Montag, 23. März 2009

These GIB's are crazy

This happened to me last in BBO "Bridge for Money".
Look at the alerts of the 2Heart, 2Spade and 3Club bids.
These alerts are all from the same FD-CC. LOL

Donnerstag, 5. März 2009

Defense problem


Click at the NEXT button 8-times to play the first 8 tricks.

What do you play now?

Heart is in the triple void and gives declarer a ruff and discard.

Club is in the double void and gives declarer a ruff and discard.

Diamond is very dangerous, declarer holds the Q of that suit.

It seems you are in a double-bind dilemma.

Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009

Montag, 9. Februar 2009

How to avoid this endplay?

This hand I played in a BBO-team-match. And I misdefended.
Click on my nick to show only my hand and dummy's.
Right-click the diagram and choose "hide played cards".

Click on "next" for every trick to see how the play went.



Do you see where I made the mistake?

After winning the diamond J it was mandatory to cash diamond A. THough partners lenght signals in the minors were wrong, I should know that declarer's distribution is 4423 and partner holds both minor Ks.

Donnerstag, 5. Februar 2009

Handviewer

I was looking all the time for the best method to post bridge diagrams in a post.
After experimneting with different suggestions (see the below posts) I decided to make screen-shots of the BBO-Movie and post the images.
Now I found a new nice tool from Fred Gitelman: the BBO-handviewer and I'm excited.

To get a rough idea how this works:
Fred's announcement in BBF
Link to the handviewer description
Thread in BBF

I wrote a first example for the handviewer demonstrating how a automatic simple squeeze works. The only flaw is that you cannot set who is on lead in an incomplete deal. So I made East declarer to give South the first lead.



Try the NEXT PREVIOUS and REWIND Buttons to play the cards.
Try a right click in the diagramm to hide played cards.
Try a click on a players name (e.g. South) to see only this hand and dummy.

This is a complete hand I played in BBO, which demonstrates the necessity to agree a rescue sequence after 1NT X ven playing 15-17 NT.
This is copied and pasted from the .lin file BBO saved on the HD of my PC.

Freitag, 10. Oktober 2008

Perhaps this is the best method to post bridgediagrams

Take a screenshot of any lin-file or BBO-Movie and paste it:

Noch'n Gedicht

This Diagram is created by Bridge-Composer


















Board 1
South Deals
Both Vul
♠ A Q J 8 7 6 5
J 9 6
7
♣ K Q
♠ 10 4 3 2
A Q 5 4
Q J 4
♣ 7 2




WE
♠ —
K 8 7 2
A K 10 5 3
♣ 9 5 4 3
♠ K 9
10 3
9 8 6 2
♣ A J 10 8 6