French bridge player, coach and writer (newspapers, web-site, books); living in Toulouse, working in Meteo-France company, native from Catalonia, born in 1952.
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France
Bridge Information
Bridge Accomplishments
1996 French Teams 2nd; 2001 French Pairs Champion; 2014 French Senior Teams Champion; 2014 French Cup winner
If possible, i play a convention which doesn't allow to bid with this hand; so as to be sure neither me nor partner will be tempted to take action in such a situation.
The mean time of appearance of 6-6 can be calculated from scratch. we will name it A=T(6-6). The same for T(1-1) which will obviously be the same figure A. The same for T(1-2) which will be B. In order to compare A with B, you can ...
The solution is more obvious if you compare the appearance of 12 compared to 11 (instead of 12 compared to 66). in both problems, the solution must be the same. Starting from the first appearance of 1, you may win with:
12, 112, 1x12 (x is 3,4,5 or ...
I think a TD should never let the board be played in such situations. It's unfair to the player who called TD: either he gets a bad score and he lives with it, or a good score and it will be adjusted as it could have been the result ...
I agree this is the right way to proceed. It was N's responsability to make sure E was aware of his alert. TD concluded N failed in this duty; if E had been damaged he would have been entitled to redress; he was not damaged. N was entitled to ...
Do you manage to include physical activities during a long period of bridge competition such as NABC or international tournament? How long do you need as mental conditioning before a bridge session?