I was using Chrome last night when I attended your talk. I clicked on the link Sanya sent. No audio. Later, someone else sent me a message asking if I had audio and I said no. He (or she) didn't have it either so thre were two of us at least. I have the latest Flash.
These things seems to vary in unpredictable ways. I used to happily use Firefox. But the online version of BBO does not seem to work well with Firefox, at least not on my computer (Dell computer on Windows 10) . So I have been using Chrome more. Now there is a new issue. Yahoo seems to be very resourceful in inserting itself. As of today, when I open a new tab it announces itself to be New Tab by Yahoo. I had learned how to banish Yahoo on Firefox, I have not yet figured out how to do it on Chrome. I generally distrust any application, or whatever it is called, that does things that I had never, to my knowledge, asked it to do. Ok, probably I clicked something, but I did not intend to. Yahoo is at the top of my list of programs that seem to make choices for me, I don't like that, so I banish it whenever I can.
Anyway, back to bridge. Precision and I are probably incompatible, some marriages just don't work, but I would very much enjoy the opportunity to play against it more often than I do. This club seems like a good place for it to happen. And for chat.
I know you advocated keeping 1D-(2D) as Michaels but do any play it like a weak jump overcall? There is no jump of course, but something like KQTxxx with a bit outside. With a serious overcall, such as KQTxxx and a decent amount outside, one can afford to wait a round and come in with diamonds later if it still seems right. My thinking for an immediate 2D on the WJO sort of hand goes like this. The 1D is on a hand unsuitable for 1NT, wrong shape or wrong count. Fairly often it is wrong shape. Often, not always but often, such a hand then would have quite long or quite short diamonds. Sometimes four diamonds and the wrong range for 1NT, but it often more shapely, either long or short. When opener is long, second hand will seldom have the KQTxxx so this will not arise. When opener is short, then such a six card holding in second hand is a good deal more likely. And, at non-Precision tables, the auction might well begin with 1C, over which the call will be 2D. If it is one of those hands where opener has four diamonds but the wrong count for 1NT, we may still survive if we have a decent six card suit and the four diamonds are on our right.
No doubt this has been thought of by others, and maybe the cost in giving up Michaels is just seen as too high, but it seemed like a sensible idea.
Added: Maybe this depends on how often a hand is opened 1D with short diamonds. Suppose opener has one diamond. If he had five in a major he would open 1M. If he is 4/3 in the majors and has five clubs does he open 2C? If the only time the hand is opened 1D on a stiff is when he is exactly 4=4=1=4 then my thinking is not so good since the case will not arise often. [Ah, I looked it up. Could be longish but weak clubs, so thus no 2C opener.]
