BridgeMatters

This blog provides supplementary thoughts and ideas to the www.bridgematters.com site. If you haven't seen the main site, there is a lot there including the Martel and Rodwell interviews, photos, and articles. This blog is focused on advancing bridge theory by discussing the application of new ideas. All original content is copyright 2009 Glen Ashton.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Vandy Lead

Fred Gitelman at the end of his comments about the Vandy Lite posting, suggested using BBO's handviewer program. Let's give it a try here, comparing to pictures.

You have:

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And the bidding is:

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Or, the same hand/bidding with handviewer:



What do you lead?

I would like to mention some nice people I know that finished first in their ACBL categories given in the April ACBL bulletin: Heather Peckett, Michael Myers, Claire Zeitoun, and Allan Graves. Nice can finish first! - the other players who finished first may also be nice, I just don't know them personally (e.g. Gavin Wolpert is a great guy, but doesn't update his blog enough for me to be aware of the latest about him).

Also in the April bulletin, Karen Walker continues a terrific new series, "Improve your opening leads", and Jon Shuster writes about Transfers opposite overcalls (TOO - opposite partner's overcall "all bids except for raises, spade bids and 3NT are transfers" including double and redouble).

On the hand above, did you find the lead Alan Sontag made?

Here is the full hand:


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If you lead anything but a diamond, 3NT can be made with a club finesse. A diamond lead resulted in down 7!

If you are using TOO, perhaps the West hand could double as a transfer to diamonds, but then does North still bid 3NT?

I tried to embedded the handviewer version of the hand, but the blogger software converted all the (straight line character) in the lin format to nothing, and I can't even link to anything with that character in it. Here's an attempt to link to handviewer without going back to blogger "Compose mode":

Link to handviewer

Now without going back to compose mode, here is the handviewer version:



This seems fine except I have to edit completely with html, which is [not pleasant].

1 Comments:

  • At 6:12 AM, Anonymous Fred Gitelman said…

    Thanks for trying it, Glen :)

    I have no idea how the blog-authoring software works, but maybe it would be easier for you if you could work with something like this to insert a Handviewer "movie":

    http://tinyurl.com/cr86be

    The BBO web-client has contains a graphical authoring tool that makes it relatively easy to create a tinyurl link like the one above. It also allows you to export any hand played on BBO to a link like this.

    Let me know if you want details as to how this works.

    Fred Gitelman

     

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