[blml] Amended L27C1/27C2 question

[Stefanie Rohan]

Bob Geller:

> Stefanie Rohan writes:
>>A double [1D-(1S)-X]
>>that guarantees four hearts should not, in my opinion, be called a
>>"negative double"
>
> Back in the stone ages the double was a "penalty double," showing a desire
> to defend 1Sx.   When Roth and Stone proposed a new use for the double
> in the mid-1950s the name "negative double" came to be applied to this
> usagem to differentiate it from the penalty double.   At least in the US
> (by the late 1960s) and in Japan (I don't know when, but sometime before
> I moved here in 1984) this double was more or less universally used
> to show 4+ cards in hearts, and is universally called a "negative double."

Originally, a hand with 4 hearts was just one of the hand types shown by a 
negative double. And many people still play it this way.

Stefanie Rohan