[Fluffy]

The teams final in the Cuba Bridge Festival 2013 saw team Northwend composed of 4 norwegian players from Stavanger imposing over team Juan Valdes from Colombia/Spain.

The most instructive hand of the final is this one:

Click here to play the hand

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[wank]

i hope you have 2 passports - it's a little tricky getting to an ACBL nationals with any exotic passport stamps

[Fluffy]

I am checking my passport and I see no stamp from cuba, I had a paper attached with the visa while I was there, but maybe inmigration removed it when I left?, if there is trouble entering USA I would bet a country who has 60% of its earnings from tourism will take care of that.

[Antrax]

Your computer screwed me I tried playing like this:

Spoiler

Duck ♣K, finesse on the second round when W persists. ♦ to Q, holds.
Now I wanted to play ♦K so I can either ruff a diamond in dummy or have the ♠A as an entry to the ♣A if W draws trumps, but couldn't.

[Fluffy]

I see it, thanks a lot, there is a bug somewhere, if you had played ♦K instead of the queen it would 'allow' you (it would play ♦8 instead*). But I have a bug with the aliases and the program doesn't take ♦KQ totally equally although it should.

BTW on the position you reached all you had to do is play ♦8 instead of the King for the same result, anyway, you found the only winning line, so well done.


*To cut of the decision tree with almost identical positions I sometimes force a similar play when you try another, to avoid duplicating limbs.

[Cyberyeti]

I posted comment on your site, also got line right, but defence did something odd.

[Fluffy]

yup gotta check that third position play, thanks for the notification (is notification the correct word?)

[Antrax]

I think "notice", "note" or "heads up" are more common, but I'm not a native speaker.

[Cyberyeti]

Antrax, on 2013-November-28, 00:29, said:

I think "notice", "note" or "heads up" are more common, but I'm not a native speaker.

not notice, heads up is probably the colloquial version.

[Zelandakh]

I would think the more common form here is "Thanks for letting me know."