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- From: varvel@cs.utexas.edu (Donald A. Varvel)
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- Subject: Re: What is so terrible about doubling offshape?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:36:18 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- In article <1jplhnINNprt@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> shamrake@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Danil Suits) writes:
-
- [Concerning what to bid over a 3rd-hand opening holding 4-4-1-4,
- 19 HCP, including a stiff DK]
-
- >What I'd really like to see here is a discussion of what is
- >in literature. No offense intended Bob, but I don't trust
- >Boyin's experiences either. Don Varvel is the usual net.librarian;
- >can you dig out some answers for us?
-
- In a word, no.
-
- Kaplan says in his increasingly misnamed _Competitive Bidding in
- Modern Bridge_, "So do not reopen with a balanced hand of seven
- points or fewer. This has a corollary: partner must not "trap"
- with 18 points or more ..." Note that Kaplan reopens 1NT with
- a balanced 8-10 HCP, doubling with more. This is *far* from being
- usual expert practice. I think most experts would pass with most
- of those hands. So passing with this strong a hand is taking
- quite a position. Kaplan's usual range for a 1NT overcall is
- 17-19 (!), so I suspect he would overcall 1NT on the present hand.
- I suspect Bergen wouldn't, but I have no idea what he *would* bid.
-
- In general, authors tell you what the requirements are for each
- call and say nothing about the hands that don't meet any of the
- requirements.
-
- Perhaps somebody who has Lawrence on overcalls will do some digging.
- That's one I *don't* have.
-
- -- Don Varvel (varvel@cs.utexas.edu)
-