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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
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Subject: Re: 2 D Openings
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Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 14:09:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 25 14:09:59 1983
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My partner and I play sometimes Precision and sometimes hacked-up standard.
Usually, 2D is not natural, however (as C.C. Wei might say, 2D as a 
pre-empt is no one's idea of a nuclear weapon).  If you learn all of
the sequences over a straight-Precision 2D, it can be a very powerful
bid.  In one tourney, I shaded values and opened it, and the opponents
(even after hearing what kind of hand I had) entered the bidding and
bought the contract (the farm came later).  Our 2D promises 1 or zero
diamonds and 444 or 435 or 345 in the other suits (or 445).  My partner led
his Ace of Diamonds, I discarded, and he gave me a Diamond ruff.
That was fun.
There is a really good book on the system by Terence Reese.  I recommend
it highly.
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	Randwulf (Randy Haskins)
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