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

On May 1, 1:35 pm, Stig Holmquist <stigfjor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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

Re-evaluation is where things fall apart. There is no aggressive hand
evaluation that can cope with huge negative adjustments, fortunately
this happens rarely and much more often being aggressive pays off in a
way of reaching distributional games and slams.
http://dna-view.com/reese.htm
Terence Reese had a way of writing things here and there that seem to
have stuck in our various memories =96 apparently again and again the
same quotes seem memorable to each of us: "It is in general not a good
policy to double the opponents before having bid the limit of our own
cards."

Cheers
Boris