[blml] Amended L27C1/27C2 question

[Stefanie Rohan]

>>Bob Geller
>>
>>
>>> Stefanie Rohan writes:
>>>>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.
>>>
>>> This may be true in the UK, but  from almost the very onset a
>>> negative double of 1S showed 4+ hearts in the US.
>>>
>>Not by Roth and Stone."
>
>
> I know.  That's why I wrote "from almost the very onset" rather than
> "from the very onset."   The original R-S idea (in their book
> "Bridge is a partnership game" and also magazine aarticles) was different 
> but
> it never really got any traction in the U.S.  Their idea of using the dbl 
> for
> takeout did catch on quickly though, with (at least in the US, Norway and
> Japan) the "neg x" at the one level showing 4 (if unbid is spades) or
> 4+ (if hearts) in the unbid maj.
>
I am not concerned with what people play, but I am a bit annoyed at the new 
EBU regulations. Double of a suit bid is takeout, but a double that 
guarantees length in a particular suit is not really "takeout". But these 
doubles are also not alerted.

Stefanie Rohan
London, England