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

On May 4, 5:04 pm, henrysun...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On May 4, 7:49 am, Stig Holmquist <stigfjor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> I tell them an opening one bid guarantees 10 HCP plus two quick tricks
> and in addition 3 points from extra HCP, long points and or quick
> tricks for a total of 15 points. I've abandoned the Goren short suit
> count and instead teach 1 point for each card over four in majors but
> only in minors if the suit has 5 HCP.It may seem consevative, but
> that's what  novices need, since they have no sound judgment. It helps
> them to bid makable contracts. It also keeps them from opening with
> junk, such as QJx-QJx-KJxxx-QJ, which has 14 points.
>
> ****************
>
> An opening 1-bid guarantees 10 hcps? So this hand, opened by both
> Meckwell and Zia in the 1981 Bermuda Bowl, is not an opening bid:
>
> JTxxx
> VOID
> AQTxxxx
> x
>
> 1 length point for every card over 4 in the majors, but no length
> points unless the suit has 5 hcps in a minor?  so
>
> AKx
> VOID
> KJT
> KJTxxxx
>
> gets zero length points, but
>
> xxxxx
> xxxxx
> VOID
> AKx
>
> gets 2?  Does that seem even close to being intuitively right to you?
>
> Well, good luck teaching your students - I actually mean that, there
> is much good to be done in teaching people to enjoy a great game.  If
> they buy it, then good for them.
>
> Just please don't publish your findings lest they be ripped apart by
> someone as anti-Stig as you are anti-Audrey.
>
> Henrysun909

When choosing between two evils, the one being right this time is
Hevil:-) Even though I can't think of a hand with 3 aces not worth an
opening bid.

Boris