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- From: bpwing@phoenix.princeton.edu (Ben Wing)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Message-ID: <48193@apadravya.princeton.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 11:50:58 GMT
- Subject: Re: Another alert problem
- References: <1992Nov17.134545.11879@eua.ericsson.se> <1992Nov17.221611.3827@speedy.aero.org>
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- In article <1992Nov17.221611.3827@speedy.aero.org> (martino@courier6.aero.org(Nick Martino)) writes:
- |In article <1992Nov17.134545.11879@eua.ericsson.se>,
- |ttllarsa@eua.ericsson.se (Lars Andersson) wrote:
- |>
- |> The bidding;
- |> S W N E
- |> P 1C(1) 3C(2) D(3)
- |> P 3D P 3H
- |> 3S P 4C(!) D
- |> P 4D P P
- |> P
- |>
- |> (1) 10-17 hcp, 0-4 spades, 3-5 hearts (!)
- |> (2) agrement = preemptive with clubs, alerted and explained as 5+ spades and another
- |> 5+ suit
- |> (3) Negative double
- |>
- |> Both pairs compete at the highest national level.
- |>
- |At what game, poker? Seriously, 1C shows WHAT? And a preempt on the NORTH
- |hand (white vs red, no less)? Actually, against this unwieldy EW bidding
- |system, I can see where it would pay to preempt on just about anything.
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- I think you should probably reserve judgement rather than so quickly
- criticize a bidding system you don't understand. Lots of odd bidding
- systems may appear on the surface to be completely unmanageable but in
- practice may work out quite well.
-
- ben
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- "Can't we all just get along?"
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