halle1@houxz.UUCP (07/22/83)
What is your favorite 2D opening, and why? Why is perhaps more important than what. Which do you feel is most effective, whether or not you play it. I would like to see opinions, as I really don't know which of the many I like best. Some of the possibilities are: Weak two, Flannery, Romex, Roman, Precision, Multicolor, ACOL, Superstrong (ie bigger than 2C), Schenken, and I'm sure many others. Please post or mail to me and I'll summarize replies. Jeff Halle houxz!halle1
rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) (07/25/83)
My partner and I play sometimes Precision and sometimes hacked-up standard. Usually, 2D is not natural, however (as C.C. Wei might say, 2D as a pre-empt is no one's idea of a nuclear weapon). If you learn all of the sequences over a straight-Precision 2D, it can be a very powerful bid. In one tourney, I shaded values and opened it, and the opponents (even after hearing what kind of hand I had) entered the bidding and bought the contract (the farm came later). Our 2D promises 1 or zero diamonds and 444 or 435 or 345 in the other suits (or 445). My partner led his Ace of Diamonds, I discarded, and he gave me a Diamond ruff. That was fun. There is a really good book on the system by Terence Reese. I recommend it highly. -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins) genrad!mit-eddie!rh or... rh@mit-ee (via mit-mc)