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Posted 2017-January-26, 10:58

View Postbarmar, on 2017-January-26, 10:06, said:

Perhaps a reasonable approximation would be "there are enough differences that you would need to prepare a different system card for each approach". ACBL convention cards have a few places (length of opening suit bids, strength of 1NT openings) where you can fill in multiple meanings for a call depending on seat or other conditions. But if you have lots of other variations, there's no way you'd be able to fit them on the same CC.

I know other NBO's system cards have more room than ACBL's, but even SB in the OP was not able to fit all his variations on one card.

SB was being very helpful - he has to have two convention cards to play multiple systems in 7+ board team matches and so felt that the best way to be considerate to his opponents was to use the same two cards for the duplicate event. Both cards are, of course, completely, legibly and accurately filled in - and to reduce the chance of confusion, he carefully leaves on the table only the convention card that details his system that applies to the actual position.
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Posted 2017-January-27, 10:17

View Postweejonnie, on 2017-January-26, 10:58, said:

SB was being very helpful

That would be a first :)
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