Help
Perhaps you could say: "to play, ambiguous: high card or shape based".
Explaining 1M - 4M
#41
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 14,900
- Joined: 2004-May-11
- Gender:Male
- Location:Portugal
- Interests:Everything!
Posted 2006-July-25, 06:08
#42
- Limit bidder
-
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 8,483
- Joined: 2004-November-02
- Gender:Female
- Location:England
- Interests:Bridge, classical music, skiing... but I spend more time earning a living than doing any of those
Posted 2006-July-25, 06:46
awm, on Jul 25 2006, 05:15 AM, said:
The director stated that the correct explanation was "no agreement" without any further elaboration. I found it somewhat unbelievable that this pair (a married couple who had been playing together for many years and accumulated many masterpoints) could feasibly have "no agreement" about a simple two-level jump overcall in a national championship event... but that's what the director said.
Well, I found it suprising over the weekend the extent of the sequences in which Nickell/Freeman seem to have "no agreement".
#43
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 11,277
- Joined: 2004-September-22
- Location:Northern Maryland
Posted 2006-July-25, 08:03
FrancesHinden, on Jul 25 2006, 07:46 AM, said:
awm, on Jul 25 2006, 05:15 AM, said:
The director stated that the correct explanation was "no agreement" without any further elaboration. I found it somewhat unbelievable that this pair (a married couple who had been playing together for many years and accumulated many masterpoints) could feasibly have "no agreement" about a simple two-level jump overcall in a national championship event... but that's what the director said.
Well, I found it suprising over the weekend the extent of the sequences in which Nickell/Freeman seem to have "no agreement".
I often am at least a little suspicious of "no agreement". There are degees of understanding. However, in support of the possibility that it may be so, here is a recent example from my own play:
RHO opened a big club, I bid 1H, LHO passed, partner bid 2C. Hmm. We are a regular partnership and no doubt we should have discussed this but we hadn't. Over a "normal" 1C opening partner's 2C would either be heart support and invitational values (or more) or else a very good hand which he will describe further later. Over a totally artificial club it seems there is good reason to believe it shows clubs. I did not alert, they did not ask. The auction staggered through to some successful end, I was declarer and told the opponents I was not sure of the 2C. They let it be and we managed to play the hand without needing a director. Had they asked, I would have said just what I have said above.
I had decided that it probably did not show clubs, and I guessed right. I think it probably should show clubs, I just guessed that it did not.
Ken
Ken