I feel just about like the early people to comment to this post.
Perhaps cynically, I have wondered if the stop card algoritm for some players goes like this:
If I want partner to wake up and notice my bid, I use the stop card.
If I don't give ...
I feel it helped one person, me.
For instance, my 1NT opening bid has the potential for being a poor spring board for finding my suit contracts. The calculations I did tell me a 1NT opening bid provides perhaps an even poorer springboard for opponents to find "their" contract using ...
The figures presented were based on calculating a battery of semi-laborious background figures. If they had not mostly been done previously, I don’t think one can just jot down the answers to what I wrote.
Step 1 was to calculate all the partnership suit and corresponding probability distributions induced ...
Opening 1NT with a singleton: I see 1NT as announcing a bad opening hand. So holding a singleton, partner (your trusty captain) might misjudge your combined assets and misjudge strain and/or contract level a little too often.
I follow Bergen (The Forcing 1NT) and always open 1NT with a ...
Thanks for calling my attention to RP's work.
Double dummy simulation does not bother me because I think of these results as simple baseline information where no baseline at all previously existed.
What hits me here is that, for this type of West hand and the auction type given ...
Sorry to be slow in responding.
(A) I feel the 4432 hand should not be included in my original list! While, it is such a frequently dealt hand (P=22%), and when holding a 4432 hand, the 7775/8666 crops up relatively often (P=13%), I feel I needn't ...
This isn't a calculation you jot down in the margin of the newspaper at the breakfast table. It takes a lot of perspiration and just a grain of inspiration.
What we are after is the probability of responder holding 5 S's and 4 H's given partner opened ...