scarletv, on 2015-January-29, 02:43, said:
Will you give up any convention when you misbid once? Do you argue the same way after misbidding Ghestem or any other convention? My p and I play the same convention but in this special board she just panicked having a void. I don't remember misbidding Minorwood with her before and we are playing it since a couple of years though we are obviously playing it different to what has been discussed in this forum and of course it could still be improved.
Due to a combination of external circumstances we are short in playing practice over the last two years which is the main reason for this accident. Unless the circumstances will change we will certainly not increase the complexity in our system as complexity needs exercise.
You feel offended, but with your last paragraph you basically confirm what I said. Note that I didn't say you guys are too stupid or gave any reason
why, but you actually did. You're short in playing practice which apparently makes this convention too difficult. So imo there are several solutions to avoid similar disasters: either you play more together, or you ditch complicated parts of the system. There's no shame in that.
I have a really good partner with whom I play just a couple of times a year. We play strong
♣ but a very simple version of it. It's definitely not optimal (wrongsiding for example), but we don't have bidding mistakes. Many times we discussed if our 1
♣ structure should be updated, but we always come to the conclusion that it would just cause more problems than it would solve. Does it make us a better pair playing less-optimal methods? Looking at our results (some wins, some podiums) I'd say definitely!
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