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When I watch a sport/game, I don't want to know the outcome in advance. For me, it takes away from the excitement to be told that there is a makeable game in 4S on a finesse. Or that this cannot make, because of the bad trump split.
When I kibitz a tournament on Vugraph, I only look at one player's cards. I ignore the expert commentary, if they are giving away too much about the hand.
I think about the decisions that one player has to make. It's interesting that any hand usually has various bidding options. What one seems best for this situation?
I do change seats occaionally. For instance, to see the play in a slam from declarer's viewpoint.
My ideal BBO expert commentary would be one that looked over one player's shoulder and tried to get inside his mind. That showed me how to count the cards. That found the best defence.
I just saw a swindle by an Italian expert at a table I was kibitzing. I would jump out of my seat with excitement if any expert could have predicted that play.
A wishlist for vugraph comments ?
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Posted 2005-March-10, 23:26
Peter . . . . AKQ . . . . K = 3 points = 1 trick
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"Of course wishes everybody to win and play as good as possible, but it is a hobby and a game, not war." 42 (BBO Forums)
"If a man speaks in the forest and there are no women around to hear is he still wrong?" anon
"Politics: an inadequate substitute for bridge." John Maynard Keynes
"This is how Europe works, it dithers, it delays, it makes cowardly small steps towards the truth and at some point that which it has admonished as impossible it embraces as inevitable." Athens University economist Yanis Varoufakis
"Krypt3ia @ Craig, dude, don't even get me started on you. You have posted so far two articles that I and others have found patently clueless. So please, step away from the keyboard before you hurt yourself." Comment on infosecisland.com
"Doing is the real hard part" Emma Coats (formerly from Pixar)
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." Oscar Wilde
"Assessment, far more than religion, has become the opiate of the people" Patricia Broadfoot, Uni of Gloucestershire, UK
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Posted 2005-March-11, 02:25
Walddk, on Mar 10 2005, 11:38 AM, said:
Do you believe me when I tell you that we have a lot to do as it is without having to add even more?
Of course I believe you and let me again thank you for all the good and appreciated work you do for the vugraph !
Alain
Alain
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Posted 2005-April-09, 08:02
My compliments Gerben!
Yesterday I noticed you really did your outmost to explain the features of Burrati/Lanzarotti to the audience.
Yesterday I noticed you really did your outmost to explain the features of Burrati/Lanzarotti to the audience.