barmar, on 2014-November-02, 04:46, said:
Isn't the goal to come up with a score that represents the skills of the two partnerships? The more tricks you let the computer play, the less the result is related to the players' skills.
Isn't the goal to come up with a score that represents the true result? The less tricks the players play, the bigger chance for Ave.
barmar, on 2014-November-02, 04:46, said:
We chose 8 as a reasonable compromise, based on decades of experience by expert bridge players like Fred and Uday. The majority of hands can be claimed when there are only 4-5 tricks left, so there's often not too much skill involved in playing those last few tricks.
OK. Fred and Uday are well known experts, but I think
it is just rhetoric (using big names to justify something)
And in fact you can make easily a major mistake playing in that 4-5 tricks left ending so it is not an argument for me.
Skill involved in playing is always major factor. But I just ask to help in avoiding such terrible facts as in my case - and I can not see anything that could spoil something.
Just show me the case when my vision of 1 Trick Rule is worse than 8 Trick rule.