bszeto Posted May 9, 2003 Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 I have been playing with my wife ( a pure beginner) in a local club for about 3 years. We use a very natural system - 4-card open, strong 1NT, no transfers, no relay, no negative double, only conventions are blackwood and stayman . Very strangely, some experienced players treated us like using HUM system! 20 years ago, I learned bridge using the system mentioned above. Nowadays I note that some "bridge teachers" teaching their bridge beginner using transfers, RKC..... Terrible! Seems no one knows how to play bridge without conventions..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted May 9, 2003 Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 I play chess now for a hundred years. Of course I know, that the only legal opening is e2e4, followed by e7e5 and f2f4. When I visit a chess club lately, I saw them play some funny new things, called queens gambit or sicilian... How terrible! Did they forget the one and only right way to do it? Sorry Luke, you are just wrong. Their is nothing really nothing fancy about transfers. Without them you have to learn a lot too (f.e. how to bid strong hands, how to force pd etc.) So there is no need to hold transfers as a secret for the real good ones. RCKB is more complicate then plain Blackwood, but a good stayman sequence is harder to learn.My bottom line: All of us have their own standards about what is nice and easy, what is usefull and what is just not needed for beginners.But their are some common ways, which are used by experienced and successful teachers. And to teach these conventions is definetly one good way. Of course you can play bridge without conventions. You can play basketball with bigger baskets, soccer without offside our chess without castleling. Are you better, if you can play with less conventions?I doubt that. Kind Regards Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhutobello Posted May 9, 2003 Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 Have to agree with Codo, allthough I myself play like you and your wife:) What makes up for some good conventions though, is that you both understand more of the behaviour of the other part, that gives you an edge:)Shall you, on the other hand, play with other partners, then you need more driving rules, and there the conventions helps:) So I think I will have to studdy some rules in the near future, or no one will play with me:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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