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I am interested in estimates of the systems used by the world's top 100 pairs. How many play:

1) Natural, 4 card majors

2) Natural, 5 card majors

3) Strong club, 4 card majors, not primarily a relay system

4) Strong club, 5 card majors, not primarily a relay system

5) Strong club, 4 card majors, primarily a relay system

6) Strong club, 5 card majors, primarily a relay system

7) Weak/strong club, 4 card majors, not primarily a relay system

8) Weak/strong club, 5 card majors, not primarily a relay system

9) Weak/strong club, 4 card majors, primarily a relay system

10) Weak/strong club, 5 card majors, primarily a relay system

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This might be a fairly interesting project.

 

100 pairs is a large enough sample that we can potentially exlcude the usual silliness about who is [or is not] the world's number 1 pair.

 

At the very least, it would be extremely interesting to try to correlate geographical location and bidding systems.

 

Probably the easiest way to proceed is to try to come up with a rough consensus regarding which pairs currently rank in the top 100. Once this is done, it shouldn't be too difficult to determine their basic style.

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Will be very interesting to have such statistics. If u can give me some links where i can find information about champions of world, european and american greatest tournaments and systems playing by them i will do such research.

Misho

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Hi, This is just the beginning of a list, please feel free to add pairs/correct my errors and comment if you want. If there's some way to make this post editable by everybody (Hi admins!) then that would be ideal.

 

Meckstroth - Rodwell: 5 card majors, strong club, many gadgets. Mini-NT.

 

Balicki - Zmudinski: Polish club, 5 card majors. Strong NT. Specialized 2s.

 

Hackett - Hackett: 4 card majors, natural methods, light openings. Weak NT. A system usually called "the science"

 

Blaskett - Bruun: 5 card majors, dual 1c opening (nat or 15-19 bal). Weak NT.

 

Bochi - Duboin: 5 card majors, NT range upon vuln (9-12, 12-14 or 15-17). Artifical responses.

 

de Weis - Muller: 4 card majors, Strong NT

 

Gromov - Petrunin: Precision, 5 card majors 12-15 or 15-17 NT

 

Lauria - Versace: Natural with 5 card majors and strong NT

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