[barmar]

 Cascade, on 2014-December-08, 23:55, said:

I suspect that "just bridge" is in Meckwell's lexicon.

Yeah, they understand it when the opponents say it. But they probably rarely use it in their own explanations (although I expect that low-level competitive actions are not very far off).

[mycroft]

I've seen their SS - they're actually pretty short, given their system notes, as it effectively is the opening call and responses and the odd second round pointers. Which makes sense, as I'll "never" need to prepare for anything after that, and they'll explain it all as I need it.

But: full card and SS - say what's required for any WBF Open event - I bet that 5-10% of players *could* do that without extensive coaching (given that several open events' cards from real Open Teams with real Coaches were *clearly* insufficient (we're getting better there, I guess there was a crackdown), I might be overestimating).

The ACBL card is clearly insufficient and inflexible, however.

[blackshoe]

 mycroft, on 2014-December-09, 11:16, said:

The ACBL card is clearly insufficient and inflexible, however.

There are times when I think the ACBL card was deliberately designed to try to force people to play Standard American.

[Bbradley62]

I think the ACBL card was designed when virtually no one played anything except Standard American. Has it changed (much) since the 1960s? (I know it hasn't since 1982.)

[blackshoe]

 Bbradley62, on 2014-December-09, 14:58, said:

I think the ACBL card was designed when virtually no one played anything except Standard American. Has it changed (much) since the 1960s? (I know it hasn't since 1982.)

Well then it's time the ACBL get off its dead ass and find someone competent to design a new card. Or adopt someone else's.