henrysun909@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On May 1, 3:35 pm, Georgiana Gates <ram...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> henrysun...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>> And third, why on earth would internationalists need to alert a
>>> lightner double of a slam? Us that so unusual and uncommon a
>>> convention everywhere except the US that it needs an alert? And if I
>>> bid a slam, knew that doubles of slam were not alertable, and had any
>>> inkling that I might run to notrump, couldn't I have just asked
>>> whether it was lighter or negative slam double or the steven and my
>>> favorite convention, 'i know you're going to make it, have a few extra
>>> imps on us' double rofl?
>>> As I said, very disturbing.
>>> Henrysun909
>> I used to have an understanding that a double of a grand slam meant "I
>> have a ca****ng ace. Find it". And yes, it came up - IIRC, more than
once.
>
> That's a useful agreement to have, but wouldn't that fall into the
> category of lightner doubles?
>
> Henrysun909
Well, some of the time it works out to be the same. The only hand I
remember clearly with that agreement was when I doubled a grand holding
the ace of trumps. They were missing AJxx, and when the dummy came down,
declarer said "Well, I know where the Ace is"!
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