If bidding 3 Nt over 3H is modern style it is beyond me. Pass over 3H is clear and partner will balance with 3S as he is not a basic bbo robot and which is where we belong as he ĥas not chosen to double. When EW make aggressive prempts they should perhaps lead 4thbest of their strongest which is opposite defending style of their bidding style.
Best regards
Shantanu Rastogi
bobbywolffJune 16th, 2023 at 1:19 pm
Hi Shantanu,
Thanks for piping up with thought provoking bridge attitudes, which reach out to fairly common lead situations fairly often enough, held. Whether others agree or disagree, at least you have brought it in focus, thus, to be discussed, (always in style) instead of never to be bantered about.
It appears that today’s hand will not even present, in the absence of presuming different types of overall distributions, both on offense and also defense, a quantified successful conclusion, but in that way both sides of the squabble can claim victory, in the way they think.
However, your opinion about whether South should or should not immediately enter the bidding may possibly dwarf the other more theoretical discussion, at least, to the correct decision.. In any event, call it grist for the mill, an expression to be used often, when discussing our great game.
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Iain ClimieJune 16th, 2023 at 2:28 pm
Hi Shantanu,
There is a school of though that says that the hand after the pre-empt should assume his partner has something and that his partner should proceed on that assumption e.g. around 8-10 points. So here South’s bid is pushy but worth a go and North doesn’t assume South has a balanced 23 count! Needless to say, there are times when that assumption falls flat on its nose with very painful consequences!
Regards,
Iain
Robert LiptonJune 16th, 2023 at 2:39 pm
Good morning, Shantanu. I’ll go even further: North passes too. Half club lead, spade shift. Down 2, perhaps down if East doesn’t play perfectly. You don’t have to make ‘psychological’ plays.
I’ve never cottoned to the Roth-Stone system, but I do agree that Bridge is a partnership game. ‘Psychological’ plays work best when the opponents think each other is nuts.
Bob Lipton
bobbywolffJune 16th, 2023 at 9:25 pm
Hi Bob,
Nothing should contradict your last sentence opted to suggest that all (rather than just psychological plays) work best, when the opponents think each other, are nuts.
A second coordinated thought might be “so play well and allow your opponents to sleep
in the streets”.
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Hello Bobby Sir
If bidding 3 Nt over 3H is modern style it is beyond me. Pass over 3H is clear and partner will balance with 3S as he is not a basic bbo robot and which is where we belong as he ĥas not chosen to double. When EW make aggressive prempts they should perhaps lead 4thbest of their strongest which is opposite defending style of their bidding style.
Best regards
Shantanu Rastogi
Hi Shantanu,
Thanks for piping up with thought provoking bridge attitudes, which reach out to fairly common lead situations fairly often enough, held. Whether others agree or disagree, at least you have brought it in focus, thus, to be discussed, (always in style) instead of never to be bantered about.
It appears that today’s hand will not even present, in the absence of presuming different types of overall distributions, both on offense and also defense, a quantified successful conclusion, but in that way both sides of the squabble can claim victory, in the way they think.
However, your opinion about whether South should or should not immediately enter the bidding may possibly dwarf the other more theoretical discussion, at least, to the correct decision.. In any event, call it grist for the mill, an expression to be used often, when discussing our great game.
.
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Hi Shantanu,
There is a school of though that says that the hand after the pre-empt should assume his partner has something and that his partner should proceed on that assumption e.g. around 8-10 points. So here South’s bid is pushy but worth a go and North doesn’t assume South has a balanced 23 count! Needless to say, there are times when that assumption falls flat on its nose with very painful consequences!
Regards,
Iain
Good morning, Shantanu. I’ll go even further: North passes too. Half club lead, spade shift. Down 2, perhaps down if East doesn’t play perfectly. You don’t have to make ‘psychological’ plays.
I’ve never cottoned to the Roth-Stone system, but I do agree that Bridge is a partnership game. ‘Psychological’ plays work best when the opponents think each other is nuts.
Bob Lipton
Hi Bob,
Nothing should contradict your last sentence opted to suggest that all (rather than just psychological plays) work best, when the opponents think each other, are nuts.
A second coordinated thought might be “so play well and allow your opponents to sleep
in the streets”.