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This is your mistake here. In chess both are offensive and therefore the game is very much the same features to be used. Until some certain step of course then it might be more tricky. In bridge it is so from beginning - you have the offensive and the defensive party. Their options in the game are very different. Mostly it is the offensive part which needs to think about how to defend their features best possible. In 25% of the boards the defensive part bids nothing much but PASS.

I didn't know this option was there on Yahoo. I really didn't know they cared at all about seriousity. It is an option I know for sure on ZONE. As the application there initially was programmed by Fred I have always wondered why it was never implemented on BBO.

Not 4-1-4-4, then he will raise to 3♥. 6-1 fit always acceptable for partscore. Create a FD-file. If you post your convention card it will help you to get these kind of difficult sequences right. Anyhow the creation process will help you to ensure your carefully thoughts have been right. Your partner need to know what the double means as it is alert-requiring. Maybe ask your partner what DBL means here Brian.

I can always find something better than a double raise for a strong hand. I will assume 3♥ to be preempt - or without discussion maybe mild invitational. I will be much surprised for 4NT rebid.

I see perspectives so I ask with 2NT. As I receive 3♠ response I raise to game.

You seems to have learned very little from last thread Wayne :angry:

some game interfaces do take over the windows environment so that nothing else can be used. Difficult to believe this can be true. Maybe you have just forgotten to uncheck the box 'Always on top'.

Then everything is fine and the thread and agony ends here. I think you ought to be suspicious as this thread was moved. This is a duspin thread.

As I assume time for your own location is correct here is World clock fixed at 1 pm Toronto, Canada

Ought not to be so difficult I think. I have suggested that to Fred once I remember. The simple solution is to include URL in your pre-alert.

Good question Kathryn. Those guys with all their shortcuts and talk for special invited audience. My guess is the same as yours - BIDK.

Bridgemovie is available off-line. In that way you will be able to emulate teaching table.

I have often wondered the same. Difficult to see the wisdom in adding communication problems to normal problems of learning the game.

Claus I seem to recall that your mentioning that you didn't have any experience as a programmer. It certainly comes across in your posts. I have a pretty good background in both statistics and software. What you're asking for would be a nightmare to design. I don't care whether such an application can be created or not. What I say is that it is poor moral to raise false accusations. If those persons raising suspicions have no proof or at least very strong indications of cheating - then they have to shut up. If they insist a solution is right to handle via software I am sure they will be welcome to come up with such themselves or alternatively to place a commercial order at BBO. The story is no longer than that I think.

You can ask for a lot of functionality which are likely never to be implemented in free service. At the other end you may ask for penalty cards, cheating filters etc. What you ask for here I see as a trickle down effect.

Please note and take care about Messenger. 'Rules for these sites' below: http://bridgefiles.net/Picture/BBO-a1.jpg

I agree that cheating is a serious problem Poor moral standard to accuse others without any kind of proof for what you would never dream of doing yourself. I would like to think that a screening program could be written to mine the hand archives for extreme results that could flag potential cheaters for surveillance. You only need to offer your service. We need proofs. False accusations can be used for nothing than proving yourself non-serious.

The software is mostly very simple to understand and to use. Features are obvious and self-explaining. Colors are all customizeable - so please define the meaning of each yourself. You will quickly be familiar to the default color scheme. For more specialized features you have help clicking the red help-button, down to the right incl. posting convention cards.

Please put up your identity and your credentials melviss666. I am sure we are all very interested to be able to track your record.

I really dont know and thats a problem. But we need to find ways for something and especially we need to establish contact to some on other playing sites, especially ZONE. I agree it is not very likely to come from any of the present organizations. I think board members are mostly recruited from appealing commitees. I know Jens Auken is lawyer so I assume that kind of proffessions are well represented in those kind of bodies. Those kind of professions provides the ability to take some days off for international meetings. With more professions with such opportunities, homework and IT-professionals there some day will be other kind of people in such bodies too. Those from appeal commitees have a narrow perspective focussing on details/paragraphs and I hope for that other kind of skills will help to broadening the perspective. But lets come back to what you earlier called thin air. I think some need some day to take an initiative. Not that such will be perfect and will gain success in first try. Then perhaps next time or next time again. Several re-constructions will be foreseenable in such a development process. It is unlikely there are going to be any kind of help from somebody within the establishment. Top-players with this kind of opinion also need to think of their current position and maybe carreeer within bridge. Some of the prominent ones are doing this for a living so they will not support until a success is in sight. Nobody is well served with the present situation. We will never see people take this online game serious unless they will be forced to or at least have an offer which will be able to compete with what they think they can find locally. This means I think it will be needed that playgrounds offer a platform according to a set of rules. BBO is probably the best one today but I doubt it will be possible to have the necessary modifications, they are many, without introducing payment subscriptions. Payments will as well be disciplining as help lifting reputation.

If so Ed there would be less trouble in this Forum. People are signing up again and again for ACBL. I think they are right to do so - as I think Gwen and her staff are the only ones with high aspirations. The problem is as soon they make a mistake some people think they are justified in rallying the organizers appealing to this Forum instead of being loyal. And all too many posters paying lips to trouble makers proving nothing but disloyalty.

I certainly dont know who Bill Gates talks with but perhaps he is referring to his visits in Denmark. There are much invention in this area in Denmark, called intelligent robot technology. Areas like health care and shopping are on the list. The first intelligent robots are likely to be introduced in 2-3 years. I think we in Denmark are great fans of a visionare persons like Bill Gates. We certainly appreciate he is aware of the danish knowledge potential - thats why he has one of his most important development centres in Denmark.

Ed sorry - I didnt click your www button. I simply didn't notice. I enjoy a lively debate on a friendly basis with any decent person. I dont like persons who are not ready to stand for their expressed views and I think most on internet, not only in bridge sites and not only BBO but also them, are doing a poor job favoring fools by giving them a much to easy ride. I am not saying the laws are rubbish - not at all. I say they are not in effect on internet because the authority to enforce is missing. Therefore it is pure rubbish to refer to them as paragraph 1, 2, 3 etc. It is not rubbish to extract the general meaning of those. For specific organizers and events it is just perfect to include those rules or any other rules. The authority is there. It is still a bit problematic to discuss rules not aimed for the platform where they are used. Much confusions seems to arise in this Forum due to that.

I dont think we need to argue very much. We are along the same lines but not in details. I think there are much differences but certainly not in basics which constitute we play bridge and not any other kind of card game. I also think the re-itering debates about violations of non-existing rules ought to be an eyeopener to somebody that something is needed to be done. Something is needed to establish rules for online games but I also think the old world of bridge need to look over their rules updating them to modern information technology standards. About WBF I think, but I really dont know, it is some kind of world association of national bridge federations. As I am member of no such one I think I am right. I dont play any of those tournaments I think you are referring to but for other reasons. I am a great fan of ACBL on BBO simply because they have high standards. Those attacking them can be happy I have nothing to do with ACBL because most of those would now already have been playing their last event there.

For the hyperactive I see what this is an euphemism for. You will not be welcome at my table.