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Have you ever played strong club? Did the auction fragment 1♣-(P)-1♦-(3♠) ever come up?
If not, I can see why it wouldn't be clear to you...
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At least when 1
♣ - pass - something above 1
♦ - 3
♠ comes up I have forcing pass/dbl here to deal with which I don't have after non game forcing response.
I am not saying classical approach is better, I am saying it's not clear at all which is better.
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Pleas prove why a more traditional response structure -
1♥+ = GF
1♦ = semi positive or negative
would be better after a MOSCITO style strong club opening.
I don't know how to respond to you because you didn't even address anything I wrote. You just made up some assumptions (like me saying classical is better than Moscito) and then you flamed me.
I can however say why I commented on quoted text.
There was many tries to improve bridge bidding systems. I am from Poland so I am familiar with all forcing pass movement which brought many new ideas to bidding theory (particularly alternative meanings of various bids and many relay/slam bidding schemes). It was common for the authors of those system to give arguments like:
a)Hands from 8-12 range comes up most often
b)You have to open as much as possible
a + b -->> Most of your openings should be reserved for hands from 8-12 range.
This of course is shitty logic because it's not clear at all if:
-opening as much as possible is indeed profitable
-opening as much as possible with hands from 8-12 range is equally important as opening with descriptive bids with hands from 13+range, so even if you indeed open more often, you may not compensate for not opening with desriptive bids with stonger hands (even if they are less frequent).
Back to quote text about Moscito. Author used very similar arguments:
Some hands come up more often -->> more responses should be assigned to them. This "makes sense" for layman (ie. someone not good at thinking about math/bridge theory). This is however very bad argument because:
a)It may be that it's very important to establish game force as soon as possible (in case of opponents bidding)
b)argument about frequencies is completely pointless as it may be true that game forcing hands are less frequent than 0-7ones but there isn't much more bidding space in all reponses above 1
♦ than in 1
♦ itself (it depends how you define bidding space but it's either about equal or quite close anyway)'
c)it may be the case that it's important that strong hand can make descriptive bid at possible low level opposite weak hand in uncontested bidding. (maybe because it's important that weak hand should know asap which information is important to strong hand).
d)it may be the case that making descriptive bid with 8+hcp hands is much more profitable than losing descriptive bids with hands from 5-7hcp range (and there is no way these days to prove it one way or the other).
My point is it's not clear. Writing stuff like quoted text is just gibberish which is aimed at convincing people who aren't good at thinking about those things. I don't like when someone is doing this in any area of life. That's why I commented on this.