TimG

Still playing these mods?

Does this work for non-FD CCs too? I created an ACBL CC last night. I added my partner's name to it. I saved it. My partner reports not finding it today. I suspect operator error (mine), but want to confirm that this should work.

Internet Explorer seems to be working. I did not think to have him change browsers because Firefox works fine for me....

Seemed easier to use my phone since I was not going to be posting from his computer. No bother of looking for an app to paste it into and then saving and sending to me before posting.

The sliver that appears below hrair's hand is the King of hearts. If you mouse over it (or maybe click on it) the rest of the card will appear. Notice the yellow "it's this player's turn to act" aura over the top of hrair's name even htough it is santino10's turn to act. http://www.ghsbuzz.com/images/bboa.jpg

I do not know whether he has changed magnification. But, it is not a matter of the images being too small, it is a matter of only part of the image displaying or not displaying at all. Still, I will suggest changing the magnification.

My father is experiencing what I would best describe as video lag. Cards played do not always appear and sometimes appear only partially. A trick might be played and the cards will disappear from the hands, and a new quitted trick appears, but the cards played never appear in the middle of the table. The yellow "aura" that appears around a player's name when it is their turn to bid/play does not always fully disappear when it is no longer their turn. The login window is missing the top 1/3. Often clicking on the partial card (or anywhere else) kicks things in and gets them to appear properly (but this is not very useful when no cards to a player trick ever appear in the middle of the table). He's running Windows 7 on an 3.3 GHz machine with 4GB memory. I don't know what kind of video card he has, but it would be whatever was standard with such a system. He is using the web based version of BBO. Hoping for suggestions.

I believe the critical part to card memory is to put it in context of the whole hand. I was once told of a study done with chess masters. They were presented with a board with some pieces on it and given some number of seconds to memorize the position, then asked to duplicate the position. Players were very good at recalling the positions that came from actual games, not so good at memorizing the random assortment of pieces. I believe the same sort of thing applies to bridge. If a player notes a card played because of its significance in the hand, that is much more likely to be remembered than if the cards being played are considered a random assortment of cards. If you look at a lead and notice that it is the lowest outstanding spot or that there is one lower outstanding (and note the importance of that) you are more likely to remember the card played than if you just try to remember it was the three and make the connection three tricks later. That sort of thing.

An internet search did not produce any VP scale for MP matches. Others have also mentioned it. Can someone provide a link? This makes it sound like Swiss pairs and matchpoint pairs are different. Can't Swiss pairs be scored by matchpoint? Or, am I misunderstanding?

If Swiss Pairs are common in the part of the bridge world in which you live, would you mind sharing the types of events and format used? Club games or larger events? One-session or multi-session events? How many boards per round? Are round results converted to VP? Typically IMP or MP scoring? Thanks.

ACBL ought to be using the masterpoint formula to encourage two-day premier events rather than discouraging them. I recently noticed (because of an ad on Bridge Winners) that the Flying Pig regional in Cincinnati includes a two-day pair event. Even though I am not a contender in such an event, it is the sort of event that would increase my interest in a regional. The tournament flyer claimed something like "mid-west's only two-day pair event". I looked around at regional schedules as a result and found them quite disappointing. Most have a bazillion events with no clear "premier" event on any given day. One regional cut through the messiness of scheduling by running the same events every day Tuesday through Saturday: A/B/C Pairs (open stratified); bracketed round robin teams; and Golden Opportunity Pairs (750 MP limit). It is strange to me that such a regional has any appeal.

For 2016 I found: Gatlinburg 8323 Rancho Mirage 3931 Hilton Head 3567 Penticon 3156 Houston 3057 Sarasota 3056 Atlanta 3015 Monterey 2860 Orlando 2760 Raleigh 2602 Charlotte 2570 Santa Clara 2502 Las Vegas 2406 Myrtle Beach 2348

When you do 95% pairing, am I correct in assuming that the 95% of boards that have been played are scored for pairing purposes? At least 8 rounds? So, an evening of four seven-board rounds would not be desirable no matter the size of the field?

Does ACBLScore support Swiss Pairs? What software do you use with the BridgeMates? This software has the option of staggering the pairings or waiting until all boards are complete? Or, do you manually indicate when to start pairings? Are there minimum field sizes that make Swiss Pairs feasible? Or, small sizes that make a regular MP event a better option?

No masterpoints for shorter matches? Seems reasonable, but also awarding masterpoints for shorter matches (meaning more people win masterpoints) also seems like a possible draw.