in the universe, then our planet has to be that planet. So, we cannot use the fact that Earth has life to conclude that life must be probable enough to have arisen on another planet. Such an argument would be circular." [Richard Dawkins]. He goes on to say that we have to have some independent arguments about how easy or difficult it is for life to originate on a planet before we can even begin to answer the question of how many other planets in the universe have life.

'Suitplay' agrees with 'Scansuit'

Aberlour, I see you have the 'Dark Side of the Moon' album cover there. Sad to hear that Richard Wright (keyboard) died of cancer a few weeks ago. (Can recommend 'Pulse' DVD)

Hi This also happened to us. Partner was in last seat and passed instead of hitting the alert button. While he was searching out the undo button dummy was seeing all four hands. Maybe dummy could wait for the opening lead?

I think FD can be turned off by each individual player. Thus after FD has been activated you and your partner can (separately) turn it off leaving only the opponents to view the descriptions. I have not tried this. Unless an automated message goes to the table saying 'south has cleared their view of FD' it would have to be taken on trust.

My partner & I play the multi in the Acol Club. Ours incorporates a 20-22 'balanced' hand with a 5-card major. This means you don't have to open hands like: ♠Ax ♥AKJxx ♦KQxx ♣Ax with 1♥.

Some chap e-mailed the BBC and asked whether Greg was the only man in the history of golf that had just got married (Chris Evert) and yet managed to improve his game B)

Four graduates observe a device/contraption. The enginneering graduate thinks: I wonder how that works. The physics graduate thinks: I wonder why that works. The accountancy graduate thinks: I wonder how much profit there is in that. The media studies graduate thinks: (hidden text, though maybe a complete blank is better :rolleyes: )