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"Few players are good enough to tell others how they should play bridge. Even fewer can do so in the emotional atmosphere of the table." F Stewart

On BBO you explain your own bid and they can ask during the auction.

Now, that's what I would have said if they were asking questions prior to leading, but, you're still in a live auction. So, first of all, you don't explain your own bids in a live auction. Your partner should be explaining what you've agreed that your bids should show. Obviously, there is always lee-way for discretion. As I recently read someone quote on these forums: Basically, you explain what your bids should show, as you've agreed, but you don't guarantee that your agreements perfectly reflect your actual holding on this hand. Not that this necessarily applies in this situation. I can't really imagine why the player left the table. If you've properly explained your agreements in a situation, and fulfilled your responsibilities, your opponent has no recourse unless you've committed some sort of infraction. Of course, you should welcome questions, but at some point, they've got to move along or you're going to call the director to make them do so.

I tell my partners that I have learned so much from my mistakes that I think I make some more.

Going over the hands is a great learning tool...but not at the table. I consider it to be rude to criticize or teach partner at the table (unforgivable to do that to an opponent). It tends to embarrass a partner more than it helps. With partnerships I care about, I discuss hands after the session.

Yes, this is the one great failing of the robots: they have not yet been taught how to be snarky, critical or impatient. (No wonder they're so popular.) Perhaps with the advent of A.I. .... 8-)

This depends on the personality of the partner, I actually like partners to tell me particularly when I haven't noticed. It tends to wake me up, but I play with some partners to whom I can't say anything.

Apart from being right or wrong it is also useless. The late S.J. Simon wrote: "Tell your partner he made a mistake and he will make another next hand, prove it he it wil cost you 4 hands". Maarten Baltusseb

Xfer then show shortage, avoids 3nt without a stopper.