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

Kenny McCormack wrote:
> 
> 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.

Here, as far as I am concerned, XX shows strength (10 HC pts and
up) and a desire to deal with whatever the enemy bids.  If partner
interferes with that he shows peculiar hands.  I am expecting the
op****tunity to hammer the enemy bid.  Partner is allowed to
disagree, of course, but that comes after my op****tunity.

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