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Hmmmmmmm no sharks... a few card-sharks i imagine .... jajaja

i agree with you Misho although would like to alter your comment a bit...copyright withstanding :P 'The director's decision can't be biased B) on individual characteristics of competitor and fail to make right bid, because lack of knowledge (in this case right hand evaluation) do not exuse the competitor.' The point i am making is that it is difficult for a director (esp. in local competitions/drives when most of players are familiar with each other's styles) to make a call on a particular hand by a particular competitor if that competitor has a tendency to make off-centre calls regularly, and judge it simply in the context of that particular hand in isolation. Also, my fellow Britain, cardsharp, made a valid point about the 2♣ psyche controversy, at least in UK. A hand similar to the one that started the thread came up in latter stages of national competition and aroused a lot of debate as to whether to strengthen the rules regarding a 'psyche' of a 2♣ opener (the person in question recently opened a 1NT with a 2 count and ended up making 1 trick (on a defensive error) hee hee... with opponents at other table in 6♠X -1 in a very reasonable contract: cost him the match) . Two nationally-recognised TDs who play at my club, and seem to have some sway in the corridors of power, cant agree on the matter B) so little chance of a resolution there !!! The crux of the argument seems to be as to what constitutes a GF bid and whether it is possible to remove any subjective assessment as to whether one is or not, which in itself, of course, is ludricrous. A player may make a 2♣ GF bid genuinelyassessing it as GF, irrespective of his/her level, whereas another person may never think it is. The operative word here is genuine in the sense that a person makes a bid knowing it is in breach of any law put forward... P.S. Misho i wish to disagree with you about Bulgaria being FREE!!! Bought a coffee in Sofia for 4.8 leva!!! :D: not FREE in my books. What was even more frustrating was that i had ordered a sandwich and a coke :D

I have to say Free that this advice is well worth taking on board.... May i say though, it may be even wiser to extend this philosophy to indulge in NO competitive sport/past-time whatsoever with a loved one :P this includes 1) Scrabble, 2) Trivial Pursuit 3) especially Sumo wrestling ('spin the bottle' is the only game i can imagine that would have a fruitful outcome). Any scenario where you can pass judgement, however un/justified it may be, and for this to be misinterpreted, as 85% of the time it usually is!! is best avoided. Men are From Mars and Women are from Venus is an apt and unfortunately true theoretical model of this Man Woman thing ... Well thought it was worth giving my humble opinion... ....Happily spinning in my planetary orbit.....

I have to say syl that playing bridge with my wife, retrospectively, was not that pleasant an experience for several reasons.... 1) she was not as passionate about the game as i was and could not understand why i got upset (especially with myself in a perverted masochistic self-flagellating sort of way)...or got disproportionately excited when i played a hand technically well (or so i thought) .... 2) i think that unless you have colossal self-control, it is so much easier to express your emotions with your spouse in a way that you would not normally do with a partner you are not involved with....in fact, it is so gleamingly obvious that it is best to bite your lip and forget about it as you have to go home with this person at the end of the nite and try and co-habit to the best of your abilities without a bidding-box next to you and a convention to remember..but you ALWAYS have to say something :unsure: which happens to be the most inappropriate thing to say and one she reads, more often than not, an encyclopeadia of innuendo and unintentional invective into..... 3) nothing for this point...just that psychologists say always good to have odd number of points...sort of mental Feng Shui.... Needless to say we are no longer married...and a mutual friend told me that she refuses to socialise at all with a colleague who happens to be a bridge buff :)))) citing that she trembles whenever she sees a bridge hand written down

hee hee grazie Tritina.. se abbiamo il tempo veneremo al club certamente.... devo scrivere all indirezzo sul sito se vogliamo giocare una sera particolare?? umm 150 Euros per notte? lol provo il Vaticano prima :unsure:) forse piú buon mercato :)

As a seasoned director of 3 tourneys :unsure: ...one at 4 a.m. in the morning making it debatable whether i was 'directing' at all.....i can say that each time was a nightmare of Kafkaesque proportions.... On my last one i had more tables than i had expected/hoped for. I had a posse of 2 co-directors and the tourney began....Just as the tourney started, we had a mass exodus due to disconnections....in a moment of frustration I sent a private message to fellow TD expressing my anguish and used the F word ..... unfortunately it got sent to the tournament by mistake and a lot of ???? from players and kibbers ensued.... Obviously, i was a bit embarrassed and started to express my sorrow at being rude and offering to commit hari-kiri on the spot....however, i was disconnected in my moment of confession and repentance....i came back and went back to the tourney as quickly as possible (funny how ISP takes longer at these times) so that people didnt think i left on purpose.... i wrote to the tourney that i was sorry for swearing and gave a rather poor excuse as to why i did...something about wanting to write 'Duck' or something :) along with a few other fully credible reasons..... To my surprise i got more question marks than when i actually had sworn....and thought i perhaps had put my foot in it....i asked my co TD whether i had said something wrong with my new comments.. She said that she saw nothing in the tournament window and i told her she must be mistaken... At this point, i realised that, in my rush, i had entered Le Lapins tourney and was writing utter gibberish to a tourney and all my comments had no context at all.... I apologised to Le Lapin and went to find a stone to hide under...

Ciao a tutti!!!! So che forse non sia il proprio posto a fare un messagio come questo...peró...sono desperato :unsure: Io e la mia amica andremo a Roma e Firenze all' inizia d'Aprile.....vogliamo restare a Roma per forse due o tre giorni.. e mi demandavo che voi ci raccommandate degli alberghi in roma dové possiamo restare...... Non siamo ricchi :))) .... e né siamo poverini... un albergo di buon mercato ma igenico....l'amica é un po fastidiosa hee hee;) Anche, gli indirizzi per klubs di bridge in Roma?? Grazie a tutti

'A93 opposite Q8642 49,1739% for 4 tricks by playing the Ace and a low towards the Q.' 49,1739% seems rather good odds Mike :unsure: or you using European numerical punctuation ;0

The expression "One Down is good bridge" comes to mind ;) :)

Adding this in my quest to become an intermediate poster - principal of 'fast arrival'

At the risk of turning my regular partnership into an ex-partnership i feel duty-bound to rescind what i have just said...whatever amendment that may have been in the US constitution?? yes we have changed to DONT, amazing how one remembers things with one's neck nestled in the guillotine ... the reason being that we came to the conclusion that the frequency of a CAPP penalty coupled with the frequency of it back-firing made a DONT defence more worthwhile IMHO (gotta practice these totally redundant and fatuous netabbreviations)...... waiting in morbid anticipation for other, no doubt more lucid, replies to aisha's post than mine....

:angry: As the (self-appointed) expert who happens to be your regular partner, Aisha...since when did we chagne our defence to DONT????????? :o :rolleyes: Ironic that this my first post: baptism of fire!