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Why I Don't Like Cappeletti, etc.

#41 User is offline   masonbarge 

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Posted 2015-January-15, 14:49

View Postjogs, on 2015-January-15, 11:58, said:

Don't most players open 1 with the South hand?
The lesson is 'if LHO has 5/5 in the majors, always open 1NT with a 5 card major'.


The declarer's heart suit is irrelevant. Only two heart tricks were played.
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Posted 2015-January-15, 17:07

View Postmasonbarge, on 2015-January-15, 14:49, said:

The declarer's heart suit is irrelevant. Only two heart tricks were played.


Open 1. LHO wont be showing his 5/5 in the majors.
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Posted 2015-January-15, 19:12

View PostJinksy, on 2015-January-15, 09:42, said:

Because you're a self-righteous puritan who thinks that actively trying to upset living people is a noble calling, but breathing the name of long-dead ones is a serious crime?


So you believe that boasting on a forum about being drunk is acceptable? This also does not surprise me.
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Posted 2015-January-15, 20:42

Cappelletti gets a bad rep on these forums not because 2=both majors is unplayable, but because 2=both majors (Landy and many later conventions) is much superior: advancer can bid 2 with equal length major suit length and play in the longer major, making it safer to intervene on 5-4 shapes, and drawing less of a roadmap when they get to 3NT anyway. Cappelletti would be worth playing IMHO, if natural were the only legal alternative. Competing on major two suiters is important against a strong NT and absolutely essential against a weak NT, though it can work out badly (as can any other method: we're interested in how it does on average).

An aside: great news that Multi-Landy is apparently going to be GCC legal, assuming the BOD doesn't reject the recommendation. I would have preferred "any NT defense legal", but this would be the next best thing.
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