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Berry Westra's Fit Points How do they work ?

#1 User is offline   BonzoDogge 

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Posted 2014-July-02, 16:51

While playing on Jack I noticed the programme re-evaluates hands using " Fit Points " as taught by Berry Westra. Does anybody know exactly how they work ? It'd be nice to know the reasoning behind some of Jack's bidding.
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Posted 2014-July-02, 23:57

Hi!

You can adjust the fit points in Jack. This is explained in section 16.5 of the help file.

When you make a convention card, you go through various dialogue boxes. In the first dialogue box, where you define your basic system, there is a tick box for "fit points". Next to this tick box there is a button to edit the fit points table. So you can adjust the fit points the way you like them.

There are a few predefined fit point methods, such as 1/3/5 for shortness and Berry Westra's method. If you click on the "Berry" button, you can see how it works:

Shortness:
Doubleton: +1
Singleton: +2
Void: +3

It subtracts for short honors:
A: 0
K: -2
Q: -2
J: -1

QJ: -1
Qx: -1
Jx: -1

For extra trumps:
9: +1
10: +1
11: +1

You can change all these values and set them to your own preferences.

I hope this helped.

Rik
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Posted 2014-July-03, 05:09

Brilliant ! :)

Many thanks Rik.
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