Talk:Psychic bid

Comic notrump

It seems to me that a 'comic no-trump' is a specific (& illegal in most places as you mentioned) convention and therefore isn't actually a psyche - though I realise it is in the same vein (A bit like drury after a 3rd seat opening which is passes cos opener had long clubs and a weak hand). A 1NT psyche is more general than this. Cambion 12:56, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

It really depends whether you have a checkback bid by the partner; if yes, it is subject to restrictions and "properly" called Gardener/comic; if not, I feel it still may be called "comic", at least for an absence of a better term. I just wanted to cross-link the articles; Gardener 1NT explains the legality in more details. Duja 13:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

History

At least these players belong in coverage of the early history.

• John(ny) Rau and William (Billy) Barrett, young players whose tactics were sensational; age 22 and 20 [NYT 1980-07-22] members of the 1930 Reisinger champions (NABC: Reisinger 1930, with fruitful links); age 21 and 18 [NYHT 1930-07-19, NYHT 1930-12-12] members of the Columbia University team in the 1930 Vanderbilt tournament
• Dorothy Rice Sims, who maybe introduced the psych(ological) terminology and certainly wrote about the tactic in a magazine and a 1932 book

Reportedly Sims once said to an opponent post-mortem, of her partner Rau, essentially, "Mr. Rau is the expert in our partnership so he will tell you what I would have done." --P64 (talk) 00:10, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

(Mis)spelling?

Saying that "psyche" (with the e) is a misspelling is a bold claim considering that my experience is that it's about 50/50 between that and "psych". Which of the sources cited says that, or does it represent original research? atakdoug (talk) 15:33, 8 January 2020 (UTC)