Bridge Winners Profile for Rosalind Hengeveld
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- Member Since
- June 20, 2014
- Last Seen
- 5 hours ago
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- Bridge Player
- about me
Website Editor, Bridge Magazine IMP, Netherlands.
Website and newsletter Editor, bid72 – Fit to bid.
My last name ‘Hengeveld’ is pronounced [‘ɦɛŋəvɛlt] or as if ‘heng-a-velt’.
- Country
- Netherlands
Bridge Information
- Bridge Accomplishments
- National champion, women pairs, 2012
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Delftse Bridge Club; Het Buitenhof
- BBO Username
- RosalindH
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- None
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- Tomaz Adamic's bidding problem: 987432 AQ5 A5 AK
- 2NT: 17–20, balanced, may contain a five-card major. This comes closest to selling my hand. I would not care to be in spades unless partner has at least three.
- Highest Opening Bid You've Ever Made or Witnessed?
- 7♠ on ♠ AKQJ87 ♥ AKQJ52 ♦ A ♣ – Holder was afraid (wrongly) that 2♣-2♦-2♠ might be passed, opened an allegedly ‘practical’ 7♠ ‘because the Spades are better than the Hearts’ – and hit a dummy with a void in Spades and four Hearts. Justice was ...
- Criss -cross Inverted Raises
- Yes, 1♦-3♣ as natural, invitational, non-forcing: I played that for a while and it rarely came up. Now I play it as a Mixed Raise in diamonds and that comes up more often.
- Criss -cross Inverted Raises
- 1m-2NT as a very weak raise makes sense for 1♣-2NT, as with values for a natural 2NT you can always find another bid, often an Inverted Raise. 1♦-2NT, however, is needed as natural if you play 1♦-2♣ as game-forcing, namely for a 4♣333 of 5 ...
- Criss -cross Inverted Raises
- Single raise is invitational or better, after which 2NT and three of the minor are the only non-forcings. 1♣-3♣ and 1♦-3♣ are Mixed Raises, showing ‘some values’. 1♣-2NT and 1♦-3♦ are truly weak raises.
- Responding to 1!d Opener Playing 2/1
- Yes, we play Inverted. And 1♦-2NT is not forcing.
- Responding to 1!d Opener Playing 2/1
- Four-card major first, but 1♦-2♣ shows four+ clubs only.
- Does 2!d response to 1M ideally promise 5 !ds?
- I play that 1♠-2♥/♦ and 1♥-2♦ show five+. 1♥/♠-2♣ shows one of: (1) five+ clubs, game-forcing (2) balanced or 4441, game-forcing (3) three-card support, invitational or better or four+-card support, slam try 1♥/♠-2♣-2♦ shows any up to ...
- Leading from Three Small
- It also tells partner where the honors in that suit are. That is more often important. Defense if already difficult enough.
- Blackwood after partner pre empts at the 3 level.
- We play Kickback (four above the trump suit for ace-asking). Over 3♣/♠, a direct 4♦/NT is Kickback. Over 3♦/♥, we need to first set the suit with 4♣(/♦), then can bid 4♥/♠ as Kickback. A direct 4♥/♠ is ...
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