BATHURST Bridge Club recently hosted a weekend devoted to assisting potential and current directors.
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The director is responsible for overseeing the session. They select a suitable movement and attend to calls and provide the results.
Tournament director Doreen Kjeldsen invited Sydney-based director John McIlrath to run the training days.
Saturday was devoted to new directors. John spent time explaining the laws, particularly in relation to bids, calls and leads out of turn, revokes, insufficient bids and penalty cards. If an infraction occurs it falls to the director to restore equity.
We are fortunate in Bathurst to have about half a dozen potential new directors.
The Sunday session was spent with current directors, refreshing knowledge and training in the new computer program we are adopting. The program is called CompScore2 and it will prove to be superior to our previous program although we will inevitably have the odd hiccup in the transition.
On other bridge matters an interesting hand came up recently [declare was South, both sides vulnerable].
- North: S 83, H KQ7432, D 43, C 765
- East: S KJ752, H -, D AJ86, C KQ32
- South: S A6, H AJ1096, D K95, C 984
- West: S Q1094, H 85, D Q1072, C AJ10
After South opens the bidding with 1H what bidding actions do you envisage the other players taking?
Regardless of whether West passes or doubles the current thinking is that North should bid immediately to 4H.
Two of the factors we look at when bidding are points and shape and North certainly has shape! Even though the contract should go off they will only give the opposition 200 points. In addition they have made it difficult for them to find their correct bid.
Had West doubled then it is easier for East to bid to 4S which scores 620 or 650 if they play correctly and get an overtrick.
If West had passed then East has options but may not be sure which one would be most effective.