Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!rh From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.rec.bridge Subject: Re: 2 D Openings Message-ID: <500@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 14:09:59 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddie.500 Posted: Mon Jul 25 14:09:59 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 25-Jul-83 17:11:09 EDT References: <347@houxz.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 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. -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins) genrad!mit-eddie!rh or... rh@mit-ee (via mit-mc)