Daniel's Systems Page
*Announcement* 
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Thanks,
Dan
Systems Links
Check out these bidding systems links:
- "Ambra" - write-up based on Garozzo's 2/1 system for the Italian 2000 World Junior Champs; why this structure hasn't dispersed out of Europe yet, I don't know; FD file
- An Unassuming Club - Polish with a weak NT; an improved version with Kokish after 1C; survival tree for on-the-fly use
- "Assiste" - by Romolo Napoletano
- Blue Team Club - Franco's modern rewrite; FD card - or check out a characteristic Austrian version (they just love BTC in Wien)
- Burgay Diamond - strong diamond, 2-way club, orig. 1973 version
- Caroline Club - a canape precision
- Dwururka - transfer opening 4-crd majors but no artificial strong opening, from Boguslaw Pazur (WBF convention card)
- ETM Victory - excellent 5-card major, standardish system from Glen Ashton; warning: Dan-complexity level; a slightly-more-followable condensed write-up, and FD card; a different optimized (strong NT) standard is Sher-Umeno Supernatural, with GF relay;
- F-club - hearty Scanian strong club
- Fantoni-Nunes - mainly from the Vugraph Project's .lin files (updated but not much recently); Gerben's version with a Polish twist
- Garozzo-DuPont - notes from observations of "papi" and "snabu" on OKB; similar to Ambra
- Gauksrelay - Shape/Strength/Control/Spiral scan, yada yada. If you know spiral scan, that's good, because I couldn't translate the prose very well. Have a look!
- "Have Fun with Nothing" - Henryk Mach's brainchild, simple and fun; and don't forget "4-5 or 6", just as much fun, with a little more
- Incision - a micro-precision from Aviv Shahaf
- Janus - 1C is strong balanced or weak unbalanced, while 1D is strong unbalanced or weak balanced; from Fried Weber
- MAF - by Chiel Verwoest, a master html-artist, and magic acol f***er
- Magic Diamond - strong diamond, medium club, lite openings
- Millenium Club - Polish club (subsets all strong) with transfer responses; just 1C/1D opening modules
- Marston's Moscito 2005 - introductory booklet off of Australian Bridge website
- Neapolitan Club - like Blue Team Club but the original off of which it was based; more explanation; best viewed in Notepad with wordwrap
- Nightmare - or maybe "Kok-mare"; Canadian juniors Grainger-Lavee got the lowdown from Burzarotti in prep for 2005 World Junior Teams and consult science-man Kokish; good detail, about competition too;
- NTC - very fun; Dynamic NT, lots of transfers, relays; from Misho Nedyalkov
- Pamasso (Polski) - std. 1N, rest insane
- Polish Club versions - see what is affecting Polish bridge (alert regulations in Poland [Polski])
- Power Precision - Eugene Hung's great notes from the book by Sontag and Weichsel; FD card
- Revision Club - good writeup of a precision; 4th edition
- Rigal Precision - from Barry Rigal's excellent book Precision in the '90's
- Roadmap - nice document of a good weak NT system; from Francesco Sallustio
- Roman Club - summarized by Allen Miller; another version from Graz, Austria (a whole club plays it there); Belladonna's 1986 update
- Romex - many very strong openings based on losers and controls
- Shark - very light 1M opening canape, strong club, simple
- Sher-Neill Canape Precision - it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt... then it's just fun
- SPREAD and SCREAM - by Mark Abraham
- Superlambda - Polish forcing pass system; interesting but lacks some interference and relay-break notes;
- SuperPrecision - ... but you can pay 2 old dogs to pretend to make up new tricks (lots of obvious bidding sequences)
- Swan 4.0 and Zebra - weak/strong clubs, detailed write-ups; less daring than Tangerine
- Tangerine Club - 1C = 8-9 bal. or 15+, very fun; the most entertaining original document zipped PostScript(you'll need Ghostview if you don't have it already)
- "Terrorist" Moscito - relays; Bo-Yin's complex write-up; GIB plays this too
- Toad Club - relay precision from Jim Griffin; FD card
- TOSR - Transfer-Oriented Symmetric Relay precision, warped by Josh Sher and myself; see latest tinkers; FD file
- Transfer system - from Salvador Assael
- Tres Boof (Todd's writeup) - Moscito relays, forcing pass, 1H fert bid; Todd has added improving tweaks: Dejeuner
- Ultimate Club - A great drug. Has won a Bermuda Bowl without Meckwell or Garadonna!
- Ultra Club - canape with lots of science; FD card
- Vanilla Symmetric Relays - Alan Truscott's notes
- Viking Club - Official website with notes.
- Volmac Precision - incomplete notes; apparently what Garozzo tried to teach Snabu originally in the 80's
- Washington Standard - solid tournament-quality 2/1 system from Steve Robinson; FD card;
- Webertreff - lots of canape, some relays; good competitive agreements; also from F.W. above
The systems keep coming, blowing your mind, expanding your consciousness, wasting your time. I've worked countless hours on many of these documents in order to speed the diffusion of interesting systems that may not be in English anywhere, or that are only in book form.
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More Stuff
- 2H Multi - as 2D, but higher; used by Versace-Lauria and Helgemo; brief write-ups
- Overcall Structure - suggest only when NV; alternate prettier site; or even here;
- Prism Signals - The Dark Side of the Moon signals
- Obvious Shift Principle - carding method from the Granovetters, used by experts
- System details - of top current partnerships; browse to your content; from Ecats
- Rough Two's openings - 4+m and 4M, weak; Ben Cowling has updated the site nicely;
- Crypto-raises - designed to keep at least two (maybe three) of your opponents in the dark
- Jump-Bidding - nice 1990 overview of the development of bidding, by Francesco Sallustio, using the jump-bid to demonstrate what makes a good convention;
- Gazzilli - solves the 16+ HCP 1M openers in standard systems; major component of Garozzo's new Ambra-like systems; the link is one way of playing it
- Robson/Segal's "Partnership Bidding in Bridge" - the best study of competitive bidding; with permission from the authors
- Burgay 1N response structure - Dano used to play (plays?) this with Burgay; emphasis is on showing shape, setting suit for cue-bidding
- Chris Ryall's Acol description - good snapshot of the current state of Acol and its handling for non-Acol players
- Equality - from Misho Nedyalkov and Ben Riddles; handling competitive auctions in a better way
- ACBL Mid-Chart defense database - ACBL requires downloading and presenting these defenses for opponents to peruse
- Kantar's Roman Keycard system - from the html pages that once were up; most of the modules are independent so can be added to taste
- 2-bid structure - two-level scheme with one-level accuracy
- All systems - from 1995, all systems analyzed for 'aggressiveness'; summaries of openings too; really interesting and inclusive
- Basic Italian cue-bidding methods - from Claudio Petroncini; does not include Turbo (described in BTC above);
Cool Bridge Links (in no particular order)
- Bridge Club of Lexington (KY) - my local bridge club;
- Bridge Arkade - great Norwegian site
- Jeff Goldsmith's page
- USA Junior Team article(from Details magazine) - those Americans are oversexed, overpaid, over...
- Brad Coles' page - lots of Australian drugs
- Alex Wagner's superb bridge stories
- Marco Pancotti's... Blue Team Club page ... Milan Bridge Club page - italiano
- Great Bridge Links by Judy Goodwin-Hanson.
- Bridge Forum's systems page (Polish language) - some brown sticker systems
- Mark Abraham's page
- Bridgeplaza, with vugraph and bulletins from some pre-2005 events c/o Gitelman and Gitelwoman
- lots of articles - mirrored by Frank van Wezel
- Polish bridge organization (Polish) - great news, results, things in Polish bridge
- Todd Anderson's page - my college pard (we took OKB 1998 college tourney)
- Glen Ashton's page
- some free Mike Lawrence articles
- Pics of Nationals - awesome, copious, from Jonathan Steinberg; also pics of other bridge events he attends
- Chris Ryall's page - great index of preemptive two-bid structures!
- The Vugraph Project - Nikos Sarantakos' collection of BBO .lin files from their broadcasts of events all over the world; good for system-watching but no explanations of alerts
- NABC casebooks - good reading for ACBL misdirectors-to-be
- Jari Böling's page - EHAA (rare online writeup), weak NT, J-Moscito
- David Stevenson's bridge page - laws authority, articles
- Claire Martel's site - very enjoyable; including the systems page
- Norberto Bocchi's columns (italiano) - current events; informative and interesting articles; loaded archive; email your bridge questions; fun article
- archived bulletins - lots and lots of archived bulletins from tournaments; the NABC's
- Larry Cohen articles - and homepage
Norway wins the 2007 Bermuda Bowl!
Daniel Neill,
neill.dano@gmail.com, June 3, 2009