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To my regret I have been infected by a strange American habit, which has evaluated in this warning, so do not tell anybody that Mike did not alert you.

Though I am fully responsible for this site and for everything that is written in it, I am not responsible for any consequences.
If you and your partner decide to start playing MAF you cannot point to me as being the cause of your mutual misunderstandings.

Obviously I am fully responsible for the the correctness of the values in the probability tables.
If however the average hands you get some day do not correspond with my tables, you never should blame me. I will never be going to compensate you, even if I knew how to do this, that is for sure.

I made the living banner on purpose in order to amuse you (and myself). It could be that after a while you are not amused at all any more. You cannot blame me for that either, it due to your sense of humor. Your lucky that there is a trick, not even a sneaky one, available now, through which you can remove the applets.

On accuracy and interpretation:
After working some time, this webpage has become more complicated and extensive than I planned beforehand. It could be that I have claimed matters that are conflicting, or drawn conclusions that on second thoughts are apparently wrong. As such mistakes are annoying, I would value it greatly if you would point out them to me.
I am aware of the fact that I am not always accurate in giving HCP-intervals; these may overlap sometimes. This is done deliberately, while in my opinion the whole matter of HCP-counting often is so arbitrarily, that it simply cannot be done with an accuracy of 1 HCP.
Further I hope that you will not observe traces of my carelessness or forgetfulness. I really tried to prevent these traces. If you still find disturbing omissions please be so kind and notify me.
However I presume that I succeeded in saying in English what I intended to say, English not being my native tongue, the result is undoubtedly often "bad English", which also contains many mistakes. I apologize for this, and I hope you will understand what I meant to say on this website without irritating yourself too much.

Now seriously, I would not be glad if you abused the information in this site. It is meant for you in order to enjoy bridge more. It is definitely not meant for those of you, who copy this site or part of it for commercial purposes:

You are granted the right to use and to make an unlimited number of copies of this internet site.
This software, the related plain text, parts of it, as it is, or translated in any other language can not be bundled with any commercial package, magazine, book or distributed by itself or accompanying books or magazines without express written permission from the author.

Names of systems and conventions that are new, i.e. they apparently have never been used before written in any book or internet page in relation with bridge e.g. MAF and all the meanings these three letters stand for, SHiD, SHiCe, MaD, MadaM, SuperMAF, WHA?, WHIMS, .......... etc, are property of the author. If the names are used in other media in relation to bridge, it must be done in the same way, it is done on this website; all these names are part of MAF.

The files belonging to this site, have been deposited at my internet provider UUNET bv office Nijmegen, and also officially, according to the dutch law at Justitie Kantongerecht te Nijmegen Netherlands.


Chiel Verwoest
8a Broadway
NL 6674 MA HERVELD

12 november 1998


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