[blml] Rueful Rabbit [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Robert Geller]

This shouldn't be a problem.  It's just
like raising a weak 2 bid to 3, or a precision
2C to 3C, as a purely competitive bid.
Everyone knows what that means and isn't
this just the same sort of thing?
-Bob 

Jerry Fusselman さんは書きました:
>On 10/2/07, richard.hills at immi.gov.au <richard.hills at immi.gov.au> wrote:
>>
>> Jerry Fusselman asked:
>>
>> >How many clubs, and what distribution, does
>> >3C show?
>>
>> Richard Hills asks:
>>
>> Is the concept "aces are meant to beat kings"
>> included in the Law 75C caveat of "general
>> knowledge and experience"?
>>
>> Likewise, are the concepts "when in doubt, bid
>> one more" and "competing for the partscore"
>> also general knowledge and experience?
>>
>> Surely it is general knowledge and experience
>> that North's "distribution" might be that a
>> doubleton club is North's shortness, since
>> scattered values and a 6-2 club fit is enough
>> to compete to the three level at imps, if one
>> hopes to score +110 in 3C or +100 defending 3S.
>>
>
>Anyone else find this a snooty answer?  Richard, would you give this
>kind of answer at the table to someone who might totally unfamiliar
>with these methods?
>
>All right, since you said very little, what would 2NT, 3D, 3H, 4C,
>double, and pass have shown?  How should I know what kinds of hands
>would not bid 3C if you don't tell me?   Actually, it took me a while
>to see that 3C was intended as natural---it might have been totally
>artificial, as I imagined was possible at first, if your bidding
>system over interference was poor.
>
>When someone is totally unfamiliar with your methods, do you really
>want to give a truth-economist answer with a bonus two-paragraph legal
>preamble?
>
>Besides, the methods don't make much sense to me.  You don't care
>about voids and lots of extra clubs when opening 2C?  Seems to me that
>your possible range of strength of the hand is so great (if the
>statement describing 2C is complete) that there is a possibility that
>some information has not been disclosed.  For example, what would it
>take for a hand that fits your description of 2C to be too good and
>therefore be opened 1C?
>
>Regards,
>Jerry Fusselman
>
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