Acol Weak 1NT

I play Acol on IntoBridge again, just for a change. Usually, it works reasonably well. This is one of the boards from the daily 12 board tournament. It did not work well. I think North must not open 1NT here. In Acol, that promises a balanced hand with 12-14 points. This hand is not balanced, and it too strong too by shape. The point count is 14 plus 1 length point. I reported a bug for this.

I had two other boards where the Acol succeeded. One was 1NTx made with a bit of luck. The other one was 3♣ which can make where others play 1NT which just make. 

Obviously, it is a fine line most of the time between success and failure with the weak 1NT. On the long run? I do not know. But you certainly must not stress the 1NT bid with a 5-4 hand with 15 points.

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