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Cool Bidding Systems
Check out these bidding systems links:- "Ambra" - write-up based on Garozzo's 2/1 system for the Italian 2000 World Junior Champs; why this structure hasn't dispersed out of Europe yet, I don't know; edited further by Gijs Haarlem; FD file
- An Unassuming Club - Polish with a weak NT; an improved version with Kokish after 1C; survival tree for on-the-fly use; hyperlinked version from Bill Campbell
- "Assiste" - by Romolo Napoletano
- Blue Team Club - Franco's modern rewrite; FD card - or check out a characteristic Austrian version (they just love BTC in Wien)
- Burgay Diamond - strong diamond, 2-way club, orig. 1973 version
- Caroline Club - a canape precision
- Dwururka - transfer opening 4-crd majors but no artificial strong opening, from Boguslaw Pazur (WBF convention card)
- ETM Victory - excellent 5-card major, standardish system from Glen Ashton; warning: Dan-complexity level; a slightly-more-followable condensed write-up, and FD card; a different optimized (strong NT) standard is Sher-Umeno Supernatural, with GF relay;
- F-club - hearty Scanian strong club
- Fantoni-Nunes - mainly from the Vugraph Project's .lin files (updated but not much recently); Gerben's version with a Polish twist
- Garozzo-DuPont - notes from observations of "papi" and "snabu" on OKB; similar to Ambra
- Gauksrelay - Shape/Strength/Control/Spiral scan, yada yada. If you know spiral scan, that's good, because I couldn't translate the prose very well. Have a look!
- "Have Fun with Nothing" - Henryk Mach's brainchild, simple and fun; and don't forget "4-5 or 6", just as much fun, with a little more
- Incision - a micro-precision from Aviv Shahaf
- Janus - 1C is strong balanced or weak unbalanced, while 1D is strong unbalanced or weak balanced; from Fried Weber
- Kokish-Kraft notes - Kokish's own full weak NT system, 300+ pp; posted with express permission of authors
- MAF - by Chiel Verwoest, a master html-artist, and magic acol f***er
- Magic Diamond - strong diamond, medium club, lite openings
- Millenium Club - Polish club (subsets all strong) with transfer responses; just 1C/1D opening modules
- Marston's Moscito 2005 - introductory booklet off of Australian Bridge website
- MOX-NT - attractive writeup (a la Ambra) of optimized 5M system with many strong/weak multi openings
- Neapolitan Club - like Blue Team Club but the original off of which it was based; more explanation; best viewed in Notepad with wordwrap
- Nightmare - or maybe "Kok-mare"; Canadian juniors Grainger-Lavee got the lowdown from Burzarotti in prep for 2005 World Junior Teams and consult science-man Kokish; good detail, about competition too;
- NTC - very fun; Dynamic NT, lots of transfers, relays; from Misho Nedyalkov
- Pamasso (Polski) - std. 1N, rest insane
- Polish Club versions - see what is affecting Polish bridge (alert
regulations in Poland [Polski])
- Balicki-Zmudzinski - their WJ
- Kości - standard with a Precision 2C, played by Pazur-Jagniewski also of UNIA Winkhaus Leszno; try this summary;
- Polish Club (Matula) - the first English text on the Polish club, from 1994
- Strefa - Polish played by Kwiecień-Pszczoła of UNIA Winkhaus Leszno, with optional Brown Sticker openings; a Jassem-Tuszynski writeup
- WJ XXI - a more complex WJ pushed by expert Władysław Izdebski; a must-try for WJ aficionados; handy-dandy summary (in Polish), and constituent articles;
- WJ2000 (Polish Standard) - (webpage) like SAYC for Poland (Polish Club); zipped doc; full detail (FD card)
- WJ2005 - an improvement over WJ2000; summary pdf; more complete FD card than BBO's; my translation has become a book in English; Jassem's website; more from Jassem: yet another odwrotka tweak and his NV treatment of WJ05
- Power Precision - Eugene Hung's great notes from the book by Sontag and Weichsel; FD card;
- Revision Club - good writeup of a precision; 4th edition
- Rigal Precision - from Barry Rigal's excellent book Precision in the '90's
- Roadmap - nice document of a good weak NT system; from Francesco Sallustio
- Roman Club - summarized by Allen Miller; another version from Graz, Austria (a whole club plays it there); Belladonna's 1986 update
- Romex - many very strong openings based on losers and controls
- Shark - very light 1M opening canape, strong club, simple
- Sher-Neill Canape Precision - it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt... then it's just fun
- SPREAD and SCREAM - by Mark Abraham
- Superlambda - Polish forcing pass system; interesting but lacks some interference and relay-break notes;
- SuperPrecision - ... but you can pay 2 old dogs to pretend to make up new tricks (lots of obvious bidding sequences)
- Swan 4.0 and Zebra - weak/strong clubs, detailed write-ups; less daring than Tangerine
- Tangerine Club - 1C = 8-9 bal. or 15+, very fun; the most entertaining original document zipped PostScript(you'll need Ghostview if you don't have it already)
- "Terrorist" Moscito - relays; Bo-Yin's complex write-up; GIB plays this too
- Toad Club -(updated) relay precision from Jim Griffin; FD card
- TOSR
- lost original
html files, here's a good reboot; FD card - Transfer system - from Salvador Assael
- Tres Boof (Todd's writeup) - Moscito relays, forcing pass, 1H fert bid; Todd has added improving tweaks: Dejeuner
- Ultimate Club - A great drug. Has won a Bermuda Bowl without Meckwell or Garadonna!
- Ultra Club - canape with lots of science; FD card
- Vanilla Symmetric Relays - Alan Truscott's notes
- Viking Club - Official website with notes.
- Volmac Precision - incomplete notes; apparently what Garozzo tried to teach Snabu originally in the 80's
- Washington Standard - solid tournament-quality 2/1 system from Steve Robinson; FD card;
- Webertreff - lots of canape, some relays; good competitive agreements; also from F.W. above
More Stuff
- 2H Multi - as 2D, but higher; used by Versace-Lauria and Helgemo; brief write-ups
- Overcall Structure - suggest only when NV; alternate prettier site; or even here;
- Prism Signals - The Dark Side of the Moon signals
- Obvious Shift Principle - carding method from the Granovetters, used by experts
- System details - of top current partnerships; browse to your content; from Ecats
- Rough Two's openings - 4+m and 4M, weak; Ben Cowling has updated the site nicely;
- Crypto-raises - designed to keep at least two (maybe three) of your opponents in the dark
- Jump-Bidding - nice 1990 overview of the development of bidding, by Francesco Sallustio, using the jump-bid to demonstrate what makes a good convention;
- Gazzilli - solves the 16+ HCP 1M openers in standard systems; major component of Garozzo's new Ambra-like systems; the link is one way of playing it
- Robson/Segal's "Partnership Bidding in Bridge" - the best study of competitive bidding; with permission from the authors
- Burgay 1N response structure - Dano used to play (plays?) this with Burgay; emphasis is on showing shape, setting suit for cue-bidding
- Chris Ryall's Acol description - good snapshot of the current state of Acol and its handling for non-Acol players
- Equality - from Misho Nedyalkov and Ben Riddles; handling competitive auctions in a better way
- ACBL Mid-Chart defense database - ACBL requires downloading and presenting these defenses for opponents to peruse
- Kantar's Roman Keycard system - from the html pages that once were up; most of the modules are independent so can be added to taste
- 2-bid structure - two-level scheme with one-level accuracy
- All systems - from 1995, all systems analyzed for 'aggressiveness'; summaries of openings too; really interesting and inclusive
- Basic Italian cue-bidding methods - from Claudio Petroncini; does not include Turbo (described in BTC above);
Cool Bridge Links (in no particular order)
- Bridge Club of Lexington (KY) - my local bridge club;
- Bridge Arkade - great Norwegian site
- Jeff Goldsmith's page
- USA Junior Team article(from Details magazine) - those Americans are oversexed, overpaid, over...
- Brad Coles' page - lots of Australian drugs
- Alex Wagner's superb bridge stories
- Marco Pancotti's... Blue Team Club page ... Milan Bridge Club page - italiano
- Great Bridge Links by Judy Goodwin-Hanson.
- Bridge Forum's systems page (Polish language) - some brown sticker systems
- Mark Abraham's page
- Bridgeplaza, with vugraph and bulletins from some pre-2005 events c/o Gitelman and Gitelwoman
- lots of articles - mirrored by Frank van Wezel
- Polish bridge organization (Polish) - great news, results, things in Polish bridge
- Todd Anderson's page - my college pard (we took OKB 1998 college tourney)
- Ted Muller's page - cute bridge-related cartoons and musings
- Glen Ashton's page
- some free Mike Lawrence articles
- Pics of Nationals - awesome, copious, from Jonathan Steinberg; also pics of other bridge events he attends
- Chris Ryall's page - great index of preemptive two-bid structures!
- The Vugraph Project - Nikos Sarantakos' collection of BBO .lin files from their broadcasts of events all over the world; good for system-watching but no explanations of alerts
- NABC casebooks - good reading for ACBL misdirectors-to-be
- Jari Böling's page - EHAA (rare online writeup), weak NT, J-Moscito
- David Stevenson's bridge page - laws authority, articles
- Claire Martel's site - very enjoyable; including the systems page
- Norberto Bocchi's columns (italiano) - current events; informative and interesting articles; loaded archive; email your bridge questions; fun article
- archived bulletins - lots and lots of archived bulletins from tournaments; the NABC's
- Larry Cohen articles - and homepage
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