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Please explain the new honor notation

#1 User is offline   Bbradley62 

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Posted 2014-March-15, 19:39

With GIB v29, the 8421 method of identifying honors in cuebidding sequences has been replaced by something else. Can you please document this new method? In the hand below, the 3♦ bid is explained as showing ♦KQ. Does it mean KQ or A? What do other combinations mean?


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Posted 2014-March-15, 22:21

I think it's the same method but a more human-friendly explanation. You can understand what's going on by converting it to 8421 in your head. In your example, GIB wanted to say 6+ in 8421 and holds 8.
I've already posted in the feedback thread about how I think this does more harm than good, currently. It should at least say something like "A or KQ or better".
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Posted 2014-March-17, 11:52

There's an implicit "or better" in all these explanations. Saying that would make for long explanations, but maybe we could add "+".

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Posted 2014-March-17, 23:39

Is it obvious that an Ace is better than KQJ?
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