Going to San Diego

Tomorrow Ray and I head to San Diego.  For the first time in a long long time I am going to play in two national events, the women’s pairs and the women’s board a match teams.  Of course there is work to do too and one day to spend doing some sight seeing with Ray.

Sylvia and I spent a bit of time on preparation.  I would not say we are a practiced partnership and our system notes are quite a bit less than I am used to.  We just started to play a few days before we headed to Penticton and then after playing in that, we played an event in Washington and then from time to time online.  So we are playing quite a simple system which I think is the best thing to do in this situation.  However Sylvia wanted to add transfer advances.  The “notes” (about five lines) she sent were quite sparse.  There is amazingly little online or written in an obvious place about this subject.  I did find some information about Ruben Transfers but this wasn’t quite the same thing.

I had some notes for transfer advances when we overcall one of a major and they double (or bid 1S) and we are using that.  I would be curious to know if anyone is aware of a good source of information on this topic.  I even suggested to Ray that we organize a book about it, one of our ‘how to play it, how to defend against it’ series.  Anyone want to write the book?

I managed to break my itouch last night and I had to face the prospect of going to San Diego without it.  You should know I carry it all the time.  It was a hardware problem and they just replaced my device immediately at the store.  Wow.  So I am happy about that.

Even if the bridge doesn’t go well I will be happy to be in a warm place surrounded by bridge people and playing the game we love.  So as my son says “it’s all good”.

I will have a tiny computer in San Diego so I may or may not blog from there but I will save up the hands and I should have lots for when I get home.