Damage intensity: I) not felt, II) scarcely felt, III) weak, IV) largely observed, V) strong, VI) slightly damaging, VII) damaging, VIII) heavy damaging, IX) destructive, X) very destructive, XI) devastating, and XII) completely devastating. Regarding screening and loan terms, recording ...
Impact can be captured using two indicators: salience and discontinuity. The first indicator, salience, concerns the extent to which a perturbation stands out from the background of other events and processes. Salience is likely to be increased by the dreadful nature of the perturbation and by ...
A defensive bidding structure for use against both weak and strong 1NT opening bids. Multi-Landy (Woolsey) A very scientific defense to 1NT. Pinpoint Astro A variation of the Astro convention, using double as penalty. Ripstra A slight variation of the Landy convention. Roche A (very...
If opener bids Two Hearts or Two Spades to show a four-card major, then the auction continues as any other Stayman sequence. Smolen, however, comes into play when opener bids Two Diamond to deny a four-card major. Responder now jumps to the three-level in hisshortermajor, therby showing...