[Phil]

At my first sectional tournament (Shelby, MT, 1980), I devised the "Shelby 2♦" which showed a minimum opening bid and 4♦ + 5♣.

Strangely, it never caught on.

Later that year, I also developed a method over NTs:

double = penalty
2♣ = one suiter
2♦ = majors
2M = M + a minor

I didn't think it had that much promise, but my regular partner played it in the Billings Regional against Fred Hamilton who thought it was a neat idea.

[daveharty]

han, on 2012-September-06, 11:21, said:

<good stuff>

The fact that Han's post came out of the wreckage of this thread makes me want to go buy a puppy for a sick kid and then give everybody a cookie.

[JLOGIC]

I no longer know who is being trolled and who is doing the trolling

[Antrax]

A bit of both.
I'm sad to say I don't understand Phil's post. I managed to peel one layer of meaning off it thanks to playing with GIB, but I still don't get the joke

[Free]

nvm

[32519]

Hey guys (and gals), I'm still waiting for one of you to arrange an invite for me to this years "Secret Bridge Olympics." Time is running out for me to translate my contribution into four different languages as required.
So far I can contribute this -
1. Defence to MOSCITO
2. New Multi (Revisited and re-engineered)
3. Bidding 6/4 major suit holdings 10-15 HCP
4. Minorwood continuations after a 3m preempt

[billw55]

It already happened, you missed it.

[manudude03]

I still don't get what this Secret Bridge Olympics is about, google only returns 6 hits with that exact phrase, the first 5 being the BBO forums. If it really did exist, I wouldn't mind testing out my version of Jacoby 2N (though right now, I'd settle for a link!)

[ArtK78]

manudude03, on 2013-May-20, 07:49, said:

I still don't get what this Secret Bridge Olympics is about, google only returns 6 hits with that exact phrase, the first 5 being the BBO forums. If it really did exist, I wouldn't mind testing out my version of Jacoby 2N (though right now, I'd settle for a link!)

It is a secret.

[32519]

Forgot about this contribution for the SBO:

5. Alternate defence to a 1NT opener by the opponents

Now all I need is the invite! Getting to participate is only upon invitation from someone who has already been invited.

[the hog]

32519, on 2013-May-20, 06:00, said:

Hey guys (and gals), I'm still waiting for one of you to arrange an invite for me to this years "Secret Bridge Olympics." Time is running out for me to translate my contribution into four different languages as required.
So far I can contribute this -
1. Defence to MOSCITO
2. New Multi (Revisited and re-engineered)
3. Bidding 6/4 major suit holdings 10-15 HCP
4. Minorwood continuations after a 3m preempt

Sorry, but this happened two weeks ago. It was a good event and I enjoyed playing in it.

[32519]

the hog, on 2013-May-21, 01:52, said:

Sorry, but this happened two weeks ago. It was a good event and I enjoyed playing in it.

Share with us some of the new stuff that was tested; what got a 3-star rating (accept), a 2-star rating (can work but needs more thought), and a 1-star rating (reject, no good). The 3-star ratings are what we really want to know. This is the stuff that we will soon all be encountering at the table.

By the way: Where did this year's tournament take place? My guess is the USA. Then where in the USA?

[the hog]

I can't tell you because it was the SECRET Bridge Olympics. If I told you it would not be a secret, would it?

[32519]

the hog, on 2013-May-21, 04:25, said:

I can't tell you because it was the SECRET Bridge Olympics. If I told you it would not be a secret, would it?

Once the tournament is over the new conventions etc that passed the test get published. So it’s not them that are secret. It’s the tournament itself that is secret! The WBF is the first stop for getting this stuff published. I’m not sure where they publish it, but if they are linked to “The Bridge World,” that could be the most logical point of first publication. Only the subscribers have access to it which includes topics such as “Bridge Theory” and “What’s New in Bridge.”

As these new ideas start seeping out, lesser mortals eventually make acquaintance with them. The top class players (those who attended the tournament) would already be using the stuff they liked. Consequently they stay ahead of the chasing pack.

[Vampyr]

I have had it with the Secret Bridge Olympics; they seem to be getting more and more political.

My own contribution of a 2♠ opening showing 5-10 HCP, 4+ spades and any other suit of 5+ cards received a 1, and I remain convinced that the hands constructed to highlight the convention were biased. Meanwhile, a convention that involved using 2♦, 2♥ and 2♠ openings each as a variant of Flannery received a 3. I do not regard it as a coincidence that this latter convention is legal on the ACBL GCC while mine is not.

[32519]

Vampyr, on 2013-May-21, 08:39, said:

I have had it with the Secret Bridge Olympics; they seem to be getting more and more political.

My own contribution of a 2♠ opening showing 5-10 HCP, 4+ spades and any other suit of 5+ cards received a 1, and I remain convinced that the hands constructed to highlight the convention were biased. Meanwhile, a convention that involved using 2♦, 2♥ and 2♠ openings each as a variant of Flannery received a 3. I do not regard it as a coincidence that this latter convention is legal on the ACBL GCC while mine is not.

This is seriously encouraging (for me that is). My being able to show a 6/4 holding in the majors where the 6-card suit can be either ♥ or ♠, 10-15 HCP, is a Flannery variant. Maybe I just need to shout louder and someone will hear.

[manudude03]

Play that convention if you want, it's like Flannery without the advantages.

[Free]

If I'd invite you, I'd have to kill you.

[mycroft]

I brought in my version of "pre-accepted transfer overcalls" as a defence to NT. People said it wasn't original, but did give it high marks for unexpectedness.

[the hog]

mycroft, on 2013-May-21, 15:16, said:

I brought in my version of "pre-accepted transfer overcalls" as a defence to NT. People said it wasn't original, but did give it high marks for unexpectedness.

We discussed this two weeks ago when we played, but Balicki, (whoops, I should not have mentioned names), said this was used in Poland many years ago, so we discarded it.
Vampyr, I can assure you that we looked at your 2S convention carefully. The hands to demonstrate it were not artificially biased, but were genuine. I am a little insulted that you claim we were political.