[csdenmark]

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Weishel Sontag had their Power Preciscion late 70's and Ron Anderson and Hugh Mclean played their version of preciscion

Yes for a short period Weischel/Sontag were members of Dallas Aces.

Ron Andersons many books are nearly all co-authored by Charles/Kathy Wei.

[Winstonm]

I actually used to play the Culbertson 4NT-5NT convention in association with first and second round cue bids and found it highly beneficial.

[skjaeran]

Winstonm, on Aug 14 2008, 02:02 AM, said:

I actually used to play the Culbertson 4NT-5NT convention in association with first and second round cue bids and found it highly beneficial.

So did I for five years (1984-89). In a strong club system. We modified the 4-5NT convention. We did very well in slam auctions.

[OleBerg]

Winstonm, on Aug 14 2008, 02:02 AM, said:

I actually used to play the Culbertson 4NT-5NT convention in association with first and second round cue bids and found it highly beneficial.

15 years ago it had quite a following in Denmark. Now only a small minority of top-level players use it. (And a few below top-level.)

In an uncontested auction, any well organized system will do fine with ordinary RKC. It's when the auction becomes highly competitive, that the idée shows its worth, as you can use the 5-level to check both aces and controls.

The convention can be improved by Streamlining it, switching the meaning of 4nt and the bid directly above 4 in the agreed trumphsuit. If you adopt this, be prepared for some silly mistakes during practice. (And a lot of practice.)

[bill1157]

mikeh, on Aug 13 2008, 03:59 PM, said:

A lot of Roth's ideas failed to catch on. ... He also advocated a forcing single raise of a major suit opening... perhaps the rationale for the forcing 1N response, since lesser hands couldn't raise immediately. And his requirements for 'free bids' by responder after an overcall (lots of strength) found few adherents.. but were the genesis behind the negative double, because he realized that passing hands with 6 or 7 points was losing bridge but he wanted a 'free bid' to remain strong.

I played a single raise of the major as forcing some years ago and it worked very well. I have always hated the Jacoby 2NT, and found it doesn't come up too often anyway.

Also, reverse the meaning of the negative X/free bids (ie.free bid 9-11 pts, make a neg X with more) and it works a whole lot better.

Bill