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The card combination charts say that the best play for five tricks is to finesse the ♣Q, because you can bring in the clubs if ♣Kx is onside or the singleton ♣J is offside.
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I have three club tricks and two spade tricks, so I need to choose how I am going to play hearts. Let's assume the ♥K is onside. If the ♥K is singleton or doubleton I need to play low to the ♥T in order to get four heart tricks. If the king is third I need to run the ♥Q. If I can only get three heart tricks I will need 3-3 clubs.
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6♠+1 should score pretty well. Some declarers will draw trumps and may make only 6 and some pairs may not be in slam.
To make 7, I think you need to ruff three hearts low. On a trump lead, I would win the ♠K, ruff a heart, cash minor winners and crossruff. If you can ruff three hearts low, you will score five trumps, four minor suit winners, and four minor suit ruffs. I would not classify 7♠ as “good”.
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I don't think the BBO UI is suitable because of the small click space. But I'm sure something suitable could be created.
Instead of a tablet, maybe a computer with a nice large touch screen could be used, such as the Dell P2418HT. Then you might have a sort of tactile feel like you do with cards.
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Thank you for an interesting and thought-provoking post.
I have always assumed that the bridge-playing population would fall off the demographic cliff when the baby boom generation died off or got too old to play. This would be followed by the clubs not having enough table count to stay open and then the ACBL could not sustain itself on a much smaller playerbase and would fold.
But maybe this is not the case.
I think efforts should be made to get kids and college students interested in the game. Plant the seed, so to speak. At the same time the local clubs can market the game to recent retirees and the empty nesters. ACBL can generate incentives for the clubs by paying royalties to the club owners from sanction fees or membership fees paid by players recruited by the clubs, as Chris Compton has suggested. Nothing motivates like money. :)
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There are two kinds of people, those who have lost important data to a computer failure, and those who will.
Personally I use Carbonite, but there are lots of good products out there. A local backup is insufficient, I think. A bad power surge could take out your entire system, then you are stuck.
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We removed regular knockouts for the upcoming regional in Houston and we're going to try the Mini Soloway instead (top bracket only) It solves the scheduling problems of 9 teams entering and first round KO losers at the cost of having to play two days with the same team.
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https://www.bridgehands.com/S/Suit_Combination_4.htm
I think you want to play for five club tricks here as the hand is cold if the clubs come in.
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I will run the ♥Q at trick 2.
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To make 7, I think you need to ruff three hearts low. On a trump lead, I would win the ♠K, ruff a heart, cash minor winners and crossruff. If you can ruff three hearts low, you will score five trumps, four minor suit winners, and four minor suit ruffs. I would not classify 7♠ as “good”.
I don't think it's necessary to bid this grand.
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Instead of a tablet, maybe a computer with a nice large touch screen could be used, such as the Dell P2418HT. Then you might have a sort of tactile feel like you do with cards.
https://www.dell.com/hr/business/p/dell-p2418ht-monitor/pd
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I have always assumed that the bridge-playing population would fall off the demographic cliff when the baby boom generation died off or got too old to play. This would be followed by the clubs not having enough table count to stay open and then the ACBL could not sustain itself on a much smaller playerbase and would fold.
But maybe this is not the case.
I think efforts should be made to get kids and college students interested in the game. Plant the seed, so to speak. At the same time the local clubs can market the game to recent retirees and the empty nesters. ACBL can generate incentives for the clubs by paying royalties to the club owners from sanction fees or membership fees paid by players recruited by the clubs, as Chris Compton has suggested. Nothing motivates like money. :)
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Personally I use Carbonite, but there are lots of good products out there. A local backup is insufficient, I think. A bad power surge could take out your entire system, then you are stuck.
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Your first discard from hand should be what you want them to discard, thus a spade.
On the three diamonds, first discard a spade, then club and heart.
You have the legit major suit squeeze, 3-3 spades, or they discard a spade from four of them.
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I think it's a better way to run knockouts.