Bridge Winners Profile for Jean-Pierre Rocafort
Basic Information
- Member Since
- May 23, 2012
- Last Seen
- 15 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
French bridge player, coach and writer (newspapers, web-site, books); living in Toulouse, working in Meteo-France company, native from Catalonia, born in 1952.
- Country
- France
Bridge Information
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 1996 French Teams 2nd; 2001 French Pairs Champion; 2014 French Senior Teams Champion; 2014 French Cup winner
- Regular Bridge Partners
- michel claret, jean-marie py, catherine barthe
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Montauban
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- Director, please!
- The bid that needs investigation is 2S. Did West alert 2C? Did West explain 2C? Did East hear explanations? Why did East bid 2S?
- Vaguely spade-oriented system -any thoughts on where it's from?
- If you were interested in "La Majeure d'Abotd": https://roquibridge.wordpress.com/systemes/
- It's About Time
- Experiments have been made with clocks but they were not very promising. Bridge players are much less disciplined than chess players; they don't mind to make final passes or to correctly call dummy cards so they will still less mind to hit the clock when required. Furthermore the timing ...
- Mini & Weak No Trump
- Main problem with mini NT is that you have to deal with one more balanced zone. 5 instead of traditional 4 (12-14, 15-17, 18-19, 20-21 for instance). This may be dealt in different ways. Using 1C and 1D independently of minor lenghts to differentiate strenght zones is not in my ...
- Accusation of Plagiarism against Mark Horton
- As Karen indicates, bridge plagiarism is frequent, along different forms. Word for word copy of someone's else text is shameful but easy to prove and a simpleton's effort. Plagiarism of deals is more convoluted. I had a funny experience a long time ago. I was writing a weekly ...
- Providing Information When Not Asked
- You could write on your CC: "Rusinov with exceptions needing clarification". On another side, there are sometimes regulations forbidding the use of some conditional agreements.
- Who?
- You are certainly right and i was confused.
- Who?
- Sally Brock (maybe Horton at the time she created her game-try)
- Do not misplay this slam (like I did ....)
- probability that west has DQ: p=(a+b)/(a+b+c+d) a: west has SK, SA, DQ; b: 1 spade honour, DQ; c:SK, SA; d: 1 spade honour a=C(10,23)=23*22*...*14/10*9*...*1 = 11*Q b=2*C(11,23)=2*23*22 ...
- Do not misplay this slam (like I did ....)
- Probability p that west has both spade honours = a/(a+b) where a is the number of possible west's hands consisting of both spade honours and 11 out of 24 remaining EW cards; b is the number of possible west's hands consisting of one spade honour and 12 ...
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