How Time Flies

I played 30 deals over several hours with Marshall Miles today and time just flew by.  I promised to try to have a look at  My System: The Unbalanced Diamond and see if I can figure it out a little bit for next time.  I hope Marshall won’t expect me to be an expert.  I confess I didn’t really remember exactly what we discussed two weeks ago.  Before we started I didn’t see anything written but somehow we stumbled along and didn’t have too much trouble.

What do you think of our auction.  After we had found our double fit I still was not prepared to admit to my club control but when Marshall persisted with five diamonds I gave him a choice of slams with six diamonds.  Even with diamond four nothing careful play brings home twelve tricks (thirteen when West didn’t cover the spade.

My lesser triumph occurred on this hand where I had to guess diamonds to make 3NT doubled,

I couldn’t believe it when I looked at the clock and realized it was almost five o’clock and time to practice with Sylvia.  I do lead a hard life don’t I!