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I'm not sure if this belongs in BBO Support or Suggestions for the software as I don't know if it's intended behaviour or not. When browsing my results I notice that I don't have access to results of recent Instant Tournaments I have played. For example, today is 13 March 2022 and the results of all instant tourneys on or before 24 February 2022 are not available to view. It simply says "No Results Found". I also can't access these hands on the My Hands page as BBO does not seem to keep these. I understand that there is perhaps limited server space but as I am paying to enter these tournaments, I would expect them to be kept somewhere, at least for a period longer than one month! Hands I play for free in the Main Bridge Club are kept much longer.

I check GIB's description for bids 90% of the time but I didn't even think of checking this time. There is no way this 3NT bid should be anything but natural. https://tinyurl.com/yfg8vlsj

Funny you should say this. I played this problem yesterday and took the line you suggest (although assume you mean K♦ not Q).

Damn I totally missed the registration for this one. Any chance I could fill in for a GIB? No problem if not

Thanks Nige! It's a lot of fun. It takes some getting used to and I'm finding I'm making a few more mistakes than usual out of not wanting to take long tanks but very enjoyable.

Since any live bridge is going to be limited for the foreseeable future I'm trying my hand at some online streaming on Twitch with live video commentary. Recently, chess has undergone a huge boom in online play and a few weeks ago the number one English language streamer on Twitch was a chess player (Hikaru Nakamura). Really incredible when you consider how popular games like Fortnite and Call of Duty are. It would be great to see our game have some success on the platform as well. :) You can follow the channel here: https://www.twitch.tv/ambrosebridge I can't commit to a regular streaming schedule but I try to update the Twitch schedule a few days in advance and stick to it. At some point I'll be doing some joint casts with others and possibly some "alternative" Vugraph commentary as well. Any suggestions about style/format etc are very welcome.

I just wanted to go on record to say that I really hate the experience of reviewing hands in the new HTML BBO. I used to enjoy this as much as playing and now it sucks. When you review hands, the board only appears in a small window in the bottom right-hand corner so the focus of your attention only takes up about 1/8 of the screen. This is a cardinal user interface sin. More annoyingly, resizing the pane does not help - the board stays exactly the same size. Compare the old Flash version where you could super-impose the hand review window over the rest of the site and actually have it in the center of the screen. I now just log into the flash version to review hands but obviously not a sustainable solution. End gripe.

GG Povratnik. Well played. I got quote lucky on some of the big swings there. Thanks for organising smerriman.

Yeah I was glad to see it passed us both out in a game force... <_< Another one to be paranoid about

broze 34 - heart76 5 GG heart

Round 1: broze 32 - heart76 34 Round 2: broze 25 - heart 76 5 Just completed my hands for match 3

Shall we crack on with second round Smerriman?

Ha yes true! We shall see...

Oof! 2nd by 0.01 VP at the last match. Congrats Povratnik

broze 69 - Natali_ 23

broze 67 - sep123 26

broze 73 - ye17 6

broze 28 - Garant_7 8

broze 5 - shuba 34

Okay we know that GiB's slam bidding is bad but it doesn't seem to want to bid a grand even when it "knows" it is ice cold as in this hand.

broze 37 - barmar 15

broze 47 - muddylane 34

broze 29 - hrothgar 29

broze 35 - cherdano 8 Sorry for GIB lunacy on board 10

broze 13 - billyfung2 16