ericvlad19

What a superficial (not to say silly) idea :) Why would I ever play for my country or any other entity??? ... Oh, I see that inevitably the 95% of bbo I mentioned before is creeping slowly into this topic too :) To cut it short: I will answer only to posts coming from the 5% minority. The rest is waste (of time too :) ).

It's clear that we do not have the same criteria in perceiving a bridge player. You prefer the bells and whistles of bbo profile package... I prefer the raw content of the person. The best for each one of us is to pursue his own way of "reading" people. That means our roads are splitting now.

As long as bbo does not provide a methodology for determining the skill level, everybody is free to choose any option. There are Beginners with 5000+ logins... If after 5000 logins you are still Beginner, than it's something very wrong... :) More disappointing is when you see Yellow Stars playing lousy. And the stars are given by bbo itself... No further comments :) So, regardless your (self-awarded) skill level, any decent person on bbo will face BIG issues in finding a decent partner. For example 2 of my partners simply refuse to use bbo due to the low REAL (not that self-awarded) skill level of the players. Others more permissive, like myself, continue to hope that one day will find one of the 5% gems hidden among 95% mediocrity... Because how can you call players not able to detect even a Blackwood or a takeout dbl... Can we talk anymore about skill levels in these conditions? A very good option for bbo is to award the skill levels based on a quiz, when you register and anytime later. It would be also fun, not only very useful... Coming back to systems... Out of your options, I will choose without hesitation Precision. In my opinion, out of all systems, any Strong Club (not only Precision) gives you the biggest pleasure to play bridge.

Yes, I'll be glad to try it. Unfortunately I couldn't find myself a material describing the "real", "original" Fantunes. I found a lot of "sort of Fantunes", "Fantunes simplified" and so on... I'd like to simplify it myself, if it's necessary, not to get the versions of some doubtful authors. So, if you can provide the original version I'll be happy to study and play it.

The topic title is self explanatory. Time zone is not relevant as long as I am available anytime.