OPENING BIDS RESPONDING BIDS OPENER’S REBIDS BALANCED HANDS. Bid 3 when partner bids 3 Convert partner’s NT bid (in a transfer sequence) to major. We have used the modern ‘limit’ style, but in traditional SAYC they show 13-15 and 16-18 points respectively. Check with your partner.
Origins SAYC is a bidding system created by the in the 1980s for tournament play. The intent was to offer 'Yellow Card' events in which everyone played the same system, thereby avoiding alerts and misunderstandings. When online duplicate bridge began in the late 1990's, SAYC filled the need for a default convention card. It gained traction on and was later adopted. Ironically, SAYC is more popular today as the de facto system in online pickup games than the carefully standardized sit-down events which the ACBL originally envisioned.
Online adoption has led to grassroots modifications of the system, with some players defining 'SAYC Basic' vs. Officially, the ACBL does not make this distinction. It is also worth noting that SAYC lacks a few conventions that are popular in modern tournaments. Experienced players may consider filling some 'holes' in the system, including (but not limited to):.
A defense to 1NT, such as.
BML is a way to create system notes, via a simple text file, and export it to HTML, LaTeX (which could then be converted to.pdf) and Full Disclosure (Full Disclosure is a way to get your bids alerted automatically while bidding on BBO). I've written before on BBF about BML, in the 'Full Disclosure & Dealer' forum. Now the code is completely rewritten, and since it no longer targets only Full Disclosure, I post about it here. You can read more about the project, download it and try it out yourself,. Here's an example of some BML syntax: #+TITLE: SAYC #+AUTHOR: Kungsgeten #+DESCRIPTION: Natural system with 5+ majors and best minor. 15-17 NT range and weak twos. Introduction SAYC stands for Standard American Yellow Card.
An opening at the 1-level is usually done with 12+ hcp, but not enough for a game force. Here's the opening structure: 1CD 3+ suit, 12+ hcp 1HS 5+ suit, 12+ hcp 1N 15-17 hcp 2C Game forcing or 22-24 balanced 2X Weak 2N 20-21 hcp 3X Preemptive With 3-3 minors, open 1!c. With 4-4 minors, open 1!d. With a 6 card minor and a 5 card major, open with the major unless strong. The NT module Here's the continuations after a 1NT opening: 1N- 2C Stayman 2D No 4 card major 2HS Invitational, 5+ suit 2N Invitational 3CD 5+ suit, game forcing 3HS Smolen 3N To play 2HS 4+ suit 2red Transfer, 5+ major 2S Minor suit Stayman 2N Longer diamonds or equal minor length 3C Longer clubs 2N Invitational 3CD Invitational, 6+ suit 3N To play The 1NT opening may include a 5 card major.
Transfers After a transfer, the following scheme is used: 1N-2D; 2H Transfer accept 2S 5-5 majors, invitational 2N Invitational 3CD Natural game force 3H Invitational, 6+!h 3N To play 3H Super accept 1N-2H; 2S Transfer accept 2N Invitational 3CD Natural game force 3H 5-5 majors, game forcing 3S Invitational, 6+!s 3N To play 3S Super accept Here's the html output: And the.pdf generated from the LaTeX output. Let's assume, correctly, that I am interested.
Let's also assume, maybe correctly, that I am an idiot. By which I mean you should not at all fear that I will be insulted if you explain very simple things to me. I went to the site, and it said I should download Python3. OK, I have a Python book around somewhere, but it's one of those things I may read sometime. I clicked on the Python link and then on the Python3 link. A lot of stuff there, but I found 'Download'.
Download is not an active link, but there are several active links beneath it. For example there is. and Uh huh. I have no idea what this means. Debug information files? I am sitting at a Windows7 with 64 bit technology (I think I said this right).
Maybe this is the right thing to download? Both of them? Just asking, before I do a solo flight that I might regret. How customizable is the BML-to-HTML-or-LaTeX post-processing? Suppose, for instance, I didn't want 4-color suit symbols, or I wanted the rebids only indented half as far, etc. I suppose what I really mean is 'how much Python would a person have to learn to do this' - instead of doing search and replace on the output or something. It's a pretty simple set up.
For example, changing the suit symbols in html is this 7 lines of code: text = matchobj.group(0) text = text.replace('C', '♣') text = text.replace('D', '♦') text = text.replace('H', '♥') text = text.replace('S', '♠') text = text.replace('N', 'NT') return text You just need to change the Spans, or the CSS style sheet. The BSS one is the most complex (the way he's implemented it, you need to understand recursion), but you just want to change the LATEX and HTML and that is very simple.