Another intermediate lesson Friday

[paulhar]

On Friday, July 9 at 1PM Eastern Daylight Time in the US, I'm going to try another lesson. All that think they can benefit are welcome. The intended level is Intermediate. Good novices that have a working knowledge of Blackwood are also welcome. It's going to be a different format than the last lesson and I want to see how the new format works. I chose this time so that European intermediates can benefit. It will be in the Main Bridge Club, at teaching table paulhar.

 

The topic is Blackwood and the problems are not trivial. You should be comfortable with normal Blackwood (or RKCB) as I am not teaching Blackwood. I intend to discuss some interesting situations involving Blackwood.

 

At some point, four students will be playing a hand. I'll let you know who has the interesting problem on the hand and if you are kibitzing, you should kibitz that hand only for maximum benefit. Try to figure out what you would do. To kibitz only one hand, put your mouse over the board number in the upper left hand corner and you'll see a kibitzer name list. Click your own name. You'll be able to edit your profile to see just one hand.

 

The following are good guidelines but will not be covered in this lesson:

1) Don't bid Blackwood if you don't know what to do with the answer

2) Don't bid Blackwood with a void

3) Don't bid Blackwood with a worthless doubleton

 

The lesson material should be pertinent whether you play normal Blackwood, 0314, or 1430.

 

I will be asking the students a lot of questions on this hand. If you are confident that you already know the topic being discussed, please don't say anything until the less confident students have had a chance to discuss their thoughts. This will not be a forum for showing off.

 

Student questions: Strongly encouraged. If you don't know something, chances are that there are others who also don't know and might be afraid of asking. If anybody chastizes you for not knowing something, they will be promptly booted from the room.

 

This is an experiment to see whether teaching online is feasable. I would appreciate any comments on how to improve the lessons. Any of you that came to Wednesday's lesson should tell me which format they prefer.