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Roman Spade? Or did you mean Roman Club?

 

 

I played Roman Club for about a year in the 1980s.

 

 

As a Blue Team Club player, I did not find it very hard to learn.

 

It was fun to play.

 

 

The occasional 3 card major opening led to some unwanted 4-3 contracts so I 'modified' it to have 1M promise 4+.

 

 

 

Google REGRESsion if you want complex. It is also the most accurate system I have seen.

 

 

I bid difficult hands against the owner of the site for about a year.

 

 

 

My version of Precision worked well, however, his results were near perfect.

 

 

I added improved methods to my system. It did not matter,

 

my goal became to try and match his results.

 

 

I learned a lot that year about bridge.

 

He showed me improved ways to use steps when bidding.

 

 

For a better known system Ultimate Club is the second best for obtaining great results.

 

 

It still has the record for 13 wins in a row in the Bridge World magazine bidding contest.

 

 

They only sold 3,000 copies of the system and I own two copies

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Personaly i believe the Roman Spade

I thought I invented the Roman Spade (based on Roman Club) a few years ago.

 

Roman Spade:

 

1 = 11-13 BAL OR "10-21", 4+ D, unBAL, real canapé (=> 1 = 4+ H; 1 = 4+ S, 1 = GF relay)

1 = "10-21", 4+ S, unBAL, real canapé (=> 1 = Herbert; 1N = GF relay)

1 = "10-21", 4+ H, unBAL, real canapé (=> 1 = Herbert; 1N = GF relay)

1 = 17-19 BAL OR "16-21", 4+ C, unBAL real canapé OR very strong

...1N = to play opposite 17-19 BAL

......P = 17-19 BAL

......2 = "16-21", 4+ C, unBAL, real canapé (=> 2 = F1 relay)

......2+ = very strong

...2+: didn't get this far

1N = 14-16 BAL

2 = "10-15", 4+ C, real canapé (=> 2 = F1 relay)

2+ = whatever, just not Roman

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Although the Little Major system has a fairly intimidating reputation for being extremely difficult to handle, the hardest to learn would probably be one of the forcing pass methods. One I remember had an extremely strange way of grouping hands that took several calls to unwind.

 

In terms of information exchange, there is I think little doubt that a forcing pass relay system offers the most potential. I doubt Roman Club (or spade!) is even in the same ballpark. Of non-FP methods, IMPrecision has arguably the strongest reputation on this site so I would suggest looking into that. There are also several other unusual systems played here, many of which I would expect to score much more highly than Roman in terms of information exchange.

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