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Human Declares Human dummy gets to declare

#41 User is offline   xeno123 

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Posted 2012-August-31, 10:50

 SimonFa, on 2012-August-31, 08:53, said:

Can we also have it when practicing with 3 Robots, please? :D


Please!
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Posted 2012-August-31, 13:59

In principle, I like it. One thing that caught me out was that the ops bids are swapped when playing the N hand in the S position. Example - My RHO opened 3♥ and N declared 4S. I got disoriented when the long ♥ suit appeared on my left when declaring.
Is it possible to have the human play the N hand without switching the view around?
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Posted 2012-August-31, 17:18

Yeah, that same issue was raised a couple of weeks ago in this thread. At the time I said I thought it would be more confusing for the human to declare from the north. But I played a few tourneys this morning, and I agree that I lost track of which opponent had what from the bidding.

I suspect this may be "damned if we do, damned if we don't".

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Posted 2012-September-02, 15:16

Now how about also doing away with South having the most HCP at the table? I don't like the extra information about the opponents hands that results from that, and I'd rather defend a little more often. I'll still get to declare for partner, so I'll declare twice as often as I do when playing against humans. That's plenty.
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Posted 2012-September-02, 15:58

And it would be nice to be able to preempt occasionally. :)

Although now at least we get to play when partner preempts.

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Posted 2012-September-02, 20:50

 barmar, on 2012-September-02, 15:58, said:

And it would be nice to be able to preempt occasionally. :)

Although now at least we get to play when partner preempts.


Maybe this best hand stuff is all a conspiracy to prevent people from exploiting GIB's gullibility by psyching and wildly preempting!

Or not, but it's an added plus[/minus] I suppose.
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Posted 2012-September-04, 11:07

"Another Bridge Program" puts up a big clickthrough notice when it's about to rotate the table so you declare. You're probably already doing something like this; but it seems to make it less likely (not, by any means, impossible!) that I will forget to swap defenders in my mind after that notice.
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Posted 2012-September-04, 21:34

 mycroft, on 2012-September-04, 11:07, said:

"Another Bridge Program" puts up a big clickthrough notice when it's about to rotate the table so you declare. You're probably already doing something like this; but it seems to make it less likely (not, by any means, impossible!) that I will forget to swap defenders in my mind after that notice.
We do get a big clickthrough notice when it's about to rotate the table, but I still remember that RHO preempted and I have to check and double-check the auction mid-hand to confirm that RHO is now LHO.
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Posted 2012-September-04, 22:29

Is it so bad to leave the hands where they are? The only downside is if you forget which hand the opponents cannot see, which may change your play.
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Posted 2012-September-08, 01:51

 Quantumcat, on 2012-September-04, 22:29, said:

Is it so bad to leave the hands where they are? The only downside is if you forget which hand the opponents cannot see, which may change your play.


Well done for increasing the time limit. I came under time pressure a couple of times when GIB hogged the bidding and I played 3 or 4 hands as North.

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