Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Summers-Smith
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Sept. 20, 2015
- Last Seen
- 57 minutes ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
English county-class bridgeplayer; or, rather, I was, when playing often enough to stay sharp. Favourite methods (1) a home-grown strong Diamond, and (2) Acol. I firmly believe that strong NT and (especially) 2/1 are inventions of the Devil.
- Country
- United Kingdom
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Discovering, in real-life play, a one-loser smother play which seems never to have been written up. Least favorite bridge memory: going for 800 in 2Sx on that hand, rather than 1100.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Knocked the holders out of the Gold Cup 40 years ago, and.lost in the next round. Finished in the top five a time or two in the EBU Summer Congress Swiss Pairs.
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Coventry and North Warwickshire
- Favorite Tournaments
- EBU Summer Congress Swiss Pairs
- Favorite Conventions
- Strong Diamond
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- The ACBL: a Byword for Incompetence?
- Back in 1973, I played in an English congress (tournament) with a Jewish partner. When sending in the entry form, I had ticked the box about special dietary requirements and added the necessary details. When we got to the break and collected our trays of food, we found that the ...
- The ACBL: a Byword for Incompetence?
- In a cricket blog today, I learned of the ECB Game. The idea is to convert that initialism to something more appropriate (cricket lovers will understand). Rule: expand ECB as adverb-adjective-noun. OP's suggestion was, Excruciatingly Complacent Buffoons. Another suggestion was, Embarrassingly Cack-handed Blunderers (and also a campanology-related word for ...
- Squeeze for 1400
- "+1400" "Flat. Never mind that, what happened on board 12? How on earth did you let the overtrick through?"
- Leonard Helfgott's bidding problem: --- AK AQJ96 AJT543
- I've ticked off this from my to-do list: (3♥)P(P)? It was a Pro-Am game. I held a good hand with the best part of 9 tricks, including a running minor. ♥ void? What ♥ void? 3N! for all the MPs. The only making game (partner held ...
- How would you interpret this bid?
- "How would you interpret this bid?" Blackwood solves all problems. Doesn't it? In real life, partner is about to see dummy. 4N by me took control of the auction. 6♣ suggests that he psyched 4♦, or something. I am not going to waste any time at all ...
- Richard Fleet's bidding problem: AQT9874 --- 6432 53
- Pass. For all I know, partner is looking at 9 tricks in his or her own hand, and only needs my cards to stop opponents from running 5 rapid ♠ tricks. Have I, or have I not, described and limited my hand? Bidding again here is the worst sort of ...
- Question emailed to me.
- Only the one club - but it's studded with iron nails. One of my partners, then no longer quite a junior, chose whimsically to open 3♣ in third on ♣AKQx and a pile of rubbish. His bid had some practical though perhaps not theoretical merits. (a) Neither opponent could ...
- ATB
- Try constructing a hand or two where a ♦ switch is needed to beat 3♠ (this is IMPs).
- Hesitation blues
- A few years ago, on another website, a student whose teacher had set the ridiculous question "Write a blues song" asked for help. I waded in, gave them the innocuous first words of five AAB verses, and suggested that they take it from there. Any likely completion would have been ...
- Hesitation blues
- One of the great blind preaching bluesmen. In every video I've seen, he seems to be smoking either a cigarette or a stogie.
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