Mark_Brown
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Thank you for a thorough and informative response.
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Slow play. :'(
Online the hand can be cut and the TD adjudicate a score. IRL? -
As an aside, I've just noticed a BBO feature where you can type to play cards or bid. For example "c7" would indicate playing the seven of clubs. This seems to me less prone to missing or card reordering, and less hassle than needing to confirm e…
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It does worry me a lot that we'll try to bring the 20/30 cohort into the existing bridge world, and then lose them again as they face 9-minute hands and disapproving tuts if anyone mentions hesitation.
Perhaps as TDs we should take this enf… -
I've come across several online players who only claim if they have all trumps, and routinely reject any claim (even if explained) that doesn't consists of only trumps.
Very annoying when the TD warns the table for slow-play! -
Duschek is excellent, but not an easy read for an inexperienced TD (myself included).
Remember there are also the booklets from the course too. -
Thanks - great booklet, a very welcome addition to the suite of coloured books.
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Just plugging this again for TDs.
I'm working through it now while in lockdown (ordered just in time, although I believe BW is open again). It's not a light bedtime read, but it certainly challenges you about what and why you do what you do… -
While I don't disagree with the consequences and that a person causing recurrent problems would warrant an Av-, ...
I'd be a little careful in assuming that:
a) the person understands the cause of the problems - many players are on… -
Apologies for zombie-ing a thread, but in BBO when making a bid there's an Alert, and an Explain (and you can do both).
I assume the following apply for ACOL club games, but can someone please clarify, or link to BBO references?It's my experience that when I ask (club) opponents what discard signals they play, they have a name for it, but also universally can't agree what that means or when it applies. I suspect (somewhat scathingly) they also don't watch their partner'…
Also note Blue Book 9A3 - the WBF rules it out at all levels (unless the EBU permits it - it doesn't, see GrahamC's response).
The following conventions or treatments are categorised as ‘Brown Sticker’ [and may not be played, unless they …
(Quote)Yes - wrong to give MI to avoid giving UI. But also wrong to give UI to correct another's MI ?
Does not giving UI really outweigh not mis-informing clients?
I'd inferred the opposite given the delays in correcting mis-information until the correction can no longer be of benefit to your partner (declarer at end-bidding, defenders at e…The "best" I've seen so far was South on Table 2 calling the TD on round 3, to complain that their row was already completed. Their partner had scored the first two rounds as Pair 4.
To make it worse, North had been using the table number …Aren't the two test questions?
1) What would others have done without the hesitation (logical alternative)
2) What does the hesitation suggest - there's guidance in the blue book
... it doesn't matter what anyone else would have…Just to round this out.
The poll (of "no fear" level players) gave a mix of Pass, 4D, 5D.
Most other tables in 5D/5D+1/5D+2.
Double Dummy claims 7D or 5/6NT but that needs the right finesses.So my decision was North us…
The bit I'm struggling with is that without the announcement/wince, the bidding could easily go 2D (weak)/pass ...
Amongst the cohort of players a weak raise to a weak 2 isn't assured.North has something like: S xx / H Qxxx / D xxx…
I'd mixed Pass and "-" to highlight the exchange and downplay the silent opposition. Don't read anything into it.
Is this worth a mis-bid/mis-explanation discussion?
That hand's clearly not "opening strength" - it neither has 8 HCP nor meets "rule of 18".I do wish sometimes that each table came with a big button in the middle for calling the TD, and that once pressed only the TD could cancel it, a bit like the call cords in hospitals. It would certainly reduce a lot of these problems!
From a few weeks back, please note:
https://www.ebu.co.uk/forum/discussion/815/mechanical-error-other-side-of-the-bidding-box<…In defence of the TD course, on mine we had a fairly long discussion on slow play; and several other gems on how to word questions to get clear answers with accusations.
What it didn't cover was the inter-personal skills. Talk to your clu…
(Quote)I'm going to dispute this one. Surely stating information available to everyone is an aid to memory. Were they to have forgotten you'd be reminding them, and if they haven't it's superfluous.
And surely counting cards in each sui…Scenario 1 : counting
... 43A(c), 40B2(d) - no contribution from dummy, no reminders.Scenario 2 : explanation
... 20F1 - you can ask what other bids would mean to try to narrow it down; you can also ask what it does show - s…It's tricky; it's more about managing the room than reminding people about Best Behaviour. But it's also about the culture of the club - silence is ideal for play but not at all friendly, quiet chatter is normally fine, but I'd not want to play a…
NOS?
Non-offending Side?
In a moral rather than law sense?60A1 is interesting in that it clarifies that a LOOT is different to a premature lead. That helped me as OOT isn’t defined.
I do get that the revoke penalties favour swift resolution over precision, and that this scenario is akin to a revoke as offender is incorrectly preserving cards for later use. As with a harmless revoke, you can end up worse-off than without.
Law 57 covers Premature Leads and Plays - but covers every scenario apart from Declarer's Lead.