Bridge Winners comments by Jordan Lampe

Andy Caranicas's bidding problem: QJ9 K52 AK7652 K

Jordan Lampe

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I'm not sure I understand what “2♥=Support” means. You mean your X showed 3 card support? or 2♥ showed diamond support? Or what?

Feb. 16, 2017

What would emerge?

Jordan Lampe

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@Neal: in the problem they are studying (bidding without competition) there's no need for weak opening bids.

Feb. 8, 2017

What would emerge?

Jordan Lampe

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We don't have to speculate, someone has already done it: check table 7 in https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03290 . It looks fairly random and inefficient use of bidding space, although it seems to have stumbled into transfer openings.

Feb. 7, 2017

David Parsons's bidding problem: AJT8 A42 2 AJ732

Jordan Lampe

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Could LHO be psyching?

Feb. 2, 2017

John Moschella's bidding problem: AKJTx Axxx Kxx x

Jordan Lampe

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I don't know how hard it is to put in a few specific cards. Apparently it was too hard for the OP.

Feb. 1, 2017

John Moschella's bidding problem: AKJTx Axxx Kxx x

Jordan Lampe

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My rule is that x's can never win a trick unless everyone else is out.

Jan. 31, 2017

Rohit Gupta's bidding problem: AK3 AKT5 A AK876

Jordan Lampe

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So partner has something like Qxx or QJx of spades and probably a diamond card, and it looks like 9 tricks will be easy and 12 nearly impossible.

Jan. 31, 2017

Rohit Gupta's bidding problem: AK3 AKT5 A AK876

Jordan Lampe

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How does Responder show a double negative in your system?

Jan. 31, 2017

Richard Fleet's bidding problem: --- T2 9872 AJT9542

Jordan Lampe

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When I was but a young beginner, I was taught that with 6-9 points, insufficient support to raise Opener's suit, but no suit to bid at the 1 level, that I was supposed to bid 1NT.

Jan. 30, 2017

Gregory Nowak's bidding problem: QT6 AQ2 AJ8753 J

Jordan Lampe

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If 2♦ is “not GF” and 2NT shows stoppers in the majors, shouldn't 3♦ be NF showing a 10-12 minimum without a club stopper? I grant the club stopper is looking dodgy, especially after partner has wrong-sided NT for us, but I don't see how that hand is anything like a minimum.

Jan. 27, 2017

Rowland Reeves's bidding problem: A4 J732 AKQ84 94

Jordan Lampe

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What do you bid after the inevitable 1♠?

Jan. 26, 2017

Sweden's system regulations

Jordan Lampe

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I don't understand one of the bullet points: “If the opening bid is 1♥ or 1♠, it gets one extra dot.” Doesn't that mean any system at all gets 2 dots to start with?

Jan. 26, 2017

Whining about a club director (again)

Jordan Lampe

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If 3♠ is ‘top of the range’ then presumably 3♦ or 3♥ can show bottom and middle. Why you would play this way is unclear, but one certainly could play that way.

Jan. 25, 2017

What does this double mean?

Jordan Lampe

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http://www.bridgebum.com/responsive_double.php

Jan. 18, 2017

Takeout Double ATB

Jordan Lampe

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Why not? Doesn't East have a 4 loser hand needing only a couple of cards in West's hand to make slam?

Jan. 17, 2017

Takeout Double ATB

Jordan Lampe

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Aren't the people bidding 3♠ over 1♠ directly worried about missing a good slam?

Jan. 17, 2017

Phyllis Yates's bidding problem: AJxx AQ9x Kx xxx

Jordan Lampe

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If 2NT is my “slow down” bid, that's my choice. If Partner bids 3♣ (showing not quite a jump shift), then I settle for game in 3NT. If Partner bids 3NT or something else that says he wants to be in game opposite my 6 count, then I try for slam.

Jan. 17, 2017

Jakob Kristinsson's bidding problem: QT3 T854 Q QJ862

Jordan Lampe

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No, but an X does promise both majors, and I only have one of them.

Jan. 17, 2017

Can Google's DeepMind beat the BBO Robots in 2017

Jordan Lampe

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And the computer program that can ask intelligent questions and make inferences from non-standard conventions (3♣ opening showing ♦ or ♥+♠ anyone?) is even harder.

Jan. 13, 2017

Free Drew Casen & Friends (or not)

Jordan Lampe

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So the definition of “natural bid” is the director goes around and takes a poll of players' opinions, just like in UI cases?

Jan. 7, 2017

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