Bridge Winners Profile for Zygmunt Marcinski
Basic Information
- Member Since
- June 26, 2011
- Last Seen
- 2 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- introduction to bridge on my father's lap
- Bridge Accomplishments
- CNTC winner
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Bryan Maksymetz, Nicolas l'Ecuyer
- Favorite Tournaments
- Summer NABC
- Favorite Conventions
- Strong 1C
- ACBL Ranking
- Gold Life Master
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- What is the weaker call?
- David, At first blush that strikes me as an entirely sensible agreement, particularly in this ♠'s over ♥'s situation (there might even be case for the meaning to be nuanced as a function of vulnerability). In the heat of battle do you and Anne manage to systematically alert ...
- _gressive
- @ Larry: you don't necessarily have below 5m KC available on all auctions. One can either agree to always have KC available in preference to a regressive 4N or the other way around. My vote would be for the other way around on the grounds that the value of limiting ...
- _gressive
- @ Frances: that's a very sensible and cost-free improvement to the 5NT idea that I first noted perhaps a dozen years ago - and particularly easy to remember for Kickback aficionados!
- _gressive
- @ Allan: "particularly a grand". If Qbidding propels you past the usual KC yet reveals the possibility of a grand slam, some leading European pairs have a simple yet elegant solution: in such unusual circumstances they interpreted 5N as a delayed KC inquiry.
- _gressive
- @ Craig: to reduce if not entirely solve this ambiguity it is not uncommon (in these parts at least) to assign to the 2♣ - 2♦ // 3M sequences the meaning of "4M + longer (usually 6+) ♦'s in an unbalanced hand pattern". I concede in advance that the OP gives ...
- _gressive
- @ Andy: with such primary support for ♦'s one can guess to suppress the moth-eaten (albeit 6-card) ♠ suit and instead essay a 4♥ splinter over 3♦ - ergo 2♣ - 2♦ // 3♦ - 4♥ // 4♠ - probably 5♦ to deny a ♣ Qbid or other ...
- _gressive
- @ David B: try as I might I am unable to construct two hands that are consistent with both Responder's actions thru 4♦ [working backwards: (A) his 4♦ confirmed values, including fit of course, sufficient to warrant slam investigation, (B) his 3♠ showed 5+♠'s (and ...
- _gressive
- @ Allan: (1) I should think so - and even if he held that hand, particularly if he's 2=3 or 3=2 in the red suits, he might just have passed 3N with such poor slam values (2) a matter of agreement, absent which my guess would be a splinter ...
- Assign the blame missed slam - 2
- @ David L: "I didn't see mentioned the possibility of East's bidding 3♦ instead of 3N." For the record, that is exactly what I was intimating when I stated upthread "although I'm also not in the least a fan of East's space-consuming 3N bid holding a 2-way ...
- Assign the blame missed slam - 2
- @ Kamel: for reasons stated upthread, on this particular West hand I'm not a fan of a 2♠ FSJ. No, I suggest that the actual auction was OK (although I'm also not in the least a fan of East's space-consuming 3N bid holding a 2-way single stopper ...
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