blackshoe wrote:
> On Apr 27, 9:57 pm, David Stevenson <brid...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> What do you think is wrong with English alerting of doubles?
>
> I don't know that anything is wrong with it.
>
>> It is what happens in practice, not the theory. Same for
post-alerting.
>
> What? I don't understand what you mean.
>
>> How many times have I played now in North America? Between 150 and
>> 200 sessions? Not once, that is not once, has anyone ever
post-alerted
>> anything.
>
> How many times were they supposed to?
That's what I was wondering. David plays at a considerably higher level
than I do, and maybe such alerts should be common, but at my level
non-ace-asking bids above 3N seem to be universally either to play,
control-showing cue-bids, doubles for penalty, and lead-directing doubles.
Since none of those are "highly unusual", and it's almost always obvious
which is which, I'm not sure any of them would ever require an alert. If,
in fact, some do, I'll have to both change my alerting and agree that he's
right.
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