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Going and getting checked out by your doctor is a great idea - much more likely to put your mind at ease - either way. If he's napping a lot sleep apnea is a definite possibility. Also, if you're a heavy sleeper you may be unaware of your husband's sleep patterns at night. There are many other things that can be associated with sleep problems that need to be checked out - high blood pressure for one.

Fixed! Please buy your friend a coffee for me

There are many diseases (and drugs) that can reduce cognitive ability. As we age, some of these can happen at the same time making a "straightforward" diagnosis very difficult. To make things even more difficult no two people experience the same disease process the same way. It is also possible for one person to experience more than one degenerative problem at the same time - or sequentially. This problem is made even more frustrating with disorders that affect the mind because it is very hard to objectively assess "thinking" unless major deficits are present. There are no simple X-rays (although imaging techniques are making a lot of progress in helping to understand brain function) to say how badly affected a person's mind is. "Brain atrophy" on an MRI/CT or plain X-ray doesn't say much about brain function, and is common as people age.

Perhaps just visiting?

Primum non nocere - if only it were true.

Same here - works on other pages in the forum but not with this one.

"Wall builder" convicted:

Yesterday a news item appeared in which it was asserted that picking your nose may cause Alzheimer's disease. Here's the paper. It turns out that Chlamydia pneumoniae (no, not that chlamydia) is the culprit if you're a mouse:

It's appalling that Bridge players think. If they keep this up who knows where it will end.

No more shakin goin on - Jerry Lee Lewis

Yep, this is the only situation where I've seen this. And copying the file to a text file and manually changing the lin file part to uppercase fixes the problem allowing bridgesolver to understand it. Interesting.

This hand was bid and played by 4 robots. The handviewer reproduces it correctly, but the information in the handviewer is wrong and bridgesolver can't understand it - see link below. [edit] You get the same fault if you click bridgesolver with this page too. [hv=https://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?bbo=y&lin=pn%7CRobot%2CRobot%2CRobot%2CRobot%7Cst%7C%7Cmd%7C1sat6ht8dtct987642%2Csq85ha974d852caq3%2Csj43hkj32daq743ck%2Csk972hq65dkj96cj5%7Crh%7C%7Cah%7Cboard%203%7Csv%7Ce%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7C1c%7Can%7Cminor%20suit%20opening%20--%203%2B%20%21c%3B%2011-21%20hcp%3B%2012-22%20total%20points%7Cmb%7Cd%7Can%7Ctakeout%20double%20--%202-%20%21c%3B%203-5%20%21d%3B%203-4%20%21h%3B%203-4%20%21s%3B%2012%2B%20total%20points%7Cmb%7Cr%7Can%7C4-%20%21c%3B%2010%2B%20hcp%3B%20opponents%20cannot%20play%20undoubled%20below%202n%7Cmb%7C1s%7Can%7Clength%20--%204%2B%20%21s%3B%2011-%20hcp%3B%2012-%20total%20points%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7Cd%7Can%7Cpenalty%20--%204-%20%21c%3B%204%2B%20%21s%3B%2010%2B%20hcp%3B%20opponents%20cannot%20play%20undoubled%20below%202n%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cpc%7Cs5%7Cpc%7Cs3%7Cpc%7Csk%7Cpc%7Csa%7Cpc%7Cdt%7Cpc%7Cd2%7Cpc%7Cda%7Cpc%7Cd6%7Cpc%7Cd7%7Cpc%7Cdj%7Cpc%7Cs6%7Cpc%7Cd8%7Cpc%7Ch8%7Cpc%7Cha%7Cpc%7Ch2%7Cpc%7Ch5%7Cpc%7Csq%7Cpc%7Cs4%7Cpc%7Cs9%7Cpc%7Cst%7Cpc%7Cca%7Cpc%7Cck%7Cpc%7Cc5%7Cpc%7Cc2%7Cpc%7Cs8%7Cpc%7Csj%7Cpc%7Cs7%7Cpc%7Cc7%7Cpc%7Cd4%7Cpc%7Cd9%7Cpc%7Cc8%7Cpc%7Cd5%7Cpc%7Cs2%7Cpc%7Cc9%7Cpc%7Ch4%7Cpc%7Ch3%7Cpc%7Ccj%7Cpc%7Cct%7Cpc%7Ccq%7Cpc%7Chj%7Cpc%7Ch9%7Cpc%7Chk%7Cpc%7Ch6%7Cpc%7Cht%7Cpc%7Cdq%7Cpc%7Cdk%7Cpc%7Cc6%7Cpc%7Cc3%7Cpc%7Chq%7Cpc%7Cc4%7Cpc%7Ch7%7Cpc%7Cd3%7C]400|300|[/hv] Bridgesolver sees this.

Here's one major difference - it uses Gambling 3NT. [hv=https://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?bbo=y&lin=ZZ%7C%7Cpn%7Cpilowsky%2CRobot%2CRobot%2CRobot%7Cst%7C%7Cmd%7C4SJ2H52DAKQ9862CA4%2CSA853HJT94D4CKT52%2CSKT97HK876D53CQ96%2CSQ64HAQ3DJT7CJ873%7Csv%7CE%7Cah%7CBoard%206%7Cmb%7CP%7Cmb%7C3N%21%7Can%7CHCP%209-13%3B%20Gambling%2C%20solid%207-card%20minor%20-%20Non%20forcing%7Cmb%7CP%7Cmb%7CP%7Cmb%7CP%7Cpc%7CHJ%7Cpc%7CH6%7Cpc%7CH3%7Cpc%7CH2%7Cpc%7CH4%7Cpc%7CH7%7Cpc%7CHQ%7Cpc%7CH5%7Cpc%7CHA%7Cpc%7CS2%7Cpc%7CHT%7Cpc%7CH8%7Cpc%7CDJ%7Cpc%7CDA%7Cpc%7CD4%7Cpc%7CD3%7Cpc%7CSJ%7Cpc%7CSA%7Cpc%7CS7%7Cpc%7CS4%7Cpc%7CS3%7Cpc%7CSK%7Cpc%7CS6%7Cpc%7CC4%7Cmc%7C9%7C]400|300|[/hv]

atm I'm sitting on 51.85% with ~20 hours to go. Considering I know about as much about Acol as I know about particle physics I'm pretty chuffed . The provisional results window has a tab that leads to the 2/1 system notes, so that could be changed.

The free ACOL (sic) individual Daylong, with actual Acol-like bidding. Are there any system notes?

Climate change doesn't happen overnight. Give it another couple of hundred years.

I just discovered that he had a colleague - Charles Kuralt - which is somewhat slightly assonant, so maybe that explains the curious case of Kuralt and Cronkite?

Was he related to Walter? And does that explain why so many people think that it is what it is? Because, in the end "that's the way it is".

Richard Pavlicek has produced a collection of Bridge calculators that might help.

A link to the official Ukrainian news agency.

Just to be clear Chess.com claims that Niemann cheated more than he admitted in the . btw he's 19 y.o. atm so 16 is not that long ago.Apparently nobody is asserting that HN cheated in a FIDE sanctioned tournament. What MC seems to have asserted is that he does not have confidence in playing against someone that has confessed to cheating. The phrase "private game" conjures up an image of 4 people who are .This isn't the case. In the new-fangled age of the inter-thingy online games are considered important.

And now Niemann has filed suit against the herd.

Things are looking gloomy on the democracy front:

If you google Hans Niemann - Magnus Carlsen you'll be inundated with "hits". Briefly, unlike Bridge where cheating is completely unknown - chess players fret constantly over the possibility that their opponents have access to the double-dummy (aka - Stockfish/Leela/Alphazero). COVID (which is going to be blamed for everything for the next 50 years) created a perfect storm in the chess world because all play moved online. A secondary factor in chess (in very sharp distinction to Bridge) is that the best players are commonly under. the age of 19 as opposed to Bridge where the median age is over 90. Recently at the Sinquefield Cup - played in St Louis Mo. - (one of the most prestigious/richest) chess invitationals a very strong grandmaster (in chess being a grandmaster actually means something) by the name of Richard Rapport had to pull out at the last minute and was replaced by Hans Niemann (19 yo US GM - quite strong but untested). Niemann was previously banned from chess.com (more than once) because of cheating - which he confessed to. When Carlsen played him in STL Mo. Carlsen lost. The next day Carlsen withdrew intimating in a now-famous tweet that Niemann may have cheated. At which point Elon Musk tweeted that Niemann must have been getting signals from vibrating anal beads. yadda yadda yadda Endless arguments about whether or not cheating online matters vis a vis OTB. Or to put it another way, if you discover that a weevil is eating your dough by falsely inflating the value of the bread, should he put in charge of running the world's largest economy? Maybe we need to reopen a cheating thread?

Well - which is an even more dangerous place than pescetom's bridge club - was unimpressed by Rowson.