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This one is an example of what I would call sloppy declarer play. West could hardly be blamed for raising East to a small slam when East opens with a preempt of 3D. That might make East a bit more careful in the declarer play if the results I saw are anything to go by.

Board 18 from Monday 27/01/20
Dealer E NS Vul

	AKT9765 Q7 8 QT3
AT542 AJT AJ542		4 83 KQ97632 K98
	QJ832 KJ96 54 76

So much for taking a break over Christmas! The man can't sleep without a pen in his hand. Vil is favouring us with his thoughts on Weak Twos and Transfers in a new series of articles. This blog will be updated as he sends more articles. For the present we have:

1. An Overview of Acol basics
2. Basic Weak Twos
3. No Trumps and Transfers
4. No Trump Rebids
5. Transfers and More
6. Transfers after 2NT
7. Opposition 1NT
8. SSS: A Simple System Summary
9. Bonus Article on play at No Trumps

If you wish to receive these articles via direct email when they're hot off the press just let Vil (villyn@xtra.co.nz) know and he'll add you to his mailing list.

... he never really went away. Just left me off his mailing list when he started a new series a few weeks ago! My apologies to all his loyal and devoted fans. It's nice to have our front page ticking over again.

Vil's new series deals to questions submitted by players of X-Club deals. Here's a dilly:

Board 24 from 48MOND
Dealer West, nil Vul

	Q9 T9764 J KJ965
AT7 AJ532 AKT8 7		J84 Q76432 QT42
	K6532 KQ8 95 A83

The X-Clubs results site is now working. We are posting just the Overall ladder for now - Overall and club sections containing full drill-down capability will follow. The ladder you see is sortable by clicking on any green column header. We have 55 of 57 clubs in totalling 982 pairs - just waiting for Marlborough and Golden Bay who had problems in getting a result out on the night.