Free Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Usually someone checks out all the convention cards and gives a report (and statistics) on what types of systems people play in the big events. Has anyone done this for the current European championships? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Summary Statistics All data was taken from the ecats web site (http://www.ecatsbridge.com/documents/docdefault.asp?page=Open+Teams&start=c%3A%5Cinetpub%5Cwwwroot%5Cecatsbridge%5Cdocuments%5Cfiles%5C2006+European+Championships+Warsaw%5CConvention+Cards) Systems in use in order of popularity (please note, these are BROAD categories. For example, Natural 5 card majors includes things as diverse as fantoni-nunes) "Natural", 5 card majors (2/1 GF, Standard American, etc) = 33Strong Club systems (mainly precision variants) = 25Nebulous Club (Polish, Carrot, etc) = 16"Natural", 4 card majors = 11Nasz = 5 (Forcing Club, strong 2♣ or 2♦)"Natural", 5+ Spades and 4+ Hearts = 4Magic Diamond = 1 2♦ openings in order of popularity Multi = 45Strong (predominantly 18-19 balanced or - alternatively - GF) = 11Weak 2 = 9Ekrens = 9Wilkosz (not even sure if this is legal in the RR) = 5Intermediate = 5Weak 2 in Hearts + "something" = 5Precision = 4Mini-roman = 1Spades + minor = 1 General comments: 1. Many countries exhibit enormous amounts of uniformity with respect to the systems being used. 2. Helgemo and Helness have a definite sense of humor. They list a natural weak 2♦ opening as an unusual bid that might require special defenses. 3. Anyone who complains about the Polish conventions cards has never seen the Estonians in (in)action Belarusarlovic-zhuravel Naszmedusheuski-timakhovic = Naszzhukov-karbanovic = Nasz Belgiumcaputo-demarcin = Natural, 5 card majorsderoos-deroos = Natural, 5 card majorspolet-kaplan = Natural, 5 card majors BulgariaBatov Bonev = Strong ClubMarashev Petkov = Strong ClubStefanov Aronov = Strong Club Croatiaborevkovic-zoric = 2/1 GFBrguljan-Rase = Polish Clubpravdic-cekol = Natural, 5 card majors Denmarkbjarnarson-askgaard = Precisionnielsen-schou = Acolschaltz-schaltz = Natural, 5 card majors Englandarmstrong-holland = Natural, 4 card majorssimpson-price = natural, 4 card majorstownsend-gold = natural, 4 card majors Estonianaber-luks = Relay Precisiontihane-dalberg = Precisionoja-kask = Precision Finlandelsinen-kiemo = Natural, 5+♠/4+♥nyberg-koistinen = Magic Diamond (strong Diamond, int club)salomaa-backstrom = Strong club Francebompis-saintemarie = Natural, 5 card majorschemla-cronier = Natural, 5 card majorslevy-mouiel = Natural, 5 card majors Germanygotard-piekarek = polish clubMarsal-Fritsche = Natural, 4 card majorswladow-elinsecu = Strong club Greecefilios-papakyriacopoulos = natural, 5 card majorskaramanlis-matziaris = Polish clubkoykouselis-zozis = natural, 5 card majors Hungarydumbovic-winkler = 2/1 gfszalay-macskasy = Precisionszilagyi-honti = Precision Icelandbaldursson-jonsson = Ice relay (precision)eirnarsson-haraldsson = 2/1 game forcemagnusson-thorvaldsson = natural, 5 card majors. OUR FIRST weak 2♦ opening! Irelandgarvey-carroll = carrot clubhanlon-mcgann = carrot clubmesbur-fitzgibbon = precision IsraelBirman-Fohrer = natural, 5+♠/4+♥Grinberg-Pachtman = 2/1 GFlevinger-liran = natural, 5 card majors Italybocchi-duboin = natural, 5 card majorsfantoni-nunes = natural, 5 card majorslauria-versace = natural, 5 crd majors Latviageste-khazanov = Polish clubrubenis-hayes = 4 card majors, strong NTrubins-romanovska = Strong club Luxemborghelling-hein = 5 card majors. ZAR POINTS MENTIONED ON CCloefgren-bausback = Strong clubrenno-prorok = Polish club Lithuaniababickas-tyla = Polish Clublukinskas-michailovas = Polish Clubvainikonis-olanski = Nasz Netherlandsbertens-bakkeren = Dutch Doubletonmuller-dewijs = Tarzan precisionwestra-ramondt = Acol Norwaybrogeland-saelensminde = natural, 5+ ♠/4+♥ekren-tundal = relay precision. Ekrens is playing Ekrenshelgemo-helness = 5+♠/4+♥. Alert weak 2♦ as may require special defense Polandbalicki-zmudzinski = Polish clubgawrys-chmurski = Polish clubkowalski-tuszynski = Polish club Portugalmatos-cruzeiro = 2/1 GFpessoa-castanheira = 2/1 GFsantos-paz = 2/1 GF Romaniabriciu-ghigheci = Natural, 5 card majorsrotaru-munteanu = Natural, 5+ ♠/4+♥stirbu-serpoi = Strong club Russiagromov-dubinin = Strong clubkhokhlov-matushko = Polish clubkrasnosselski-rekunov = Polish Club San MarinoBriolini-fiorini = Precisiongaddi-pizza = Natural, 5 card majorssoroldoni-zaccaria = Natural, 4 card majors Scotlandmatheson-short = 2/1 GFsime-sanders = Acolsteel-mcgeorge = Natural, 5 card majors SerbiaDjuricic-Parezanin = Natural, 4 card majorsVlajnic-Zipovski = Strong club Spainbasabe-pablos = natural, 5 card majorsbordallo-knap = natural, 5 card majorswichman-wasik = natural, 5 card majors Swedenefraimsson-morath = carrot clubfredin-bjornlund = Natural, 5 card majorsnystrom-bertheau = Relay Precision Switzerlandabouchanabb-yalcin = natural, 5 card majorsmossop-zivkovic = 2/1 gfpiedra-nikolenkov = strong club Turkeypehlivan-dogan = Natural, 5 card majorssen-gur = natural, 5 card majorssohtorik-eksioglu = 2/1 GF WalesCasey- Kurbalija = AcolRees-Kurbalija = Natural, 5 card majorsTedd-Salisbury = Acol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted August 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Tnx :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbleighton Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Richard: Thanks. What I found striking is that most of the 25 strong club pairs (~20?) played a Precision variant, yet only 4 of them played a Precision 2D. Did you happen to notice, did many of the 1D openers allow zero diamonds? Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Richard: Thanks. What I found striking is that most of the 25 strong club pairs (~20?) played a Precision variant, yet only 4 of them played a Precision 2D. Did you happen to notice, did many of the 1D openers allow zero diamonds? Peter Some of the pairs that didn't use a "Precision" 2♦ opening used 2♥ to show the same hand type. Unfortunately, I didn't spend much time looking at the expected length of the 1♦ opening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Interesting to note that there are 10 difference uses for 2♦, but the F-word doesn't appear among them. <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Interesting to note that there are 10 difference uses for 2♦, but the F-word doesn't appear among them. :)Townsend-Gold (England) use 2♥ for it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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