Bridge Winners Profile for Michael Bodell
Basic Information
- Member Since
- July 29, 2010
- Last Seen
- 5 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Project Manager of Silicon Valley Youth Bridge (SiVY)
Bridge Information
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Real success in limited national events (1st NAP C, 2nd 0-1500 LM Pairs, 3/4 GNT B, 4th 0-5000 Blue Ribbons) and limited success in real national events (11th national 2-day swiss, 22nd mixed swiss, 22nd 3-day swiss, 26th fast pairs, and other low overalls)
- BBO Username
- MBodell
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
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- Who Will Direct the Directors?
- I don't know what the right answer is, but at some point it is likely to be more confusing than helpful. Like if something is 99.9% 5+ cards but 0.1% 3 or 4 cards if you describe it as 3+ cards you maybe confusing more than helping ...
- AI, Contract Bridge, Conventional Bidding. A casual update.
- I have little doubt that if sufficient effort were focused on bridge AI there would be success. But it is much harder to get past constructive bidding to include competitive bidding, the play, and interplay between giving away information to the opponents in the bidding and play. In a purely ...
- WBF accepted proposal for proving honesty of organization
- The first sentence in the Wikipedia definition of digital divide is: "The term digital divide describes a gap in terms of access to and usage of information and communication technology. It was traditionally considered to be a question of having or not having access, but with a global mobile phone ...
- WBF accepted proposal for proving honesty of organization
- These days not having access to the internet is roughly similar to saying not having access to electricity or a computer. It should be fair to assume people have access to internet in most situations.
- San Diego NABC Appeals Casebook with commentary available online
- I don't think Kit's last post's recommendation is consistent with current practices and policies. That is to say that one is required to always ask, in other words that every alert should really be an announce because the next player should always be asking, just isn't ...
- San Diego NABC Appeals Casebook with commentary available online
- With some partners I play transfer positive where 2♦ shows 5+♥ and then 3♥ would suggest 6+ cards (or maybe a very good 5 - impossible on this hand), so the timing of the ask "not caring" over the 2♦ but caring over 3♥ (because if ...
- WBF accepted proposal for proving honesty of organization
- Note vulnerability could also play a role in later hands being "exciting" if we always start with board one and no vulnerable but end with all red.
- 1S 2S 2NT
- I personally really like defining the raise in terms of accepting at least one try, it is much better working definition than constructive meaning 8 hcp.
- A Junior's Perspective on Promoting Bridge
- There are also games nearly every week night, although some may be for more experienced players than for the newer players (we obviously have youth who would fit in either category now), and night games on a school night go to at least 10 pm or later and might not ...
- A Junior's Perspective on Promoting Bridge
- The other side benefit of mini-bridge style points, even though I agree that early teaching of 4/3/2/1 points might be non-ideal, is that players can develop tracking opponents points too. If you know what everyone's point count was an west had 9 and east had 5 ...
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