Re: What's wrong with the Roth point count?

Stig Holmquist <stigfjorden@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
news:dq9j14pkh249j8vr0nfvr5k5g85fvusbvp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Forty years ago two oustanding bridge players, Alvin Roth and Jeff
> Rubens, wrote the book 'Modern Bridge Bidding Complete".
> It featured the Roth Point count Method.
> 
> This method is similar to the British combination distributuin count. 
> It is based on the standard Work  point count for HCP plus Goren's
> short suit count of 1,2 and 3 for ddoubletons, singletons and voids
> resp. but also adds points for suits longer than five cards.
> Specifically it counts 1 pt for each card over five for any major suit
> but counts such length points only for "good" minor suits having at
> least two  of the top three honor cards. 
> 
> Has any r.g.b. member ever used this method and if so, what are its
> shortcomngs? It specifically does not count quick tricks.Why is this
> method never mentioned any more?
> 
> Stig Holmquist  

I always preferred the KS method, at least that was where I first
rememeber 
seeing it, of counting long suit points (6=1 or 7=2) and valuing short 
suits for less( 0 for doubleton, 1 for singleton, 2 for void) UNTIL a fit 
was found. At that point the values increased to 1,3,5.

Otis