Talk:Bridge convention

Quest transfers
Sorry, User:Pattayabridge but Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought, nor a soapbox for promotion of brilliant ideas. You're kindly requested to prove that Quest transfers are a popular convention, published in at least one major Bridge magazine or used by some major players. All that the Google search gives are self-promotions of http://www.pattayabridge.com on various web directories. Please see a similar precedent. I sympathize with your attempts to popularize your website or convention, but the WP:NOR policy of Wikipedia is that such material may be published only after some other reputable source has wrote about it. Duja ► 15:22, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Strong opening bids
The article currently says "Strong two clubs in natural systems denote hands of 23+ points". But many people using Standard American and varients now play 2C for all unbalanced hands with 21 or more points. DES (talk) 15:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Misunderstanding
There is some misunderstanding in this article; conventions are "artificial" bids but 1NT and weak 2 opening bids are "natural". I will look up some references and correct this shortly. Abtract 17:09, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Link to Karosel 2D
I added Karosel 2D under the heading "other opening bids." Both treatments under that heading (Flannery and Multi 2D are opening bids of 2D, as is Karosel 2D (my own invention). Unlike the article above which was questioned because Quest transfers was not published in a Bridge publication, my bridge convention was published in the May 2002 issue of the Bridge Bulletin printed Nationally by the ACBL.

TheKurgan (talk) 23:42, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Alerts and announcements
It seems no mention is made in Wikipedia of this aspect of bidding conventions. Am I correct? In any case, the descriptions of some conventions requiring an alert or announcement do not mention this aspect. Perhaps an expert on such things (not me, I'm afraid) could add information about it?Aliotra (talk) 02:00, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Definition of "convention"
Bill Root's definition of a convention is, in my opinion, misleading. A bid is not a convention because it is unusual - it is a convention because it conveys information other than a willingness to declare a contract in the named denomination. For example, Stayman is now so common that it is the usual meaning of a 2C response to 1NT, but it is nonetheless a convention. Conversely, an opening bid of 2C that shows clubs is unusual, but it is not a convention. In any case, what is usual in one part of the world may be unusual in another, so usualness is not a reliable yardstick. 203.20.255.5 (talk) 02:14, 17 June 2010 (UTC)