[tmgrl4]

I am a novice, so forgive me if this is somewhere else. I did a search.

I have been playing ACBL bot duplicate tourneys and doing fairly well in some of them.

However, when I get a hand that looks as we bid along like a slam hand and, I either use 4NT (Blackwood) or get 4NT (Blackwood) from GIB, which also lists suit agreed...

It bot using RCKB or regular Blackwood. I assume RCKB...and I always mess it up and go down bigtime.

Any advice or help?

Thanks!

terri

[Bbradley62]

Any time you can, you should wave the cursor over the bid you want to make, and the system will tell you how GIB will interpret your bid. Similarly, you should click on any ambiguous bid by GIB (and many that you don't even think are ambiguous) to see what he meant by his bid. There's plenty of time for this in the duplicate games, but maybe not in the race games.

[barmar]

Also, you can read GIB's convention card at http://www.bridgebas...ystem_notes.php

This has a whole section on its Blackwood bidding.

[tmgrl4]

Thank you!!

I do hover over GIB's bid, and over mine before I bid...I have the printout for GIB, but think I just don't get RCKB yet...

Thanks!

I just pulled out the printout on the GIB bidding!

terri