A Chilli welcome
Welcome to the Chilli bridge bidding blog.I have posted a version of Chilli Two on the website and set up this blog for discussion. I hope you enjoy it.I apologise to my readers for the year-long delay...
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Unscrambling the scramble window
Putting up the Chilli Two site involved an intense review of the system, and – you'll never guess – we've already come up with some improvements! Most of them are simplifications, which are always...
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Soft fit, hard fit
Chilli Two makes a distinction between major and minor fit auctions, the differences being that in a minor fit 3NT is to play (rather than values for four) and three of a suit shows an empty suit...
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Tarting up the top tools
Having given 3NT values-for-four a good long workout over the last year or so, we have finally given it the thumbs down.Let me explain first why it was there in the first place. In a sequence like 1 -...
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Autumn Clean
It's cold, grey and damp here – everything normal – so I decided to give the site an Autumn clean. Apart from weeding out a few errors, I've also removed the trailing comments on each page (which were...
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Simple pleasures
As you probably know by now, nothing pleases us here at the Chillidome more than a bit of simplification. And so with great pleasure, I present a simpler 1 opening.When we discovered that it was...
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Bridge over disturbed waters
I apologise to the more sensitive Chillians, but this post contains strong language which you may find offensive.As you know, Chilli has three very distinct modes of operation: neutral, disturbed and...
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Strengthening the bridge
A Happy New Year to all Chillians and bridge players everywhere! You may still be suffering from the after effects of the festive season, but here at Chilli Towers we have been beavering away at the...
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Life, who'd been doing with it?
Hi allAs is so often the way, a trickle of ideas to improve Chilli has arrived just at the same time as real life has intruded with a large To Do list. So I'm going to have to restrict myself to little...
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Financial crisis causes double to weaken
Hello ChilliansLike everyone else, Chilli is not immune to the global financial crisis, so here at Chilli Towers we have been conducting a mid-winter review of our operations, and we have come to two...
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Alighting on a pinhead
When I first started learning competitive bridge, my experienced partner told me that there was little point in stopping in four of a minor, as it was as akin to angels alighting on a pinhead. You may...
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Hello ChilliansIt's been much too long since I blogged here last. As I predicted, my life has rather been taken over for the last few months by things unrelated to Chilli. This will continue for a few...
View ArticleWhat can possibly go wrong?
As you may know, I have completed the Chilli book and was planning to publish it at the start of March. The usual catalogue of life distractions have been threatening this timetable yet again, but...
View ArticleWhat did go wrong?
Hello Chillians As always in Alan Williams world, things go slower than expected, so I missed my self-imposed end of March deadline to get What Can Possibly Go Wrong? on the shelves.But I am very...
View ArticleOnwards, upwards ...
I'm glad to say that I've sorted out the Amazon problem, so you can now buy - without confusion - from Amazon or direct from me.There are still a number of other sites claiming to be selling the book...
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Hi Chillians The revised website is now up and running. It meets what for me was the most pressing issue – my committment in the book to provide an up-do-date list of amendments and corrections.It is...
View ArticleWhat's your problem?
Geoff and I have been road-testing a new toy that was suggested by one particular situation, but then proved to be plausible in others.The seed bid was the unlimited minor suit-setter (What... p75;...
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