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- July 22, 2010
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- May 17
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World Champion and author of I Love This Game
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- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- Before climbing out of the Well, I would like to thank everyone for sending all of those kind comments and intriguing questions. I really love the Bridgewinners site and I hope they continue to grow and be a voice, a source of information, and a meeting place that allows us ...
- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- Al, if any commentator could do it, it would be you. You know our system better than we know it ourselves! :)
- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- Danny, we would have the choice of treating (13)45 as balanced after opening 1C or we could rebid the club suit, which could have some appeal especially with good suit quality. Actually it is my impression that quite a number of pairs treat this distribution as balanced, if they ...
- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- Hi Henry, Great job with that new scale. I haven't really studied it in depth and it probably wasn't the prime objective, but I perceived that it rewards just winning a match slightly more than the old scale did, which I think is a good thing. I heard ...
- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- In high level competition there tend to be relatively few errors in the card play, pretty much everybody there knows how to play the cards. A much higher percentage of swings occurs because of differences in bidding judgment, especially when being put to a guess at a high level. And ...
- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- I am glad you liked the book, Richard. It is always nice to hear that one's work gets appreciated. Your question is difficult. In a way it was surprising the appeal created such a furor. First I thought it was a function of so many high-profile players being involved ...
- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- Actually H means all the way down to the 10. So with 108x we would play the 8. However, we would play the 10 from 109x, as we would play the J from J10x and the Q from QJx. With Hxxx we play the third-highest and also with HHxx. With ...
- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- Thank you, Eugene, your question is very flattering. I am sorry for taking a long time to answer it. I was stalling, because you actually hit a soft spot. First of all I don't think what you describe is realistically possible without any help at all. I will admit ...
- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- I am not going to name any household names here, we are all in total awe of them. Last summer at the World Championships in Lille Roy and I didn't qualify for the final stages of the main mixed event. Instead we teamed up with Zia and Ida Grönkvist ...
- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- Thank you for inviting me, Steve, and yes, interesting question. This is a bit like the chicken and egg story. Does success follow a substantial amount of adrenaline and a high focus or do we start getting more focussed and feel a higher amount of adrenaline flow once success sets ...
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