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That it is the tournament director's job to have the game run as the players expect, and it is a reasonable instruction for the director to require uniformity of procedures in their game, even if the laws do not specify this procedure.…
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Did you penalize them?
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If other players object, the director should instruct dummy to display his hand in the usual way. Not just this hand but throughout the event.
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Re "defined but not used"
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If players attempt to do this deliberately, they need to be aware
1. The opponents may accept the insufficient bid and your side will not know what the insufficient bid and subsequent bids mean
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The Modified IMP for teams of eight is basically add the scores and divide by root2 and convert to IMPs
For teams 0f twelve, the further modified score is obtained by dividing by root3.
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Law 27D awards redress for damage for the original infraction, not for damage for using the information from the infraction/rectification.
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This hand might have bid 3S instead of 2S, and many would not want to defend 3H with a 9-card spade fit.
But doubtless Pass is a logical alternative and you should adjust to the score for 3H making some number of tricks.
I would n…
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I assume that 2C is an overcall and the 1NT/2NT is by responder.
There is no UI. Opener is allowed to bid as if 2NT = I wanted to bid 1NT and now bid 2NT to keep the auction open.
If they make 2NT for a good score and would not r…
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3D is using UI. 4D and 5D are logical alternatives.
If East were to try 4NT over 4D, bidding to show 1 aces is a logical alternative to pass.
I would poll West's bid over 2NT and award 4D= if 5D is not a logical alternative, 5D-1 is … -
There is a messy calculation you can do using adjustments.
See the penultimate page of the EBUScore manual - 'Law 15 Sitout'
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A penalty does not necessarily relate to a particular board. A top can only be the common top to which all boards in a session are scored, as the previous posters have said.
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We hope to publish a public draft in June. There will be something on the Laws & Ethics pages of the website and I will post something here.
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I think you should disclose relevant knowledge that that the opponents might not know.
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If the opponents do not play transfers, or have not seen this sequence before, then they will not have had to work this out for themselves, and are not required to. They are entitled to an alert, and to an explanation which explains the bridge …
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I would alert because 3C says something about another suit (spades).
I would explain that I could have a hand that wanted to play 2S, so any bid above 2S from opener must show (4+) spade support, and probably a maximum, partner may intend…
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I have seen this for various versions - skipping the "club" files will create a workable EBUScore installation.
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There are two problems:
1. The existing guidelines allow experienced player to bully less experienced players (when the less experienced players want to ask questions to understand what is going on)
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The small subfield formula does not apply to averages, ave+/ave/ave- equate to 60%/50%/40% of the top based on the maximum times any board is played.
The remanining four scores are too many for the EBU small subfield formula to apply
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Not played will score the session for the pairs as if they had not played the board: their session score as a percentage is their percentage over the other boards.
50/50 or AVE/AVE will score the session as if the pairs played the board a…
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Boards are discounted if they are not scheduled to be played at all - or the movement is curtailed and they become "not scheduled". This is based on the principal of only scoring boards which are played.
If no result is possible on a boa…
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A few have tried teams of 6 (3 pairs playing) and having an odd number of tables does make the comparisons unbalanced.
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This is an "Ask Robin" question/answer I wrote for the Discovery magazine due in the summer.
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A new blue book is being finalised and will be effective from August - it includes a major revision of alerting doubles and many more annoucements. We intend to publish a public draft at the end of this month.
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Bridgewebs and Pianola give statistics for each players play. If it is a one-winner pairs movement, the systems have to know where "North" sits when the pair plays EW. Both systems make the same assumptions - Bridgewebs displays this assumption…
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There is an answer to "Ask Robin" in a recent English Bridge, and this from the White Book
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Point 1: You could ask the players - but these days (no personal score cards) they dont remember the boards at the end of a a session. Assume the switch happened once, and assume it started with the first obviously wrong score.
Point 2: …
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In one partnership we played XX to play in C or D, and system on (2C stayman, red-suit transfers) - all for an easy life and against my better judgement
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This is a serious dilemma to which I have no easy answer. Some (players and regulators) expect every nuance of the alerting/announcing regulations to be reflected in the "summary" - which to me means it is going to be longer that the …
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The Blue Book is being revised for 2023. including changes to alerting and announcing - ducks
The alerting and announcing summary will need to be updated - which I will start on when the Blue Book changes stabilize. I agree HTML…