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  • In EBUScore, the Jannersten Interwoven Howell does the trick: you will see at table one, 1v8 in round 1, 2v9, etc.
    When setting up a Mitchell, there is a tickbox to omit the first round.
    p.s. I might be wrong about this being in Manni…

  • There's a standard format for two sessions, a Mitchell followed by a double Howell. with an even number of tables, this is trivial. But with an odd number, the double howell is 'interwoven', whereby the two pairs that would be sitting out play …

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    Essentially, yes. With nine teams, each team only has eight opponents to play, and therefore only play eight of the nine sets of boards.
    There is no need for the boards to be moved down one table for the first round, unless you …

    in TEAMS Comment by Mitch December 2023
  • Ah - I assumed that when you said that East committed the "initial irregularity", it was prior to South's irregularity.

    I possibly also misunderstood what you meant by...

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    ...which to me suggested that once they have the…

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    Not sure where you got this from. I have never seen anywhere that Law 40 does not apply to online bridge. East-West are still entitled to the correct explanation of North-South methods, even if online procedures mean that they are un…

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    This is not the only issue with using EBUScore. For this particular issue, best just to stick to the 30-board movement, and record as unplayed the third board of each round with only 2 boards scheduled. (If using bridgemates, one of …

  • Further thoughts:

    (Robin has just beaten me to the first one)

    Presumably, in your double Howell (often called a Patton schedule), you will normally have board sharing between team-mates: i.e. for six teams, tables 1 & 4 will s…

  • Scale G is redundant now. There used to be a unique GP scale for county pairs championships . Now it isn't used, and GPs are awarded according to the "Standard EBU formula", with top awards, etc., specified in paragraph 6.3. I don't think tha…

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    4.1.3
    Identify the number of full tables in the competition, and look this figure up in the appropriate
    column (i.e. in the top third, top quarter or top half column as appropriate). For example, for 9
    ½ tables, read …

  • For the purposes of determining whether calls are comparable, describing the meaning of 2C as "2+" is woefully inadequate.
    Do you open 1C on ALL hands with 2+ clubs? NO.
    So you cannot describe as 'comparable' any replacement call jus…

    in Subset ? Comment by Mitch September 2021
  • If you import the XML file into EBUScore, you can mark a pair as missing before creating a new file & re-submitting.

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    It appears to me that this is their system - or at least it is what RHO thinks is their system. Of course, LHO might not be on the same wavelength, in which case a one-off occurrence might constitute a misbid.
    But if RHO always …

  • If this is in a game where, otherwise, undos are allowed in clear cases of misclicks (& supported by Law 25), then I think that it would be wrong to let the Pass Out stand. Since we cannot, presumably, assign an actual bridge result, I would…

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    I've come late to this conversation, but...
    I'm very surprised that anybody thinks that Robots are more erratic than humans. On the basis of the above argument, we should be disqualifying from NGS any events in which my Aunt Eth…

  • Thanks John.
    Mine wasn't a suggestion that the old numbering method should be retained. It was intended more as a wry comment that the 'wrong' method did at least have one unintended benefit.
    It is much more important that everybody …

  • I have occasionally used BBX, but also use Chris Chambers' spreadsheet (& also have used BriAn). I don't wish to go into the relative merits at this time, but on this specific point: Chris Chambers' sheet does not recognise different section…

  • Yes, 6-4 not 4.8-3.2
    The point that you might have missed from the start is that all boards in the session should be factored to a common top, regardless of how many times they are played. & this applies whether a board is played fewer…

  • Remember that in effect, on any one board, it is all the N/S pairs that are competing against each other, and all the E/W pairs against each other.
    If there are six results on a board, then (without any ruling) the total MPs available at an…

  • If a top on a board is 100 MPs, then Ave+ is 60 MPs (or session average if higher), regardless of what else happens on the board. i.e. this applies, even if the actual top achieved by another pair drops to 99 MPs (say) due to Neuberg.

  • IMO, it doesn't even matter whether the double shows points or not. If West has one HCP, then they should know that their side has the minority of points, whether South has 6+ and North 16-, or South 2 and North 20. In fact, the danger of a pen…

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    Even if a score hadn't been achieved, "Not Played" should never be used, unless the board was not scheduled to be played.

  • For 17 tables (e.g.), have you considered merging two 8½ table Mitchells? (with the sitting out pairs meeting in the middle). This might be slightly more convenient than 9T + 8T Hesitation Mitchell, if the intention is not to have two entirely …

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    The more I think about it, I'm not convinced that you are wrong, even though it would not have occurred to me to go down that route. We all accept that 25A 'trumps' Law 27. Is there anything in the laws that suggests that 25B can not…

  • In my experience, it is much better to ask players just to advise the TD/scorer of any line-up changes, especially if you expect it to be a relatively uncommon occurrence.
    The facility to allow players to record their own line-up changes on…

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    Personal scorecards / booklets, like the ones the EBU did for the Summer Congress weekend events. Room to record scores for 14 matches. 7-board matches in Mike's case, and across two one-day events rather than one single long event.<…

  • It is still misinformation if you give an explanation that doesn't match your partnership agreement, even if the reasons you have for doing so are entirely innocent. The opponents are still entitled to a correct explanation, whatever other infra…

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    Are you suggesting that, if the opponents forget to alert a call, it's OK to knowingly misinform them about your own system?

  • Let's assume:
    1. that your agreed system is that a double of a natural 2D would be for take-out; and of an artificial 2D it would be showing a diamond suit.
    2. that the opposition's agreement is in fact that 2D is artificial, even tho…

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    If West knew that it wasn't strong, then this is either a psyche, or deliberate misinformation (depending on whether the partner also has a similar view). If the purpose is principally to dissuade the opponents from bidding, then this…

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    I'm not sure I'd even consider that to be seven. Without East's J10 of diamonds, West would only make 6 tricks on this hand.