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Are we?

Have I missed a post from Max Bavin here? :)

Another classic example is when dummy has Jxxxx and leads the J. If you cover with QTx, declarer with AK9xx will pick the suit up; if you play low, declarer is unlikely to finesse.

No, it makes no sense at all if partner is going to behave as though she has no idea what is going on.

So you did. I apologise. However, I have had protestations from others who didn't play in it, about its "discontinuation" and now change of format. I'd just like it to work, and it was clear that it was no longer going to be viable in its original format.

I'm sure arrangements could be made to make sure you got away in time.

No. He wasn't.

That did cross my mind! Why not come over a week earlier?

Not enough fun to actually get you, or enough other people, to play in it last time it was held. People seem to love the idea of a 24 marathon, and have fired off emails about it, made changes to the YC wikepedia entry about it, but when it comes down to it it simply wasn't viable as it was. Interestingly, it seems to have been the same when they tried to hold one in Germany earlier this year. So this is an attempt to find a format that DOES work.

There was some discussion earlier this year about 24 hour marathons when one was organised in Germany, but ended up being cancelled due to insufficient interest. Bearing that in mind, and the declining entries for our last few 24-hour marathons, the Young Chelsea Bridge Club is going to try a different format and hold a 12-hour marathon this year. Further details are on our website, and visitors will be very welcome. Maybe the less gruelling format will allow players to combine it with other activities in a visit to London.

That depends where I am driving :)

Yes, this EBU regulation comes directly from the WBF regulations.

I thought it was more common to pass with a stopper, in case partner wants to play 2Cx.

Congratulations!

With such a hand East would have opened 2H.

This may or may not be true.

Ah, I see now. I thought you were using the other notation for cards played.

I understand it, but thought I would be accused of being humourless/PC if I said I thought it was rather sexist. I wonder how many couples take the "man and wife" option for their wedding ceremony? Probably mainly those who also choose to say the woman should "obey".

Where do four spade tricks come from?

The 2♥ bidder ought to know before bidding whether or not his partner is going to be barred from bidding. If so, it is likely that he would choose to bid spades (or NT, or pass) instead of bidding 2♥.

You may be right, but I'm not sure we can be certain from what we've been told. I've seen players do something like this on a few occasions; sometimes they have been trying to lead, sometimes not. I've seen a player who overheard "three diamonds" at the next table attempt to lead the ♦3 during the auction. He was making a lead by his own admission. I've also seen someone with dementia place the ♥4 on the table. He was trying to bid hearts, not make a lead. Since the card was not an honour card, I think we need to ask the player a bit more about what he thought he was doing when he placed it on the table. If he was putting it there as an attempt to contribute it to a trick, since it would be the first card in that trick I think it would have been a lead. If (as may well be the case) he was trying to make a bid but using the wrong card to do it, then I think it would not be a lead, and we are in L24A territory.

I think the distinction (that is not recognised in North America, and possibly not outside the UK) is that in Puppet Stayman, after 3♦ you bid the four-card major you don't have, but in five-card Stayman you bid the one you do have. I have a feeling (but am happy to be corrected) that in North America the second one of these is played but given the name of the first one. If so, I'm not sure where the term "Puppet" comes from.

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_developer/victor-lesk_cimyq.html - for Androids, not iPhones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_restrictions_on_the_consumption_of_pork