[Wayne_LV]

Duplicate post, please ignore

Link to correct post: http://www.bridgebas...opic/58528-sam/

[dustinst22]

In my opinion, if you carefully evaluate your boards at this level (intermediate/advanced), you'll find your bad boards are almost always the result of one of these:

1) Defensive errors
2) Declarer errors
3) Poor Bidding Judgment or not making a good tactical bid
4) Forgetting system


Boards where you could have gotten a better result with a better conventional agreement very very rarely come up at this level.

So you're right. Keep it simple, work on your card play (especially defense) and bidding judgment, thats where the boards are won and lost. I think if players at this level spent all their time working on defending better, they'd see the most improvement. I've focused 90% of my energies on this aspect of my game over the past 6 months and the payoff has been huge. Good bidding judgment is also critical and can only come from grinding out tons of hands against opponents better than you.

[glen]

Wayne_LV, on 2013-February-12, 12:23, said:

... Neither of us have any interest in accumulating Masters Points or BBO points ...

at this level and not concerned that much about winning, tend to make changes that improve your partnership's enjoyment of the game

[dustinst22]

glen, on 2013-February-12, 12:48, said:

at this level and not concerned that much about winning, tend to make changes that improve your partnership's enjoyment of the game

Sounds to me like they want to play well and have good results but aren't interested in point accumulation.

[Wayne_LV]

dustinst22, on 2013-February-12, 12:33, said:

In my opinion, if you carefully evaluate your boards at this level (intermediate/advanced), you'll find your bad boards are almost always the result of one of these:

1) Defensive errors
2) Declarer errors
3) Poor Bidding Judgment or not making a good tactical bid
4) Forgetting system


Boards where you could have gotten a better result with a better conventional agreement very very rarely come up at this level.

So you're right. Keep it simple, work on your card play (especially defense) and bidding judgment, thats where the boards are won and lost. I think if players at this level spent all their time working on defending better, they'd see the most improvement. I've focused 90% of my energies on this aspect of my game over the past 6 months and the payoff has been huge. Good bidding judgment is also critical and can only come from grinding out tons of hands against opponents better than you.

My analysis concurs 100% with yours. But we still review boards to reduce the number of obvious errors on our part, as well as to find System errors.