But European experts tend to favor weak no-trump openings, and the 4-4 spade fit came to light.
As the partnership favors four-card major openings, she was able to open one heart.
One of the top players in the world during the 1910s and 1920s, he began his career as a combinative classical player, favoring openings such as the King's Gambit (1.
Benjamin, who helped train I.B.M.'s formidable chess computer, Deep Blue, has long favored off-the-beaten-track openings and is still playing them, even after they have achieved considerable popularity.
South was one of the game's regulars, Andy Arkin, a traditional bidder who favors four-card major openings.
Duchamp continued to play in the French Championships and also in the Chess Olympiads from 1928-1933, favoring hypermodern openings such as the Nimzo-Indian.
The economics of marketing now powerfully favors nationwide openings in thousands of theaters over the traditional "platforming" approach, in which a movie opens in a few cities and builds.
The economics of marketing, however, now powerfully favors nationwide openings in thousands of theaters instead of gradually building a movie's following a few cities at a time.
