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- Subject: Re: bidding judgment
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.145756.4581@ramon.bgu.ac.il>
- From: avir@chen.bgu.ac.il (Avi Roy Shapira)
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:57:56 GMT
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- kibler@turing.ICS.UCI.EDU (Dennis Kibler) writes:
- : I agree with Bob Silverman that most of my
- : bidding problems are do to a lack of bidding
- : judgment and ability to evaluate a hand (pair of hands)
- : properly. However I was using this very fact to argue with
- : my partner to adopt a non-standard bidding system.
- : Briefly I thought by seeing how a radically different
- : system would evaluate hands that that might improve
- : our bidding judgment.
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- Go right ahead. It will improve your bidding judgement. Don't change
- to Precision however, since the basic structure is similar to 2/1.
- (except for the specialty bids and the 13-15 NT).
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- I would recommend Blue Team Club. Easy enough to learn, and practically
- forces you to improve judgement. However, Acol, while not radically different
- from SA, is also way to obtain a different view and develop judgement.
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- This is true, provided you spend enough time studying the meaning of Acol,
- particularly difficult for SA players to get are the mini-opening bids,
- and the use of Swiss rather than splinter. If you just assume Acol is
- a variation of SA, don't bother. A good source for Acol is Reese and Dormer:
- The Acol System Today. (Today is a bit of an anachronism, the book is
- at least 20 years in print)
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- Avi
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- Aviel Roy-Shapira, M.D. Ben-Gurion University Medical School
- Dept. of Surgery A. POB 151, Beer Sheva, Israel
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