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IMO C should clue blue. E would still search for m1. and next turn D would play y1 - it clarifies the situation and prevents premature m2 play

Honestly I am starting to double think the situation. I did not have any obligation to do anything (like a bluff/finesse requiring my play) so I could easily clue k5 - that would invalidate that w clue on me if it was a simple bluff and cause bombs. So such a clue should not be given. If we trust th...

let me try again: I MUST play w1 first - can we agree on that? and then the next player after me is blind playing something unrelated - where is the gap to promise a layer? there is nobody between my w1 and the unrelated card - so you cannot assume a layer since there is no gap. no gap = no layer. y...

I think you are misunderstanding the concept: I have to play w1 to be able to play the other white card. As soon as I play w1, k5 gets played - there is no gap in between. Nobody can play anything until I play w1. And there is no gap between w1 and k5. No gap - no layer

i got clued whites, knowing my 1 as playable https://plain-eeur-prod-public.komododecks.com/202607/16/xKZXaKzVe3FZEB4wv3tp/image.png Gemmy responded with k5 after my w1, and in my opinion that's it - the bluff is revealed, there was no gap for somebody to guarantee a layer. but I was called a noob a...

while it can be very useful (and I used it myself when learning), be wary that it describes H-Group convention, while BGA mostly uses (Layered) Finesse. there is a lot of overlap, but also some differences: for example we don't have Chop-Focus with color on BGA. but go with it, you'll get corrected ...

Let me paraphrase the topic of this conversation: Doea the esteemed bga community belie that the conventions of 2p and 3+p versions differ enough that a Master 2player cannot demonstrate the expected level of cooperation? And similarly, a Master 3+player cannot follow the existing 2p conventions? An...

didn't watch it all. they must have been looking into each others screens

my issue is not with ELO itself, but with different conventions of 2p and 3+p variants: e.g. 2p Masters bombing reverse finesses, ignoring layers etc - they simply don't have such concepts and are not used to it. Happened too many times already.

The difference between 3p and and 4-5p is minor, while 2p is indeed a separate game with different conventions - arguably finesse, layered finesse etc make little sense for it. They save 2s. They have special rules to avoid double discard and so on. So yes, I'd prefer to see 2 different game entries...