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DavidC's Bridge Blog: System Regulations
http://dcrcbridge.blogspot.com/2007/02/system-regulations.html
Saturday, 10 February 2007. As you can see from this blog, I am fascinated by bidding theory. However, when it comes to actually sitting down at the table and playing the game, I do not believe that people should be allowed to experiment with unusual methods without restriction. System regulations are a necessary part of the game. In an ideal world, two things would happen:. People would be allowed to play whatever methods they thought were best; and also. So, I am very much in favour of restrictions, pr...
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DavidC's Bridge Blog: David's Bidding Theory: Introduction
http://dcrcbridge.blogspot.com/2007/01/davids-bidding-theory-introduction.html
Wednesday, 3 January 2007. David's Bidding Theory: Introduction. Bidding theory is a huge subject because there are so many different auctions possible. If you're given the first few bids in the auction, you can always ask the question, what are the best meanings to give to the various possibilities for the next call? But there is one situation which is much more important than any other. That is, how will you define your opening bids? When you open the bidding, you can't be sure how the auction will tur...
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DavidC's Bridge Blog: August 2009
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Sunday, 2 August 2009. TaBR4: Three Answers to Every Question. This post is about the regulations concerning disclosure of agreements - both alerting and answering questions. Given the limitless variety of treatments and conventions that can be played, the rules about disclosure can never be totally precise. As a result, two very common questions are "Should this call be alerted? And "How should this call be described? The player who is trying to describe his partner's call. So, what does that mean?
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DavidC's Bridge Blog: November 2009
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Sunday, 1 November 2009. What's so bad about transfer openings? The EBU has invited comments about system regulation on the L&E blog. Apparently the system that has prompted discussion this time is a transfer-based set-up along these lines:. 1H = balanced 9-15. 1NT/2C/2D = natural [I assume]. And this isn't the first time that 1-level transfer openings have been under the spotlight - there have been complaints about moscito. Now, I've written about system regulation. None of these are necessarily very "r...
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DavidC's Bridge Blog: June 2008
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Friday, 20 June 2008. L&E Minutes for June 2008. Apologies for the excessive amount of EBU stuff on my blog, but we live in interesting times . New permitted agrements at Level 4. So we have some new "toys" at Level 4. They are all pretty harmless, being things that it makes sense to allow given what is already permitted. For example, in the rule for "Either-Or Club" both the strong option and the weak option now correspond properly to what is allowed at lower levels. The problem is these ferts should ne...
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DavidC's Bridge Blog: System Notes
http://dcrcbridge.blogspot.com/2009/12/system-notes.html
Sunday, 13 December 2009. Geocities closed down a couple of months ago and I've been too lazy to find a new place to put my system notes. For the time being, if you want a copy of any of the notes referred to in this blog, please email me at {firstpart}@yahoo.co.uk, where {firstpart} = dcrc2y. If you tell us the URL for the system notes on Geocities we can retrieve them using The Wayback Machine. Http:/ web.archive.org/collections/web.html. 27 December 2009 at 20:28. Not totally sure, I think it was.
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DavidC's Bridge Blog: TaBR4: Three Answers to Every Question
http://dcrcbridge.blogspot.com/2009/08/tabr4-three-answers-to-every-question.html
Sunday, 2 August 2009. TaBR4: Three Answers to Every Question. This post is about the regulations concerning disclosure of agreements - both alerting and answering questions. Given the limitless variety of treatments and conventions that can be played, the rules about disclosure can never be totally precise. As a result, two very common questions are "Should this call be alerted? And "How should this call be described? The player who is trying to describe his partner's call. So, what does that mean?
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DavidC's Bridge Blog: July 2009
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Sunday, 26 July 2009. TaBR3: Who Makes the Rules? In the previous post I argued that a TD should follow the regulations of his club (or tournament, or NBO), even if they contradict the Laws of bridge. That raises the question (as put by Nigel K in a comment to that post) - if a regulation is illegal, what can. Be done about it? But that doesn't sound very satisfactory. Surely if a regulation is illegal. It ought to be possible to require. It to be put right. The NBO has to hear about it. The NBO has to h...
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DavidC's Bridge Blog: What's Up
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Saturday, 18 July 2009. I have to apologise again. For not blogging recently. Particularly seeing as I was quite optimistic last time that I might get back into it. Anyway, what's happened is that I've moved back to Cambridge and started work as a software engineer. I've been here for a month now. After all this time, starting a proper job has been a bit of a shock to the system - I was so. Tired after work for the first two weeks - but I'm very glad to be here. And the weeks have gone by very quickly.
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