Talk:Psychic bid

Comic notrump

It seems to me that a 'comic no-trump' is a specific (& illegal in most places as you mentioned) convention and therefore isn't actually a psyche - though I realise it is in the same vein (A bit like drury after a 3rd seat opening which is passes cos opener had long clubs and a weak hand). A 1NT psyche is more general than this. Cambion 12:56, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It really depends whether you have a checkback bid by the partner; if yes, it is subject to restrictions and "properly" called Gardener/comic; if not, I feel it still may be called "comic", at least for an absence of a better term. I just wanted to cross-link the articles; Gardener 1NT explains the legality in more details. Duja 13:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

History

At least these players belong in coverage of the early history.

John(ny) Rau and William (Billy) Barrett, young players whose tactics were sensational; age 22 and 20 [NYT 1980-07-22] members of the 1930 Reisinger champions (NABC: Reisinger 1930, with fruitful links); age 21 and 18 [NYHT 1930-07-19, NYHT 1930-12-12] members of the Columbia University team in the 1930 Vanderbilt tournament
Dorothy Rice Sims, who maybe introduced the psych(ological) terminology and certainly wrote about the tactic in a magazine and a 1932 book

Reportedly Sims once said to an opponent post-mortem, of her partner Rau, essentially, "Mr. Rau is the expert in our partnership so he will tell you what I would have done." --P64 (talk) 00:10, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(Mis)spelling?

Saying that "psyche" (with the e) is a misspelling is a bold claim considering that my experience is that it's about 50/50 between that and "psych". Which of the sources cited says that, or does it represent original research? atakdoug (talk) 15:33, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Psychic underbidding

Has anyone got a well-attested example? J. D. R. Collings (we need an article) was notorious for this. You need to be very well organised to deal with an auction like 1♥-P-3♥-P; 4♥-5♣. He might even have made it.

From my own repertoire, what do you open in third at favourable with ♠x♥AKQ10xxx♦AKx♣Ax? If partner has one of the perfectos, slam is cold; but in my experience he never does, so I risked 4♥. JDR (for it was he) had some shape, and concluded I was stealing. After that, he and his partner (another England international) had two ways of going for 1400, but chose the one way of going for 1100 against no slam. Narky Blert (talk) 22:02, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]