On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:21:52 -0400, "Paul Hightower"

<paulhigh_at_dont_email.net> wrote:

>Surely heart length also has some value when opening in 4th seat,

>because then you still can't be out-competed in a minor suit.  Maybe a

>revision of the Rule of 15 would be like HCP + 1 for each spade + 1/4

>for each heart.

>

>The point is, that spades are not worth anything approaching 1 point, in 4th 

>or any other seat. 

The big point of _Points Schmoints_ was that shape matters a lot, and

just looking at points is a mistake.   So he came up with a couple of

rules to help people who need rules to reach decisions that players

such as himself get intuitively.

-- 

"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,

than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace 

to the legislature, and not to the executive department." 

- James Madison