Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sask.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!alberta!sask!custead From: custead@sask.UUCP (Der cuss) Newsgroups: net.rec.bridge Subject: A question about negative doubles Message-ID: <178@sask.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 20:35:52 EST Article-I.D.: sask.178 Posted: Tue Mar 5 20:35:52 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 04:48:21 EST Organization: U of Saskatchewan, Canada Lines: 32 Someone suggested that this group needs some traffic...so here is a question. About two weeks ago I held (approximately...my memory fades quickly): S Qxx H Axxx D Kx C Jxxx LHO was dealer and opened 1C. Partner overcalled 1D. RHO babbled something to the effect of 1S. I wanted to take some action...we play negative doubles and so I decided to make a 'negative double'. Question: 1) Can this properly be called a negative double, given that LHO opened instead of partner? Is there some other term? 2) Regardless of terminology, is it alertable? (Partner did not alert it.) I certainly don't intend it to be a penalty double. It seems to me that the majority of duplicate players play negative doubles, but they are alertable, and that in standard methods a double after partner has bid is for penalty. (If partner has not bid a double is for takeout.) I don't remember the specific sequence I describe above ever happening to me before. (For the curious, partner bid 2D and played it there, making 3...don't recall if that was a good or bad board.) comments welcome. L. Custead Dept of duplicate Univ of Sask ihnp4!sask!custead