[kenberg]

I see that there are ten. Put me on the waiting list . This is a very kind offer.

[kfay]

Yes I think a lot of people would appreciate it if you could post a thread or a google doc with the analyses.

Maybe you'll even get a book offer :-)

[Hanoi5]

I'd buy the book, but if you post it it'll be cheaper.

[MFA]

Nice project!

[gnasher]

This seems an extraordinarily generous offer.

Still, I'm glad that I didn't read this thread until it was too late to participate - I'm not sure that I could face 100 boards of trying to bid in a way that Justin considers normal.

PS: Will the rest of us be allowed to nitpick your analysis?

[wyman]

kfay, on Dec 12 2009, 02:04 PM, said:

Yes I think a lot of people would appreciate it if you could post a thread or a google doc with the analyses.

Maybe you'll even get a book offer :-)

+1.

This would be extraordinarily helpful to the whole community. This is an extremely kind offer, and kudos to you for doing it.

[Phil]

wyman, on Dec 12 2009, 06:11 PM, said:

kfay, on Dec 12 2009, 02:04 PM, said:

Yes I think a lot of people would appreciate it if you could post a thread or a google doc with the analyses.

Maybe you'll even get a book offer :-)

+1.

This would be extraordinarily helpful to the whole community. This is an extremely kind offer, and kudos to you for doing it.

Agree - there are ten very fortunate players here, and the skill level varies a lot, so I expect there will be some variety.

I would suggest Justin picks a few of his favorites from the 100, and posts them here - with perhaps leaving the contributor's name off the analysis.

[bd71]

Seems unlikely, but...if any of the Top 10 choose to opt out, I'd love to be on the waiting list as well.

[Jlall]

I was not planning on posting any of the hands. I don't want to make the people involved feel uncomfortable or like their mistakes are on display. Even if I leave out the names, you have a list of 10 people and using myhands it could be easy to figure out who did what.

[Phil]

Jlall, on Dec 13 2009, 12:03 AM, said:

I was not planning on posting any of the hands. I don't want to make the people involved feel uncomfortable or like their mistakes are on display. Even if I leave out the names, you have a list of 10 people and using myhands it could be easy to figure out who did what.

Not if you wait a week or two. I suppose with BB could dredge them up, but that seems like a lot of work.

[PeterGill]

Justin, perhaps if any of the lucky ten offer for you to post all or some of their hands on this forum or on your bridge blog, that would be great for those of us who like reading what you write.

And well done in San Diego too - two 2nds in major Nationals against the world's best = good stuff.

[Jlall]

Thx Peter.

Yeah I think I will just leave it up to the people if they want to post any/all of their hands + what I said I am totally fine with that. Really I just want to help the 10 who signed up, there is not really anything attached other than that, and it's not a self promotion thing for me. I really don't want people to be nervous or overwhelmed feeling like their mistakes are in the limelight.

So, just for the record, I am totally fine if anyone participating in this posts my thoughts, and if you rather wouldn't that is fine, I will not show anyone.

Also, Gnasher and others, if hands get posted with my thoughts on them I would be happy for you guys to critique/discuss my comments! Would be kind of cool for me actually. I am obv fallible and might well miss some stuff. Again this is not supposed to be about self promotion/ego boosting for me, or writing a book, or anything like that, and I am happy for it to be discussed if you think I am wrong/have made an error. Will be good for my game!

And lol at the thought of 100 hands bid my way! I used to play in teaching tables and bid all 4 hands objectively with what I thought the right sequences were. It was pretty funny to get a taste of my own medicine! Only thing scarier would be 100 hands bid kenrexford style imo

[bluecalm]

It too late to apply for me but I just want to say that it would be really great if you publish the analysis here in this thread

[mikeh]

Just read the thread, and want to add my appreciation for what Justin is doing....and to encourage some of the 10 to permit Justin to post (with names stripped out). Or post the critique themselves (using another login name created for the purpose if they want to preserve anonymity).

This is very generous of Justin.....doing this kind of analysis takes time...altho I suspect Justin is far faster than most, and probably uses the keyboard faster than people of my generation.

[JanM]

I agree that it would be great if some of these hands could be shared - probably most helpful and perhaps least likely to be negative for those whose hands are being analyzed would be if Justin could choose several hands that illustrate a typical kind of error and post them all in one thread.

[nige1]

Oh dear I see I'm too late but I look forward to the results

[TimG]

I played a couple of MP speedballs yesterday and would like to select 10 hands from those tourneys (eliminating some hands where I was dummy or the opponents did unusual things to affect the result so that Justin's analysis would not be particularly useful to me -- not cherry picking).

Can anyone tell me how to create a file with the 10 selected deals? I played these tourneys using the new web client, so there are no local log files.

[Little Kid]

Maybe you can find them here

[TimG]

I can find them just fine, I'm just not sure how to go about saving them to a single file.

[Little Kid]

Oh right, sorry I misunderstood. I'm not sure how to compile the 10 .lin files into one big file either. You could just rename 10 .lin files TimG1-10 but I guess your way is better if you figure out how that works.