Deanrover Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 Indy tourneys play a big role on BBO. However, at the beginning of every new round you have to sort out some semblence of a system. This is time consuming and annoying, besides which you can't cover everything. Take a typical situation. RHO opens 1NT and you have a 2 suiter. Maybe you should assume natural, but then nobody wants to lose out to those who bother to make enquiries. But asking takes up time, e.g. p says "CApp" and you say "Dont know CApp" (note that you can't make a suggestion having seen your hand), and you give UI that you are interested in bidding. To avoid this UI you should always ask this q, but then most people won't and a smart declarer can draw conclusions if the opps did not ask what they played. It would be nice if users had to register their preferences over a number of areas, and BBO made suggestions. Now, bidding is a very complex area, and if full harmony was too be ensued it would require lots complex logic operators and technical programming that would not be a useful way to spend time. You would have to place an ordering over stuff such as Acol/Sayc/2o1/Precision/Goren/Moscito/Polish Club/etc.3 and 5th/2 and 4th/other stuffudca/standardmckinney/odd&evenCAPP/DONT/LANDY/NATURALNo blackw/blackw/1430/03/14"Over ps 2C opening do you like 2d=weak or 2d=waiting,2h=weak" Much of this will be optional, but perhaps some essentials should be made compulsory. BBO now makes suggestions as to partnersip agreements. e.g. "You and you p agree on and are thus assumed to be playing Acol3/5standard carding0314LANDY " You were unable to reach agreement on the following, but BBO suggests "Mckinney etc." This tool could perhaps more importantly be used to help find compatible partners online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spwdo Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 hi, CC obligated woud solve a lot of probs, simply click on convention and make out a couple with some basic things u can play (conventions+ systems) and more things for regular partnerships, in my tourneys we highly encourage use of a cc, wont be long before it will become obligated to post one. Some sites have this already where no tourney is played without posting a cc. IBD webiste has a library where u can see,study,save cc`s of diffrent partnerships to start encouraging and give more possibiltys for convention cards. www.internetbridgedomain.com Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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