Getting clobbered by Katz, Jacobs, and the Italians in the 2002 Spingold.
Bridge Accomplishments
Third in flight B NAP in 2010. Played in third day of LM Pairs in 2002. Beat a 21-seed and a 38-seed in half-day Spingold matches. Wrote an article published in "The Bridge World" in Feb 2006.
Regular Bridge Partners
Clyde Kruskal, Lloyd Rawley, Ron Zucker
Favorite Conventions
forcing club with transfer responses; 2D natural and weak (5-baggers OK NV); variation of Meckwell over 1NT where 2m shows 4+m with 5M and dbl shows majors or 4M with 5+m instead of m
If 2M+1 is an ambiguous game try and responder (when not always accepting or declining) bids where his secondary values are, then opener can stop with a short-suit try in that suit and go on with a long-suit try in that suit. Information hiding of opener's hand.
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At least a year ago we switched our Mecklite 1♠ response to showing 5+♥ instead of ♠ because we were tired of wrong-siding contracts and we didn't see any down side. Only this month am I seeing others doing this (including Moss-Grue in "The Bridge World".
I like psycho NV too. I add that double of 1C is 5-5 majors with game interest.
After 1C-1D I prefer Mathe, forgoing CRASH so I have a natural bid in each suit.