michael
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You need two-thirds of the field to be registered or it won't be able to grade it, so it's worth registering the players as soon as possible if you have any reason to believe they'll retu…
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Bandwidth is not a problem - we have loads of that, and we're not exactly streaming video. It seems to be the number of requests, not the size of requests, that slows it down.
The new server benchmarks about ten times faster than the curr…
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Thanks Stan. Someone else mentioned this today, actually, so clearly something is up. I was aware that the website was occasionally slow in the mornings when there were lots of visitors, but hadn't realised there were evening problems too. There …
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@00403545 - this essentially already exists. If you log onto My EBU after the event and look at your session history, the Par column gives you your performance compared to exp…
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167 replies across 22 threads is "nothing"?
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Interesting that you're getting around the requirement for a 2♣ hand to be "strong" by including some weaker hands in the agreement and calling it a multi, but you're not prepared to do this for 1♣ which is just as flexible, if not mor…
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My problem with handicapped events is that if you control for skill in bridge all you're left with is luck, so this is no better than a lottery. The standard argument against this is that people can "have a good day" or "play above themselves", b…
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Would you really run a club night with a two-winner movement, but a one-winner handicap result? That seems like the only time when there might be an appreciable difference between the SOpp of competing pairs, but even then you could get around it…
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A bit out of left-field, but my suggestion would be to develop the Summer Meeting beyond bridge and have it become a Mind Sports Festival. I don't know much about the new venue, but back in the Brighton days I used to look at those huge empty hal…
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I thought it was worth fact-checking this, so I pulled the entry list for the 2005 Brighton Swiss Pairs and compared it with this year's entry. I can only use today's NGS grades, so this makes the rather large assumption that the 2005 …
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Serious golf events don't use handicaps. And handicaps only exist in horse racing to facilitate gambling. That's not to say that handicapped events in bridge shouldn't exist, but I don't think their place is in national tournaments.
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I'm not sure I agree with this. The scoring system is a fundamental part of any game - perhaps the most fundamental part. It tells you what the goal is and informs (or should do) every decision you make. All the other rules are just th…
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Probably not, but if they asked their team-mate or manager would they be penalised?
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I'm trying to think of another game or sport where players are not allowed to find out the rules of the game they're playing while they're playing it.
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It would also have to follow RO18 in first and second seat, which does restrict it a bit - you couldn't open 5431 8-counts with 1!c, or 4333 10-counts.
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I can't, but that's what this post is for. Someone here will be able to explain what you need to do.
I'd be careful of doing that, though, since they'd all have access to membership information of all the clubs, and you might r…
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This might be a good time to remind people that they can log in to multiple accounts at once in My EBU. Information here. At some point I'll…
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The two APIs behave identically in this respect, so there shouldn't be any difference. Takes around 0.6 to 0.8 seconds to retrieve a record, so for most fields this should be done in a minute or so.
And it doesn't time out when it hits a …
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It's just a file on a website - we have no control over how browsers download it. Edge does seem to behave a bit weirdly with this, though. It seems it guesses that it's an HTML file and offers to change the file name to suit. But it doesn't do t…
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I'm not entirely sure what will happen either. There doesn't seem to be an update to this software yet to support the regular Google Sign On. You might want to go to your in Google Plus Comment by michael March 2019
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Their first names are both "BBO" and their last names are "Bot A" and "Bot B". You can call them what you like, but you might want to use these so that the submission system doesn't complain.
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I've just set up two EBU numbers for the BBO bots: 00900000 and 00900001. They were born today (happy birthday!) so it'll be 25 years before anyone has to pay their Universal Membership!
This is for BBO bots only. If any other bots come a…
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The CSV file updates every morning, so new people will appear then. It's worth pointing out, though, that only current EBU members go into that file, so they won't show if you haven't made them a member yet.
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It might be quite fun to give the bots two EBU numbers (it has to be two, because the system doesn't like individuals playing twice in a session) and see where their NGS ends up.
If we make the bots juniors then you won't get charged for …
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And people who have played for a long time and enter lots of stronger events tend (on average, and with plenty of counter-examples) to be better bridge players.
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I used to hate on master points too, but if you look at the data they're actually a pretty good indicator of strength. There are exceptions, of course, and they're the ones you notice, but the correlation is still quite strong. I made a graph of …
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If I was learning programming from scratch, I doubt I'd buy a book these days. YouTube will have loads of great tutorials, and reference websites will be much more useful than a quickly obsolete book. Once you've learned the basics, the best way …
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If you mark the text with backticks, it'll turn it into a fixed-width font. You can do this inline,
like this, or in a block.in Testing Layouts of Posts Comment by michael October 2018 -
It's certainly not ideal for formatting bridge hands, but you can use the code format (from the format dropdown, or with backticks). Like this:
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Your 1 in 20 calculation is for a single hand, so you shouldn't add your wife's voids to your total. The probability of there being one or more voids in a deal is closer to 1 in 5.