Re: Newbie Acol Bidding Explanation

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:42:20 +0100, David Stevenson
  <bridge2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
: >It is of course very im****tant that 44 majors open 1H, lest a 4-4
: >H fit be lost.  1S-2H would shouw 5 hts.  1S-2C-2H would show 5 spds.
: >It is harder to come up with a scenario where it matters whether
: >you opened S or D :-)  Thus what DS describes sounds very sensible.
: 
:     Sorry: it is *easy* to find a scenario where it matters which you
open 
:  of D or S: the trouble is I can easily find a scenario where 1S works 
:  better, and I can easily find one where 1D works better!

Agreed, but even though it may be easy, I still think that it is harder,
in the sense that the cl***** of problematic hands are smaller, and the
problem hands would have to be described in more detail (such as honour
strength and/or location) to explain the problem.  Or is there something
blatantly obvious that I have missed?

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