1eyedjack Posted February 8, 2014 Report Share Posted February 8, 2014 Just curious. Are you the same Dick Payne who co-authored TNT and Competitive Bidding with Joe Amsbury? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dick payne Posted February 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 Just curious. Are you the same Dick Payne who co-authored TNT and Competitive Bidding with Joe Amsbury?Yes, but co author would not be an accurate description. The manuscript was mine and he lent his name for half the profit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 Yes, but co author would not be an accurate description. The manuscript was mine and he lent his name for half the profitAh, the days before self-publishing was possible on the net. Do you reckon that your half share was less than it would have been without his name? Or would it have never seen the light of day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dick payne Posted February 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 Ah, the days before self-publishing was possible on the net. Do you reckon that your half share was less than it would have been without his name? Or would it have never seen the light of day?You are so right, it would never have seen the light of day. How do you go about self publishing on the net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 You are so right, it would never have seen the light of day. How do you go about self publishing on the netI have never tried to do it myself. I expect that there are readers of this forum who have.Our office has one or two clients who do it, using some sort of standard contract with Amazon.Someone I read about in The Week (I think) is really prolific, but it only really took off for him when he offered one or two books for free, to spread his name about. I wouldn't expect that technique to be massively successful when talking about specialist bridge books. Anyway, Google is your friend - more so than I on this subject. Loads of guides out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 dick payne, have a look here http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/63078-best-variant-for-simple-strong-pass-system/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dick payne Posted February 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 Over the years keen rivals have tried all sorts of defence to VFP in the hope of proving it unviable. For several years one pair have been playing a variable pass over our variable pass in the hope of catching us bidding on nothing. This had never happened, or at least it hadn't happened until last MondayBoard 11 Love all Dealer southSouth J1072 / K1063 / 64 / J32West A96 / A87 / AK107 / A64North Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dick payne Posted February 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 North K643 / J52 / 532 / Q109East Q5 / Q94 / QJ98 /K875 The bidding was W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dick payne Posted February 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 North K643 / J52 / 532 / Q109East Q5 / Q94 / QJ98 /K875 The bidding was W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dick payne Posted February 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 W N E S Pass Pass! 1C Pass 1D Dble Pass Pass Rdble Pass 1S Pass Pass Dble West had waited a long time for this. It went two down for 300. Perhaps all it proves is that is fallacious to try and penalise the opponents at the one level when the have all the one level to choose from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted February 21, 2014 Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 Please go back to quoting other peoples’ posts without comment:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dake50 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 I think you start from the wrong place. Start with what will be in the VFP, eg. bal 17-20 (rebids dbl/cheap NT), 5 losers with 5 spades (rebids 1+S), 18+ S+2nd (rebids 2nd), ..without spades or bal <17 bid now! Minors start 2m, 1m if also 4+H. My jist being get one-message hands in the auction directly. VFP has expected cases to rebid - those that didn't start with another strong opener.This should go far in untangling [1-suiter, 2-suiter, 3-suiter, bal] cases by strength: {9-12, 13-16, 17-19, 20+} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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