inquiry Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Mark (mpefritz) played (misplayed) the following hand. He has kindly offered it up as a lesson for BIL players. In fact, he prepared a marked up lin file so that you can play the hand as if you where him. I have attached the file Mark prepared so you can try it. [hv=d=n&v=n&n=saq97h92dq98652ca&s=sjha853dajckqj853]133|200|Scoring: IMPWest North East South - 1♦ 1♥ 2♣ Pass 2♠ Pass 3NT Pass Pass Pass [/hv] Click to play the attached hand. Thanks, for going to the trouble to prepare the hand Mark.mark.lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcLight Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 How do I view it?(Im at work and dont have the BBO movie viewer software available. Is that the software I use?) What was the opening lead? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Heres an excerpt from a hand that I misplayed: In an suit contract (not diamonds) I had AK doubleton of diamonds, and pard had QJxx. Pard lead the Q, I played the K, then followed with the A, then another suit. What I should have done was play the A on the Q, then played the K.This would alert pard that I was playing the suit in a strange way (not letting the Q ride or not K then A, lowest of touching honors). Hopefully he would realize I had a doubleton. And then pard could give me a suit preference signal on the 2nd round of Diamonds. (right out of Bill Roots How to Defend a Bridge Hand). It was the first time I was playing with that pard, and I didnt think he would know what to make of my A then K, so I played K then A. But I think it was a mistake. Without discussing this, I would not have realized that his card on the 2nd round would be a suit preference signal. But I was very glad that this was brought to my attention, as I'll be aware of it in the future and discuss it with that pard. I very much like having people point out mistakes in my carding!!! Even if its in public at the table. (The person who did so did it privately, in a private message) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted January 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 If you have BBO gaming software (netbridgevu) installed on your computer (the software you use to play bridge on the BBO), that is the program to use. Most likely, you ahve associated LIN files with this program, so you can just choose to open this file. If you are worried, you can download this file and look at it in notepad first... lin files are plain text files, and as such pose no risk of "virus" etcs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgr Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Does the link to the lin work?I get an error if I try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted January 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Does the link to the lin work?I get an error if I try it. It has been downloaded 11 times so I assume it works, but the original file is on my computer (mark sent it to me), so maybe I am loading it off my hard disk...but it seemst to work fine for me. Can someone who has managed to download it successfully say so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 It works, nice hand! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceptic Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 works fine for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 It works just fine. Nice hand to learn people that counting is VERY important :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted January 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 It works just fine. Nice hand to learn people that counting is VERY important :P Yes and also suggest some defensive possibilities as well... since the winning line on the current defense is 100%, the defender might want to mix it up no matter what his spade holding is... that is, at the very least give declearer a losing option. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Damn; wish I would have set up my 2♦ hand in this format. Identical format to Cohen's LM Pairs CD's. Fantastic! Next play hand I have I'm setting it up this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearmum Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Does the link to the lin work?I get an error if I try it. It has been downloaded 11 times so I assume it works, but the original file is on my computer (mark sent it to me), so maybe I am loading it off my hard disk...but it seemst to work fine for me. Can someone who has managed to download it successfully say so? Worked FINE for me - and extremely instructive it was too Thanks Mark :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpace Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 Might be off topic, but how does one create such movies (like mark.lin), with the wonderful comments etc? Can we use the software we use to play in the Main Bridge Club? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 Its very nice, just a small bug, probably with no possible solution I put in hiden: sadly it said playing the heart 5 instead of the 8 on the final position was wrong, supose it doesn't allow more than 1 solution to these questions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 You are correct. When a question is given where you have to pick between cards, you can show whatever cards you want, but you can not pick two or more cards if you like. You have to tell teh program that one card is right. So from equals in the same suit, it is best to offer only one up as an option. I don't think this is a bug in the software per se, I think the author has to take into account not to show multiple equal cards. Of course, I guess it would be nice if you could accept mulitple "correct" cards from equals or near equals. Still this is not a major disappointment if you clicked the "wrong" card when both work, as you will see in the reply that it really makes no difference. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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