Berry Westra's Fit Points

[BonzoDogge]

While playing on Jack I noticed the programme re-evaluates hands using " Fit Points " as taught by Berry Westra. Does anybody know exactly how they work ? It'd be nice to know the reasoning behind some of Jack's bidding.

[Trinidad]

Hi!

 

You can adjust the fit points in Jack. This is explained in section 16.5 of the help file.

 

When you make a convention card, you go through various dialogue boxes. In the first dialogue box, where you define your basic system, there is a tick box for "fit points". Next to this tick box there is a button to edit the fit points table. So you can adjust the fit points the way you like them.

 

There are a few predefined fit point methods, such as 1/3/5 for shortness and Berry Westra's method. If you click on the "Berry" button, you can see how it works:

 

Shortness:

Doubleton: +1

Singleton: +2

Void: +3

 

It subtracts for short honors:

A: 0

K: -2

Q: -2

J: -1

 

QJ: -1

Qx: -1

Jx: -1

 

For extra trumps:

9: +1

10: +1

11: +1

 

You can change all these values and set them to your own preferences.

 

I hope this helped.

 

Rik

[BonzoDogge]

Brilliant ! :)

 

Many thanks Rik.