Bridge Winners Profile for Chris Ryall
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Jan. 8
- Last Seen
- 3 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
UK life master but mainly play occasional weekend events now.
Site links
The Weak 2 Archive http://chrisryall.net/bridge/weak.two
Thoughts on 1NT at pairs https://chrisryall.net/bridge/1nt-complex.htm
Notes on UK "Acol" https://chrisryall.net/bridge/acol/index.htm
- Country
- United Kingdom
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Baring a king trick 5 against John Collins, UK's best card player in the 1990s. At trick 12 John looked me up and down, decided "he's not up to it", … and finessed :))
- Bridge Accomplishments
- North England pairs winner, county champion. UK mixed pairs representative player
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Trevor Hails
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Online / tournaments only
- BBO Username
- Tomcat on Bridgeplayer.com
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- Forcing Pass or not?
- Has this auction ... actually happened?
- Competing against mini-NT
- My knowledge of point variance came from simulations when deciding to OPEN mini NT, Steve. In simple terms 'even' is more common than 'uneven'. The commonest 1NT to open is 9-11. 12-14 is a tad over half as common. 15-17 about 55% of that ... It is the same defending. My ...
- 1NT-P-3NT-X
- Lead a spade. I've done this once.
- Competing against mini-NT
- How do you penalise with eg 12 opposite 11, Steve? That is generally better than eg 15 opposite 8 as it's harder for declarer to place the card, often defends for a trick better ! The 12-11 distributions of our 23 (here) points are also more [u]common[/u].
- Competing against mini-NT
- As per Kit above - don't complicate your defence further, you might make it a tad lighter however. It's more about the "application". Opps playing in [b]1NT, nv, undoubled[/b] is nearly always a good pairs score for them - you should strain to swing the axe whenever you ...
- Can We Ever Play in Clubs
- Ditto hand 2: with "Normal" weak 2's but playing 5cM ♠ but 4cM ♥ 'semi natural' method (not uncommon in UK, used by eg me) 1♥ - 1♠ 2♣ - 3♣ I have not found rebidding 1NT with x on partner's suit very helpful, but others ...
- Can We Ever Play in Clubs
- Hand 2 (displays here for some reason) … play Dutch style weak 2's 5cm and 4+ minor (very popular in UK too) 2♠ - 3♣ "pass/correct" end of auction in view of the spade misfit
- Perfect GSF Hand
- wrt the "5♥" I share Frances's implication that it can be a dangerous beast, something needing clear discussion. My own experience, 3+ years into my present partnership was that my own 5♥ in a competitive auction meaning "I have 2 losers in their suit, otherwise impregnible" was ...
- Perfect GSF Hand
- I find any 1♥ reply a bit weird - very "not natural" especially in view of the relative strength of spades! The big issue in this one is that RKCB [u]doesn't help[/u] because of the void. You are in trouble ... unless you GSF as soon as west ...
- What is the best contract on these cards?
- Evil communications, and I'd only want to be in 3NT with non expert defenders, and after some semi impossible auction that allows them to make a helpful opening lead. In real Bridge we'll map the defence for them? Those spades are a great source of tricks (LOOK at ...
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