On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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> Assume a distribution which will make your hopeless contract
> possible(S.
> J. Simon in "Why You Lose
> at Bridge"; paraphrased from memory
You left out a two important caveats, which I'm sure Simon must have included: never at match-point scoring unless everybody else figures to be in a makeable contract; and at rubber or IMP scoring only when the indicated line doesn't involve a high probability of expensive additional undertricks.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos