Re: (online) Seeking a rule for when is XX SOS

gazelle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Kenny McCormack) wrote in news:g09ogd$oim$2
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> As many of you know, XX for SOS is dangerous online, because your
> pd-of-the-moment might not catch it.  It seems to me that it ought to be
> possible to come up with some (very) simple rules, that one could put in
> one's "profile", that even the thickest online pd couldn't screw up.
> 
> I'm thinking it would be:  XX is SOS except... (when it obviously
isn't):
> 
>      1) 1x (X) XX - is obviously a "normal" (whatever that means)
>          sequence.  What the XX shows and what opener is supposed to do
>          is less than clear, but that's another story.
>      2) Constructive sequences where we are bidding to make, and we
>          really do think they've stepped in it.
> 
> So, how to codify the above and make it bulletproof?
> 

Doubt it can be done.  Too many auctions.  

I would tend to define XX as SOS except when we've found a fit, or one of 
us has given preference to a suit. 

And obvious Omnibus redoubles and redoubles of doubled cue-bids etc carry 
their own meaning.

Is this such a big deal that you wold bother to put it in your profile?

The truly interesting redoubles are the ones made by the person who made 
the bid:

(1H) - 2C - (Pass) - Pass
 (X) - XX

That's either strength showing, or psychic - testing the opponents' 
agreements.

Another interesting readouble is when 3NT gets doubled.  I play that as 
"doubt-showing" - sort of semi-SOS - but there's a lot of potential theory

on this one.

Like I said - too many auctions.

Cheers ... Bill