[Zelandakh]

fred, on 2015-February-04, 19:18, said:

I don't recall ever posting (or thinking) that, but I will take your word for it.

I believe it is a reference to this post, Fred. I suspect you were not actually referring to Fluffy here although he was active in the thread. Hrothgar also took it as a reference to him further on. This is a common issue with such nebulous attacks and something I take on board too on occasion (I had a discussion with Mike recently in similar circumstances, for example, when I was unsure if he was including me in a (negative) grouping of posters). The internet just makes it very difficult to make such comments without offending people, usually much more widely than originally intended.

[Fluffy]

fred, on 2015-February-04, 19:18, said:

I don't recall ever posting (or thinking) that, but I will take your word for it.

It was a rather stupid and rude thing for me to say. I apologize.

Thanks, it was about 10 years ago so... I remember everybody else was flattering you (licking your butt is the spannish term) so perhaps I was teassing you a bit just to compensate

[Antrax]

Cool problems, Fluffy, though your site probably won't support the recommended solution (lead the ♦J and glare meaningfully at partner while thinking "don't you dare ruff")

[rhm]

Fluffy, on 2015-February-05, 05:45, said:

So this is an expert problem?

You have:

♠-
♥AKJ973
♦A654
♣A53

All vul, MPs, your partner can hardly follow suit, and might take a 2♣ opening as weak 2.

pass-pass-??

Lets say you decide to be practical and open 4♥

pass-pass-4♥-pass
4NT-pass-

What now? (you play 4 aces blackwood if you think he is asking for keycards)


I get a lot o expert problems when partner can't recall which cards are high and which ones are not. They are really difficult, and I often get them wrong. The key to them is that you need to force partner to play his winners before he can discard them. Sometimes it is kinda frustrating because there is no real answer:

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On lead against 4♥ after you won 2 tricks already you need to find a way to cash 2 more. The problem is you can't, if you lead a spade partner mightl finesse into declarer's queen. But if you try to endplay declarer by leading ♦J he might forget it is high and ruff it with the master trump. What is more likely?

Are these Expert problems?

I never said or claimed that all problems you get with a weak partner are suitable for the expert forum.
In fact most will not be.

First try to understand what I said.
Then respond

Rainer Herrmann

[gnasher]

Fluffy, on 2015-February-05, 05:45, said:

Are these Expert problems?

I think they're professional problems but not expert problems. Like Diana, I find them quite entertaining, though I confess it's mostly schadenfreude.