On May 4, 8:59 am, "Blind Broccoli" <blindbrocc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Having been raised (in bridge terms) on the writings of Terence Reese,
even
> though I'm a yank I've always had a fondness for old-fa****oned Acol. You
> know, the Skid Simon variety "bid what you think you can make and pass
when
> you feel like it." I know that in the post-Crowhurst era many
"improvements"
> have been made to "tournament Acol" and even Reese said "we cannot
continue
> to grunt at each other like cave men."
>
> That said, is anyone playing and winning using anything like
old-fa****oned
> Acol in high level international tournaments or major national
> champion****ps? Or do all the experts who want to play serious bridge
play
> complex methods with most bidding sequences tightly defined?
>
> BB
I would think the former, but in addition I'll add this:
I can't think of a more anti-field natural bidding method than weak
1nts (vs strong), 4 card majors (vs five). light 2/1s (vs game forcing
or nearly so), and strong 2-bids (vs weak) that will work reasonably
well on most hands.
Therefore, if you are willing to inject a little anti-field-ness into
your duplicate games, I'd strongly consider using something akin to
Acol.
My theory of anti-field systems is this: most sessions won't favor
one system over another. But some sessions will. In that case, if
the session favors the anti-field system, you have a much greater
chance of winning. If you play what everyone else plays, then the
session's bad boards for everyone's system will be bad for you, and
the good boards will be good for you. That means that everyone is
playing from the same place.
But if you are using a different system and the boards favor that,
well then you might have a winner.
Since a team of four me's would stand no chance against Nickel using
their methods in a Swiss match (to say nothing of a long KO match), at
least if I'm playing Acol and they are playing Eastern scientific and
strong club systems I have a chance to pull off an upset if the luck
goes my way.
I certainly won't be beating them on the basis of my skill level
versus theirs.
Henrysun909
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