bmh@unc.UUCP (08/12/83)
I started playing bridge seriously a few months ago and am now looking for a *good* bidding system. I would be interested in hearing from people about their favorite bidding systems, whether it's well known or home-grown. So far I have only been able to find (1) books on introductory bridge (describing 5 card major bidding) and (2) a reference on the Precision bidding system entitled "Precision and Superprecision Bidding" by Giorgio Belloadonna and Benito Garozzo. This book describes in detail their version of C. C. Wei's Precision system and also their 'high-level' Super-Precision system. The Precision system appears to be the sort of way one should go in order to maximize bidding information communicated between partners. However, I see little hope that I can easily pick up the Precision bidding system. At least as described by Belloadonna and Garozzo, it seems that you must memorize what amounts to something like an n-ary tree with n averaging around 8 (i.e. for each bid you are choosing from an average of around 8 choices). Perhaps there is a better book describing the system more generally. It would be much easier to remember general conventions, like a bid of a new suit after a suit has been settled on => a cue bid, etc. At any rate what I would like to hear about is systems that communicate large amounts of information between partners but which I can learn in a several weeks of practice/play. (maybe I can learn Precision or some subset in this amount of time). So if you have good references to bridge bidding theory (including your own great systems) please mail me. If there is a large response I will summarize to the net. Brad Hemminger duke!unc!bmh