Word: sobel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bidding system that Goren and Sobel use in tournaments is the Goren system of his books, adjusted to the actual deal by hard thinking. A perfect example of Goren-Sobel precision bidding, at a U.S.-Ireland team match in Dublin last year...
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...suit and South the high-card strength, few partnerships would manage to arrive at a grand slam on this deal. The Irish partners playing the identical hands at the other table stopped at six hearts. With two biddable suits and rosy game prospects, Goren opened one club to give Sobel a chance to reply at the one level in case she held a weak hand. His second-round jump, displaying a good spade suit and extra high-card strength, committed the partnership to game, so Sobel could afford to say three hearts (rather than jump to four), permitting inexpensive exploration...
Goren saw that with Sobel's club ace, the texture of his own club suit gave the combined hands extra strength that Blackwood signaling could not indicate. So instead of giving the five-heart response to show two aces, he jumped to six clubs. To Sobel, the Goren message was clear: I have the missing aces and the king of hearts, but I also have solid honors in clubs, so go ahead and bid seven if you've got the hearts. She went ahead and bid seven. With Goren's club tricks available for discarding two diamonds...
Goren's six club bid was unorthodox but brilliant. It was just the sort of bid a bridge player can make with a partner like Helen Sobel-if the player himself happens to be Charles Goren, king of the aces...