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Don't need many so honors to overcall #13

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jyutzler opened this issue Mar 6, 2013 · 2 comments
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Don't need many so honors to overcall #13

jyutzler opened this issue Mar 6, 2013 · 2 comments
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jyutzler commented Mar 6, 2013

In competitive.py, line 103 there is a shared implied constraint of 3 of top 5 honors for a suited overcall. This is bogus and causes problems with hands like:

http://www.saycbridge.com/bid/11-93875b35e6c6ca629d2c4383dc:P,1D,P,P,1H,1S,1N,P,P,P

There is no way this should be passed out by either north or south as the autobidder suggests. A sixth trump is every bit as good as another honor. Maybe the rule should be 3 of 5 or 2 of 3 with 5, or any 6+ that isn't already a preempt? Unfortunately I don't understand the engine enough to know how to code that.

North going to 1NT over west's raise to 1S is intriguing. It seems like the kind of bid only a computer could make but it seems to work well here (-50 vs. -80).

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On the flip side, here West overcalls with AQxx.
http://www.saycbridge.com/bid/14-33a1d79a51ebac20f0a4547e37:P,1D,1S,P,4S,5D,P,P,P
I do not believe this is consistent with SAYC.

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