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- From: daveshao@leland.stanford.edu (David Shao)
- Subject: Re: Freak hand. YBTJ
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.011624.20789@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- References: <1dukuaINN7cq@leo.asc.slb.com> <1992Nov13.082058.13337@eua.ericsson.se> <6220@tivoli.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 01:16:24 GMT
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- In article <6220@tivoli.UUCP> taylor@foraker.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Eric Taylor) writes:
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- >When you jump shift, you should have a 4 card fit for partner
- >AND/OR a suit that can play well opposite a void.
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- Depending on one's system this is a correct statement. However, if
- one is merely trying to clarify agreements within the framework of
- Standard American, there seems to be alternative requirements that
- one can impose on the strong jump shift for which others have made
- good arguments. I am thinking in particular of Truscott and Alder's
- updated version of Morehead's On Bidding where the authors devote
- an entire chapter arguing for different requirements for a strong jump
- shift. To quote:
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- "There is no good reason to debate the subject any longer because a
- forcing jump shift so seldom occurs: no one has a good enough hand
- to make one anymore.
- ...it is still true that European players make jump
- responses on all hands that seem likely to go to game, and when they
- do so they often disgrace their American opponents...
- From the meetings between teams from the United States and
- Europe in international competition during the 1960s, most of which
- ended disastrously for the Americans, it is possible to pick out
- at least five cases in which European use of the more liberal jump
- response resulted in a serious loss to the Americans, and no case in
- which American use of the minimum response can be held to have
- given them an advantage over the Europeans. And there would have
- been a sixth except that on one occasion Terence Reese dropped
- the ace of hearts on the floor...
- Most bridge players, including American experts, used to do exactly
- the opposite of what is right. They would make the game-forcing
- jump response only on hands strong in playing strength; they would
- make minimum responses (or occasionally jump notrump responses)
- on hands with little to recommend them except their high-card
- content. They demanded strong support for partner's suit, or a
- solid suit of their own, before they would make the jump response."
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