chicken

one of the best books ever for % freaks is "the dictionary of suit combinations" by roudinesco. all u ever/never wanted to know.

but it looks neat, without seals :-))))

ask fred. however remember that it is commercial software. reverse engineering of a dotw file is possible, but as i understood it not really wanted (and right they are!). i heard that u can buy the 1 year licence if u want to work with an editor.

some points to be made in favor of ucla this year i heard.... but after the huskies went down i will trust nobody :-)

that would be agood task for the bridgebrowser wouldn`t it? i wont mind playing against other scores than the original stuff if they are prooven by a sufficient number of deals. as far as i know the original list is based on the data of 2.500.000 boards.

i assume the average player wont play enough hands to even out the luck factor. i still wld appreciate (and use!) russian scoring with the human always beeing the declarer.

as a converter, generator, and analyzer still dealmaster pro with implemented deep finesse is unbeatable. only 4 the presentation of hands u need a program with a nice easy interface , here i use jackbridge.

agreed with roland. however great opps not realizing that they are supposed to have written a 70% score, 3nt beeing cold with 6!d and 3 aces. :-)

as far as i know SEF and German FORUM D+ play it as 5-5 17+HCP

i guess partnership bidding was not designed to create hands. whatever it is, i suggest to use dealmaster pro, jack or another suited device.

1.) u can play monoimp, playing against the expectancy of makeable contracts according to the HCP ur side holds. downside: any standard game with 22 shapish hcp is rewarded with a gameswing in imps. the scale can be downloaded on our homepage if u want to give it a try. 2.) we play a competition called "play with the stars" regularly in our club, but u need a lot of time, or a machine to duplicate boards. (thank god, we have such a machine) u just have to duplicate one of the zillions of lin-files in nikos archive and write down the already played results, then u can play a regular teammatch parding the bridgecelebrities at the other table. (u obviously better chose a close match, to even up the chances.)

hm.... still no hit.

if u dont play negfree bids 3♦ is sign off, because u didnt bid them in 1st round. for the same reason i dont like the x because a 2♥ bid first wld have solved a lot of problems.

ok, so ben maybe can remove this thread :-)))))

if i am not too blind, there is hardly a possibility to get dates/times of the lecture hall in advance. that should be changed somehow.

i treat it slightly weaker than a regular overcall because of the distributional advantage, but i know people playing it unlimited.

look @ my nick. 3♦

hm..... do you share the intermediates with the bil-lounge or did u make an agreement with maureen and the rest when a billie should leave BIL and enter your club?

Sorry, I dont understand this. Surely there are no unfinished boards in an unclocked tournament, completely different thing to a clocked tournament. jb i tell the players and put it in tourney descr. that they have all the time they need (unclocked tourney), but i will adjust all boards which are not finished after 36 minutes (when playing assumed 6min/board in a 8 board tourney. so the tourney runs smooth, because everybody can play in his/her tempo. the very slow players will get an AVE= on usually one board( no 6) but very often everybody catches up. normally i have one adjustment when playing a 20 table tourney this way.

i think afk within an already finished round makes no good reason for blacklisting, however the rest of the reasons can be found in my list as well, but 90% of blacklisting are for leaving a tourney.

the problem is, that very often u will find reasons and excuses which are not as obvious as a valid claim. therefore i prefer to do unclocked tourneys and adjust the boards which are not finished until last but one round. (e.g.: adjust after board 6/8 when playing 8/10 board tourney) this makes it about 3 adjustments in the whole tourney playing with 20 tables because usually the players catch up with the easy boards.

germany? where in germany caren? come to us, BCY fritzlar, i am 43 and one of the oldest there :-)))).

agreed

i would like to have bbo leagues, and it would be a nice thing if team games were easier to arrange. ( to get players out of a sortable pool?, better filter options?, turn lobbychat off but still be able to play?)

i think u did everything according to the rules. if u think that the pair should be penalized because of the talking then a procedural penalty should take place, but in my opinion this is no UI problem.