MojoLA

The online message has some enticing updates for directors, but is sadly missing on details! How do we see a traveler during an event? I haven't found anything. (It says in "Tournament History" which I can't find.) (/v3) How small a game will be stratified now? What are the rules? How about some details on the new SECTIONSIZE hack? What if you have an odd number of tables? Morris Jones MojoLA vacb277210

I figured out a way to do it, but it's a little convoluted. First, the kibitzing students need to add the teacher's BBO ID to their Friends list. Then you have to NOT be on the Casual play server. Apparently the teaching tables are on the competitive or "home" server. When the table is live, click on the Host's name in the friends list, and notice the "Join" button in the title bar. Join the table. (Is that it?) Mojo

I have a practice session tonight with four students who will be playing in seats at a teaching table, and a couple others who will be kibitzing. I can see how to invite the players into seats. How do the kibitzers find the table? I created a table just now. I sat in one chair, and added three robots. The table doesn't seem to appear anywhere in the list of "tables to watch." It's not invisible and kibitzers are allowed. Mojo

Suppose you have a Favorite CC designated, and your partner agrees to use it in a tournament. When you "use" your favorite, it moves it to the card with that partner, and you no longer have a favorite CC. It should clone that card and use a copy of it for the partnership, keeping the Favorite CC intact. That would also allow the card to be selected and then have a few edits made for the individual partner, without trashing the original favorite card. Mojo

One could argue that NF Stayman is part of every system that includes Stayman, since it doesn't require a partnership agreement to invoke it. :) Mojo

I remember you barmar! :)

I was at the bridge club a few months ago when a young asian fellow stopped in to see how the games worked. The director invited him to kibitz my table, and I chatted with him a little between hands. He admitted that he enjoyed playing bridge and sometimes played online. And he mentioned that he played SAYC. I suspect that at my club, like most, if you say you play "SAYC" they'll answer, "what?" I wrote a blog post about how that happened, and my role in it. It was fun to think back on the history of online bridge, leave it for ten years, and come back to see how it has evolved. Here's my post -- you might enjoy it. :) http://mojo.whiteoaks.com/2010/09/27/how-sayc-happened/ Mojo

Awesome, it works fine on port 80! Gerardo, I'd have to pick one of the bbo.bridgebase.com servers by IP address and set up the SSH tunnel to go specifically to that one. Not a great solution. I can put bbo.bridgebase.com in my hosts table as 127.0.0.1 and it will feed the tunnel. Mojo

Hi! I'm in a situation where my firewall blocks port 9999. I can successfully connect to BBO using the old Windows client by setting up an SSH proxy, and editing bbover.ini to point to localhost where the proxy will forward the packets. Works fairly well. So is there a way I can do the same with the Flash client, or am I stuck with the old Windows client? Best regards, Mojo -- Morris Jones, Monrovia, CA http://bridgemojo.com