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This hand nags on GIB's sanity

#1 User is offline   mgoetze 

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Posted 2012-January-23, 13:59



Or, as a player at the German Trials last weekend put it: "I doubled for penalties and my lousy partner only had 3 tricks, sheesh!"

Other humans did not quite consider their diamonds "rebiddable" and got



Nice try, partner...
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Posted 2012-January-23, 18:35

Lots of Laughs.

In the 1960's we had the rise of the Sputnik or negative double.

One beginner at Harrow Bridge club in London in the early 1970's was heard asking her (equally beginner) partner "What's so negative about the negative double?"

Now we have the constructive double - so called as it helps construct a big winning score for the opponents!
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