Good Idea Problem Set

[inquiry]

The BB-Forum membership has grown considerably in the last few months. Early on there was a series of "Test your play" kind of problems entitled "good ideas" that were designed just for novices/beginners/intermediate players posted on this site. The idea was that expert and advanced players would find interesting hands, and then post them in this discussion group as practice tools for our members and guest.

 

None have been posted lately, and of course, now with the WONDERFUL "Master play" on line, they may not even be necessary. But the question is, are these useful to the members and would you like to see more of them?

 

The original problems are still here, but may be hard to find. So I have provided the following links for any beginner wishing to give these a try. Careful, all these have been answered now, so you should stop and solve the problem before reading the remainder of the threads that give the answer. Of course, if you find a better solution... POST it. :-)

 

Original good idea problem

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=155

Good Idea 2

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=153

Good idea 3

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=152

Good idea 4

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=150

Good idea 5

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=149

Good idea 6

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=144

Good idea 7

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=148

Good idea 8

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=146

Good idea 9

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=147

Good idea 10 (a harder problem if I remember)

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=143

A second good idea #10

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=130

Good idea 11

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=132

Good idea 12

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=131

[cnszsun]

I think it's still a great idea. At least beginner bridge players will be more active in this forum. They can not only raise problem but also answer problem.

Although i'm not an expert player, i believe many players like me will be willing to post interesting hands here if they have right answers.

[Trpltrbl]

I think it's still a great idea. At least beginner bridge players will be more active in this forum. They can not only raise problem but also answer problem.

Although i'm not an expert player, i believe many players like me will be willing to post interesting hands here if they have right answers.

Many times there are no right answers. You want to teach the right thing and not confuse them.

 

Mike :rolleyes:

[Free]

Dont care, but I like difficult ones more...

[inquiry]

Dont care, but I like difficult ones more...

Well, of course FREEE, none of the problems in the Good idea set would be challenging for you. They are meant for novices, beginners and low-level intermediates, and they are POSTED IN THE BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE FORUM. They were never meant to challeng a player of your ability. Instead, you are the kind of person who should be helping find and post such "easy" problems in the good idea set instead of trying to solve them.

 

The "more challenging" problems can be found in the forums "Interesting Bridge Hands" and "advanced and Expert forum". . While for the most part, the good idea problems are appropriate for beginners and intermediates, the problems found it in the advance/expert and interesting hand forums are of varying ability. Some truely difficult, others more suited for the intermeidate or less level. Here is a list of links to the "mored difficult" problems found in these other discussion groups (in no particular order)....(for future, the website with the links jumps around so these links in weeks may no longer work... but the showtopic number etc will still work, but the bridge2 part might change).

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=105

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1626

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...hp?showtopic=94

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...hp?showtopic=98

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=103

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...hp?showtopic=99

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=100

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=481

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=676

 

This one probably should be "good idea" for intemediates

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1651

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=113

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=115

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=568

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=611

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1109

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1235

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1332

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1503

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1962

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=2000

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=2061

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1401

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1660

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=2009

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1403

 

And from the Advanced/Expert group

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=160

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=465

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=464

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=555

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1368

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1283

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=537

 

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=507

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1526

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=613

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=626

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...p?showtopic=930

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1514

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1254

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1423

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1112

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=1617

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/~bridge2/...?showtopic=2008

[badderzboy]

As a beginner/intermediate, I find the hands and challenges very interesting and they lead to good pointers in approach/technique.

 

Could I suggest that adv+ only post after a couple of days to allow beginners / intermediates to post their approach and subsequently to then receive helpful advice on how it should be done!

 

When the solution is posted - it's too easy to peek before trying!

 

Cheers

 

Steve K

[inquiry]

Hi Steve,

 

Of course, problems posted in Beginner/Intermediate forum should not be answered by "experts" like free and Mike, and Advanced players like Mike. Just as they really should not be voting in this poll. I mean, the question is rather Beginners, novice and intermediate players find the good idea hands interesting. They really SHOULD not be a challenge at all to experts, after all.

 

In fact, I posted my interesting hand and advanced/expert hand to give those guys something to do rather than complain how easy the beginner hands were.

 

Ben

[Free]

Woops, thought it was in the advanced... Sorry Ben, don't be angry :(