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Chew the Fat! => The IAC Café => Topic started by: Curls77 on April 10, 2022, 05:36:35 PM
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Hi all !
Are we ready for the next "battle"? ;)
The next match is scheduled to take part on Sunday, May 1st, 2022. We'll have 2 starting times hours:
* 1100utc, 7am NY, noon London, 16:30 New Delhi, 11pm Auckland
* 1900 utc, 3pm NY, 8pm London, 7am Auckland
All those starting at 1100utc will play the same boards, and all those starting at 1900 utc will also play the same boards, but different from those at noon.
Each match is of 16 boards, played in two stanzas of 8 (* see below), changing opponents at half-time. Scoring is by IMPs.
Please form your teams and choose a captain, who should mail IAC.at.BBO@gmail.com (and please CC me: sanja@sapo.pt), stating your team name, BBO usernames of the pairs in the team, and which session you prefer (earlier or later, either or both). If you want, you can play in both sessions, assuming we have enough opposing ACOL teams.
Each team can have more than 2 pairs, but there will be only 2 stanzas, the captains should inform us which pair plays in which session.
Deadline for registration is April 26th @ 2359 utc.
If you are just a pair, please post here on forums and match up with another pair to form the team. Or as a single player, just say you'd like to play, and in which session, and pair up with another member : )
In the 2nd challenge 2 IAC teams won, and I am sure we'll do even better this time : ) And even more sure, all will enjoy the games, so do not miss! :)
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We received requests from some players to make matches 2* 10 boards. What is your opinion on that?
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I'm sure that my OCP team would be happy with 20 boards.
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I cannot make the Mayday event, I am sorry about that. June maybe.
I think these matches are a good idea, I have enjoyed them and have enjoyed the team, but May 1 is out for me.
Ken
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Sorry to hear you can not participate this time, Ken!
Confirmed registrations:
Early slot: 1100 UTC
TEAM: Double Down
CAPTAIN: djc11
djc11 & v2008
esji & rtadep
TEAM: BLU and friends
CAPTAIN: blubayou
blubayou & ShawnT
Bernt 5 & Gesie 5
Later slot: 1900 UTC
TEAM: "oink!" OCP team
CAPTAIN: brian_m
OliverC & brian_m
iamadeus & p0stm0rtem
TEAM: 7NT team
CAPTAIN: Wackojack
Wackojack & Veeree
CCR3 &Tislafi
TEAM: Fruit Machine Swiss
CAPTAIN: bABsG
bABsG & Jamesk323
kookee +nehabridge
Thanks :) I hope others join too, let's not leave it for the last moment please!
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soosie and sueannis can play in the early session but we need another pair please!
We play basic sayc.
We are playing for the acol club in the late session, but would like to play for IAC in the early session - hope that's OK.
Sanya,
sueannis is not yet a member of IAC but would like to join please!
Thanks, soosie
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Hi Soosie
sueannis will be most welcome to join IAC: )
Please ask her to register at IAC site, http://iac.pigpen.org.uk
And sure, we are happy that you 2 want to play for IAC side in the earlier session, hopefully we'll get a nice pair to form a team with you. !H
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on monday the 25th, shawn and I offer to join soosie and Sue in the early slot. if we are acceptable.
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Sadly Soosie and her partner redraw, they can not make it.
I asked many IAC members to register here, as teams, pairs and single players, and will match all into teams, best I can.
The list of registrations at the top will be updated consequently.
ACOL has MANY teams, I am so afraid we can not match all of them, but please lets have as many as we can. Thanks.
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2 would like to play on an IAC team for 1900 utc match 5/1: rq4mulae & stevelowei.
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I have found a partner Neha. So Neha (nehabridge) and Shankar(kookee). Hope we can find another pair playing 2/1
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Confirmed registrations:
Early slot: 1100 UTC
TEAM: Double Down
CAPTAIN: djc11
djc11 & v2008
esji & rtadep
TEAM: BLU and friends
CAPTAIN: blubayou
blubayou & ShawnT
Bernt 5 & Gesie 5
Later slot: 1900 UTC
TEAM: "oink!" OCP team
CAPTAIN: brian_m
OliverC & brian_m
iamadeus & p0stm0rtem
TEAM: 7NT team
CAPTAIN: Wackojack
Wackojack & Veeree
CCR3 & Tislafi
TEAM: Fruit Machine Swiss
CAPTAIN: bABsG
bABsG & Jamesk323
kookee & nehabridge
TEAM: NEEDS TEAM NAME
CAPTAIN: rq4mulae
rq4mulae & stevelowei
blubayou & yleexotee
TEAM: Black Chickadee
CAPTAIN: hi bye
hi bye & James950
Voldenuit & Faraday
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I can play with RQ4mulae and steve_***, but bereft of a 4th just now.
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I can be the 4th, but I'm going to be hard pressed to get there exactly at 12. I might be playing from my car for the first hand or two.
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ACCEPTED, ty gentlmen!!! Can rq4mulae pls pick a name for the team?
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Hi all, we are fully set for tomorrow's matches. I mailed captains with sitting order and short instructions.
You'll find the same file in the new 2022 05 folder within: https://tinyurl.com/mrycy7fz (https://tinyurl.com/mrycy7fz) where we'll add all travellers and documents after the match.
Please be online 10 mins before start, and if some of your teamies is missing, try to get a friend for a sub, and inform BBO_IAC, username that will set all matches.
As all matches within one session play the same hands, it's crucial that there are no delays, so all matches can start as soon as possible.
Please do not forget to announce your system, leads and carding, and alert all artificial bids by their meaning, not just convention name.
Wish you best of luck dear IAC, and lotsa fun!! :)
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Thanks all for participating and captains for organizing their teams!
IAC did so much better this time ;D , congrats to winning teams:
* Double Down (Captain: djc11): djc11 & v2008 + esji & rtadep
* BLU and friends (Captain: blubayou): blubayou & ShawnT + Bernt 5 & Gesie 5
* Black Chickadee (Captain: hi bye): hi bye & rinaj(James950) + Voldenuit & Faraday
* 7NT team (Captain: Wackojack) Wackojack & Veeree + CCR3 & Tislafi
You can find PDFs of all matches, as well as travellers and copiable LINs, in 2022 05 sub-folder of IAC Drive, the link is: https://tinyurl.com/mrycy7fz (https://tinyurl.com/mrycy7fz)
Right-click on the document that you want to see and choose download.
Well done everyone, and cudos to our ACOL opps : )
We hope you will plan to join the next challenge, on 1st Sunday of every month. Mark June 5th in your calendar and gather your team!
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Sanya has asked that I take a look at some hands. Let's try hand #1
In our match, neither team got to PAR (the optimal contract - seeing all hands) and thus both teams went down in the wrong contract. HOWEVER, ACOL got a +14 IMP score when our side overshot. Lets see what happened:
North Hand South Hand
KQ95 10764
- A72
8753 AKJ4
AQ1064 K7
With our table playing the hands:
- North has 11 HCP, and a void in Hearts. I believe many would open this a fairly standard 1 !C. However, our north, presumably thinking about the rebid, decided to open an unorthodox 1 !S and they were off to the races!
(Speaking of the rebid, I think there are plenty of options after 1 !C- If p bids 1 !D, then 1 !S will follow and the same with a 1 !H response. If p bids 1nt, then pass will follow)
- South has a great hand opposite a 1 !S open and has the obvious Jacoby 2nt. (showing 4 card support and game forcing)
- North bids the customary continuation with 3h showing shortness
- And now things get interesting as the ops jump in with a lead directing X over 3H
- South is looking at all suits stopped, with no losers in Hearts, the top two Diamonds, and what could be only 1 loser in clubs, so they cue 4C with a little extra in their hand. I believe this is a fair bid with what has been shown so far.
- But ACOL refuses to go quietly into the night, and W bids 4 !H to show partner that they have a long fit.
- North, having opened on a few less HCP, with a shape misleading 1 !S, and a hand full of diamond losers should probably decide to call it a day with 4 !S. BUT, what fun is that, and partner is encouraging. So, they bid 5C showing the Ace.
- East is still trying to buy the hand and bids 5 !H
- South, now "knowing" that they have a 9 card fit, no heart or club losers, and at least the top 2 diamonds, bids 6 !S. I believe this is a reasonable conclusion.
- East doesn't believe a word of it and adventurously doubles that 6 !S with every remaining point in their hand. (I should say that I disagree with the double. P has nothing but long hearts which helps nothing in defense. It appears the ops have top clubs covered so singleton lead does not help. not having the ace of hearts, and ops not afraid of hearts, that looks like a dead end. If the spade honors are split between the ops hands, and you having given away that you hold all the spades, I think you could be looking at nothing more than your Ace of trumps as a trick)
- Unfortunately, the contract can't be made and is down 2 on the lead of King of !H, and, perhaps not thinking through the full implications of the bidding, declarer actually goes down 5 for 1100! giving ACOL a huge bump of 14 IMPs to start. (even though ACOL went down 2 in 3NT on the other side). So the swing here is probably a cool 25 IMP (should be 520 to IAC).
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The bidding might go:
1C -(surely X)- 1S(!) (not up the line even though its a GF hand. 1S takes up the responding space for ops, and I'm worried we might lose the spades if I start 1D [see the other table]!)
Now, if West can bid with this weak hand and 6 hearts without getting too high, then they will. 2H might be ops overcall - but how does p interpret this, points or no?)
North will bid 3H, cue bid, showing a good spade raise. (I don't count on east bidding 4h assuming they know the jump is weak)
South might be tempted here, but its a flatish hand and the spades are crummy. but lets say they want to check and they don't have non-serious 3nt to use and they bid 4C instead.
At this point, north has no diamond stopped and it looks like that is guaranteed to be in East's hand. I think North bails in 4S (but I could be convinced that 4H might be in order showing hearts controlled but no diamonds control - we can argue whether that should be done and Todd can tell us about Last Train issues, etc).
so 1C-(X)- 1S - (2H)
3H- p - 4C - p
4S. p p p
This is the PAR contract, making 10 tricks.
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What happens if we bid diamonds first?
1C- (X) - 1D - (2H)
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Difficult situation now for opener. In this scenario, original openers 1S is looking a lot better than before!
2S is looking like a reverse, so that is out
3C? probably shows 6 and a stronger hand
3D - this looks reasonable
3H - cue bid raise, is probably too strong for this hand, but I could be convinced of it because the void is so helpful.
3H - p -??
extra stuff in hand, and south knows they have GF values. 3S might not be out of the question, hoping it doesn't look like cue bid in diamonds. new suit here is forcing.
now p can find the hidden spade fit!! 4 !S and Voila! I'm probably dreaming about how this would go. :)
1C- (X) - 1D - (2H)
3H - p - 3S - p
4S p p p
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Finally, note that on the ACOL team, they had the same dilemma of a take out X and a heart bid, and they decided on a jump to 3nt. They lost the spades fit, but its a reasonable bid, however it goes down at least 1 (2 on our table)
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Thanks Jack and Joe that both analyzed some boards, I put them as well as Colin's in the same 2022 05 folder of https://tinyurl.com/mrycy7fz (https://tinyurl.com/mrycy7fz)
:)