Bridge Winners Profile for Max Schireson
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Dec. 8, 2014
- Last Seen
- Feb. 14
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Trying hard to learn to play bridge well. Stubbornly believe that is possible despite learning in my 40's.
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- The first 105 boards of the 2018 USBC round of 16, where we played ROSENTHAL to a draw. (The match was 120 boards, the last 15 were less successful).
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Won 9 of 17 matches to finish 10th in the 2018 USBC RR. 27th in 2018 Blue Ribbon pairs and a couple other national pairs overalls. Won 2017 GNT-C Nationals (is winning a limited event really a bridge accomplishment? Dunno...)
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Debbie Rosenberg, Cadir Lee, Lynn Shannon, Sarah Youngquist
- ACBL Ranking
- Life Master
| Olivia / Miranda JUSBC |
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| Max and Lynn 2/1 (major suit rebid usually 6), Walsh style |
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- What is a ‘convention’?
- Ok no takers so here goes... We all know that a double might conventionally as for a specific or unusual lead if we are not on lead. Ever been on lead with the A of trump and 32 in a side suit, wishing that partner could know to duck his ...
- What is a ‘convention’?
- Having slept on it I realize that a double of 7NT by the player on lead need not always be penalty! Do you see how it could have another meaning? Same for almost any final pass... Edit: typo
- What is a ‘convention’?
- Yes. I believe there is exactly one other situation where there is only one logical meaning of a call. There are many more calls that might have one clearly best meaning, but other uses are not totally nullo.
- What are opponents entitled to
- John Thank you. Unfortunately is not often that a bridgewinners post changes someone’s thinking, but this really helped me to understand these issues differently. In an idealized world we would just give our opponents a complete and correct set of system notes, which they would read and know perfectly ...
- What is a ‘convention’?
- I should say that more broadly any double of 7Nt when you are on lead must be penalty, not just the situation you describe.
- What is a ‘convention’?
- That’s one. There is one other indisputably natural call...
- What is a ‘convention’?
- I was thinking about what doubles are purely natural and could never have another meaning based on context/agreement. I could find none. Offhand I could find only one situation where I think every bridge player everywhere could agree based purely on the scoring what a certain call meant, then ...
- What are opponents entitled to
- I am not a believer that “pretend there are screens - what would happen” is the right way to solve all UI issues, but nevertheless think it is a relevant comparison and notable when there is a significant discrepancy that advantages the side with UI relative to how things would work ...
- What are opponents entitled to
- I guess I should have said “the side that would have been the offending side with screens is saved from part of their offense and might occasionally obtain a better result by their legally condoned use of unauthorized information.”
- What are opponents entitled to
- Thanks that makes sense. I think it might be too perverse - even for me, unsympathetic as I tend to be to the offenders - to consider giving the correct explanations a violation of a players obligation to carefully avoid benefiting from UI under 73C1. It seems the offending side may occasionally ...
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