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- From: boyiny@noether.mit.edu (Professor Who?)
- Subject: Big Club Systems are Harder
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.114139.14558@galois.mit.edu>
- Summary: Intervention makes it complicated.
- Keywords: bidding, play, defense.
- Sender: news@galois.mit.edu
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- Organization: Ayatollah's Correct Bidding Lessons
- References: <1993Jan15.124939.14719@linus.mitre.org> <1993Jan17.164134.25438@galois.mit.edu> <1220@kopasker.is>
- X-Subliminal-Message: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Club!
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 11:41:39 GMT
- Old_subject: Re: Big Club-Not Precision
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- brl@kopasker.is (Bjorgvin Runar Leifsson) writes:
- >Professor Who? writes:
- >>[Bob S.:]
- >>>Expecting that mediocre players are going to improve their game by
- >>>switching to a more difficult bidding system is laughable.
- >>Perhaps not, but I would expect any pair to show a profit by switching
- >>to a substantially better/more-thought-out system, providing that
- >>there is no memory overload-- no?
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- >Agree and furthermore: Do strong club systems need to be more difficult than
- >natural systems, like those played in North-America? The blue club is not so
- >complicated and there is a booklet called simplified Precision, which proposes
- >a strong club system, which is so simple that even beginners can use it
- >without more than usual beginner difficulties. And on the other hand, there
- >are many variations on Standard American, which are at least as difficult as
- >standard Precision.
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- To show that I am not really trying to vendetta Bob, I should insert my
- NT$0.5 (note, the current exchange rate is about 1:25) here:
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- Strong club systems _NEED_ to be more difficult than "natural" systems, in
- the sense that more discussion and theory work is needed to make it
- workable in the "everyday" sense--- not Bob's interesting Aces Points vs.
- Neapolitan Controls problem, IMHO (few people really use the Aces/Schenken
- points) but in the sense of dealing with various modes of intervention and
- the strategic and tactical problems posed by nebulous diamonds or
- space-consuming 2C openings, if you use a 5-card major model.
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- The Blue Team Club really is a good system requiring rather little in the
- way of excess memorisation and I recommend BTC for those who is learning it
- as an experience..... but only if you are open-minded about concepts of
- bidding, of course.
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