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jackI felt a little grotty all weekend, starting on Friday when I both had the start of a cold and was snowed under by annoying fiddly problems I couldn't face, and may have been grouchy -- sorry to everyone if so :)
OTOH, Sonicdrift's killer bunnies were fun, and we played lots of bridge on Sunday, which went quite well -- I definitely need/want more declarer practice, but Crazyscot and I seemed to do surprisingly well toward the end, with all of our crazy bidding being and leading being correctly understood by partner :)
Rolling Blackwood is where instead of artificially bidding 4NT to ask how many aces your partner has, you bid one above the agreed trump suit. So Blackwood in spades and Gerber in no-trumps would be special cases. I don't know if it's worth switching to it completely -- and I certainly need more practice at *basic* conventions -- but it feels like it would be worth it in clubs and diamonds, given the number of times we've tried to bid a slam in clubs, only to have the bidding go "1C ??? 4NT, 5D (one ace) 6C (oh shit, we don't have enough for slam, but it's too late to bid 5C)" and I don't recall urgently needing 4D for anything else once you've established clubs.
OTOH, Sonicdrift's killer bunnies were fun, and we played lots of bridge on Sunday, which went quite well -- I definitely need/want more declarer practice, but Crazyscot and I seemed to do surprisingly well toward the end, with all of our crazy bidding being and leading being correctly understood by partner :)
Rolling Blackwood is where instead of artificially bidding 4NT to ask how many aces your partner has, you bid one above the agreed trump suit. So Blackwood in spades and Gerber in no-trumps would be special cases. I don't know if it's worth switching to it completely -- and I certainly need more practice at *basic* conventions -- but it feels like it would be worth it in clubs and diamonds, given the number of times we've tried to bid a slam in clubs, only to have the bidding go "1C ??? 4NT, 5D (one ace) 6C (oh shit, we don't have enough for slam, but it's too late to bid 5C)" and I don't recall urgently needing 4D for anything else once you've established clubs.
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Date: 2007-01-22 04:59 pm (UTC)