Frances
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I would support that it's not due to being idle. I've had this a number of times when trying to start teams matches, players that logged on a few minutes beforehand do not appear to be logged on and a bad-tempered telephone conversation follows …
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Many of our county events simply say that a match is played in two halves with a mandatory change of opponents at half time. There is sometimes in addition something on seating rights if there is a team of more than 4.
There is an advant…
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I don't agree that feature "generally means A or K". Why do you think that is the case?
The only distinction that may be important is that between "high card feature" and any distributional feature (i.e. may be a singleton) but without qua… -
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A semi-forcing 1NT isn't just like the ACOL 1NT and is usually alerted. It's different because
- it's up to a game force in strength (11 or 12 points depending on style of opening)
- depending on how it is played, it …
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OK, that's quite a good answer
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As others have said, it doesn't matter how you become aware of a mechanical error, you can correct it.
But why was he logged on twice, and "looking at the other screen" while bidding a hand? If this happened repeatedly, I would be fining h… -
Funny, on BBO and RB I always type the alert and explanation before selecting the bid.
This is getting a bit away from the original case posted, but I have to admit I want to be quite strict on 'misclicks' which can't be easily fixed, par…
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In reply to Robin's off-topic comment
Once when playing in an EBL event, when each table got its own boards, the stack of boards at our table was numbered 1,2,3,5,4,6,7,8....
After scoring up we discovered that 4 and 5 had been sw…
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In this case, yes. They were playing a 2D opening as a weak two in hearts or spades, or a sound pre-empt in diamonds (and p.s this was a Level 5 event)
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Indeed.
Distinguish the following two auctions:1S 1NT P 2D (transfer)
dbland 1NT dbl 2D (transfer) dbl
We play the first double as showing diamonds ("penalties"), but the second double as general …
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I don't understand how you can agree to play negative doubles to 3S and then say you "haven't discussed" this situation. It's a one-level opening and a direct overcall and it's below 3S so you have discussed it. What auctions at the 3-level wou…
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"> @Mark_Brown said:
(Quote)Funnily enough it's the threat of the TD adjudicating the score that is (one of) the main reasons I won't play BBO pairs online.
(Quote)Bad behaviour. Worse online that in real life.
No, plenty of UI cases online
And yes, if you are self-alerting, and you alert and describe what you have, but it isn't actually the partnership agreement, you have still given misinformation and you could possibly still get ruled against. (There was a hand in virtual Eastbou…
If you think it's "H+m" and your partner thinks it's "H+D" then there may have been a mistaken explanation. If the agreement is "H+m" and your partner has misexplained, there still could be damage, even though you have what your partner has expla…
Yes, but the counting doesn't go up to 10s. I estimate it as about 5 but I could be wrong.
a) In my opinion, it's a mistake in the rules. I suspect the L&E would allow any meaning for 3NT+ the same as openings if asked (there's a meeting next week).
Reading the rules again, there's clearly a lacuna, because you also don't …
(A) You can never say whether a call is a psyche or not without knowing what the partnership's agreement is. (The agreement may not be legal, but that isn't the point.)
If the partnership's agreement is e.g. to require at least opening v…
This sounds like a signal rather than a lead.
Playing F2F, in the signals and discards section the card say something like "UNUSUAL CARDING PLEASE ASK". In the space for notes, you then add something like: after a multi-way bid we play unu…While the UI issues with announcement go away online, it's still a good idea always to use the same wording.
If sometimes you say "12-14 may be 4441 singleton C" and sometimes you say "12-14" or "12-14 may have a singleton" the opponents ma…1C (Precision) - 1NT (8+) is alertable if it is forcing (which I think everyone playing Precision thinks it is). The 1C opening is not forcing to game - in fact in most forms of Precision there are some responses which opener can pass. So there…
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p.s. there has been significant hard feeling in non-EBU events when a defender has asked for an undo on their opening lead after dummy has hit and it appears to be a super-unfortunate lead. The poor TD has to decide if it's a mis-click or not, a…
It's possible to avoid the "fumbleclick" by turning on "confirm bids and plays".
It's also possible to avoid the BBO re-shuffle before opening lead issue by (i) not trying to play too fast, (ii) using hand diagrams rather than pictures of c…The most obvious reason to me is your number 2. An unintended play tells the other 2 players one of the cards in your hand. An unintended bid tells the other 3 players exactly zero (apart from something about your lack of manual dexterity)
Yes.... although if I were a beginner again, I am not sure I would like to be told "this is the way to bid... but experienced players bid differently", although I think many lessons would be improved if they were presented as "I am teaching you o…
F2F bridge frequently has conditional claims, and Law 68 as quoted above makes them legal - you are suggesting that play be curtailed. One might also argue that "10 or 11 depending on how the clubs break" is specific. I see them frequently at t…
I've opened a 4-card weak 2 before now.
By contrast, if we had a pair routinely alerting the pass on the auction 1S 2C P and explaining it as "may be a hand that wants to double you if you do any more bidding" that might be seen as trying to intimidate the next hand into not raising wh…