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  • I suggest you email the Realbridge support desk. They are very helpful and RB have done lots of testing with different devices and browsers.

  • In Berks & Bucks we went for Bookwhen as the online booking system and Stripe as the payment system. It works very well. We are very pleased. Small charges of course.

  • I am Treasurer of Berks & Bucks and we are thinking about using RealBridge but as identified above, payment is a real issue. Can anyone give any information about Spadetickets or any other online payment system please. I have heard there is a…

  • The BBOtoXML extractor might help. If (and only if ) the matches are using the same boards, the teams of 4 matches results from Realbridge can be merged in BBOtoXML to produce a teams of 8. This can then be uploaded.

  • AndrewF, would you reccommend SpadeTickets ? I am a County treasurer and a bit concerned about the workload of tracking payments if we move to RealBridge from BBO. Thanks for any advice.

  • The above comments by Gordon and Triffid are of course correct, but the simple answer is that what you put in the description and what you put in the format must match up. If they don't then the system is likely to revert to one board rounds as i…

  • I think you will find this was suggested by Robin Barker in this forum on 1st October.
    It can now be done simply in the latest version of the BBOtoXML extractor.

  • I simply do what Robin Barker suggested some time ago which is to put a minus adjustment against the robot pair (something like -200 matchpoints ) in EBUScore which moves them down to last place. All other scores remain unchanged and NGS uneffect…

  • Robin's suggestion of putting a large negative adjustment to the robot's score works much better.
    Everything else remains unchanged

  • I just tried this with a 19 table set of results. A robot pair won the E/W and were awarded 70MP. It removed the robots Ok and recalculated the masterpoints. But now the top MP was 60 not 70 and the N/S awards were also reduced from 70 to 60. So …

  • it is only in v2 of EBUScore. I had the same problem trying to find it in v1. it is not there !

  • If you use the excellent "BBO Extractor" it creates an XML file for upload to EBUScore

    in BBO scoring Comment by mickg May 2020
  • I have been training club directors of clubs in my county on behalf of the EBU and my county. Clubs have started by using EBU directors and paying £40 per session. After the training they have felt confident to run their own sessions.

  • Does anyone know if you can join the EBU session as a Kibitzer just to watch ?
    If you can, how is it done and is it free ?

  • Gordon, as this topic of online bridge is likely to grow rapidly, maybe you should think about setting up a separate forum "Online Bridge". Just a thought.

  • Gordon, I totally agree with Mark about documentation. Having had a career in IT, in my experience, good documentation is essential to systems development. It is not just as a user guide but also critical in the development stages to get user req…

  • if the 2D bid was just a relay and promised nothing but was simply allowing opener to describe his hand, then is not pass now doing the same thing, ie the same meaning. So is pass a comparable bid ?

  • I find these forums very useful but often get frustrated when someone asks for a ruling but instead gets a whole load of views and comments. I much prefer it when Robin or Gordon give a definitive answer. So see this one .... ** [Name & origi…

  • Would it not be up to partnership agreement as to whether the final double of 3NT means lead the transfer suit ( Hearts ) or the transfered suit (Spades ).

  • Jonathan, I have the EBUScore Manual produced by Robin in Oct 2017. It is very good especially for new users with excellent screen shots. However it is for version 1.1.3. Having spent many years in IT, I would expect this to be updated for the ne…

  • There seems to be a common theme of dislike to long journeys, long matches and late finishes.
    As we all get older this is a major problem with evening matches. So why not promote daytime matches for those of us that are retired and would mu…

  • Jonathan, will there be a new manual/documentaion for version 1.2 as it is quite a change from 1.1 ?

  • Michael, I know that some bridge "centres" who have a number of clubs that play at their premises need to have multiple copies of EBUScore on the one computer. Can you also give advice/instructions on how to do this.

  • Thanks Jeff. Very useful.

  • Using the beta version, it will not load the Bridgemate Control Software. It loads something called Bridge Scorer Control that I have never seen before. I realised the file destination was pointing to this Bridge Scorer and not Bridgemate. So I …

  • When is 1.2.2 expected ?

  • Thanks for that. Never used this "F" facility. What is the criteria for using it and setting up a separate group ? How many times should a board be fouled to use this rather than just awarding AV+/AV+ ? Does the White Book define this ?

  • Can you tell me how to divide into groups and score them separately. Is there a facility in EBUScore to do this or is it a manual exercise if if so how is it done. I have never had the need to do it and have no idea how.

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    Go to "Properties" on the main screen.
    Put a minus number in the "Adj" column next to the relevant pair.
    The number is the amount of a top you wish as the penalty.
    It is not applied to an individual board, but to the …