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nige1-olegru. 4th set http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:dcc2e2d5.93c1.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1476637152&u=olegru 20:24, 4 for Olegru

Familiar hand. Sorry, I was extremely and undeservingly lucky in our match.

stephen tu-olegru part 1 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:5201c748.8f3b.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1476139562&u=olegru 13:53 (40 for olegru) stephen tu-olegru part 2 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:5b790497.8f9d.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1476181668&u=olegru 26:22 (4 for stephen tu) stephen tu-olegru part 3 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:2da2dff2.9017.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1476233990&u=olegru 21:41 (20 for olegru)

ovncylmz-olegru Fourth set: 33-13 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:c8864c9e.8dc7.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1475979988&u=olegru

ovncylmz-olegru Third set: 21-24 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:56af6d28.8dbb.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1475974643&u=olegru

Barmar - Olegru Set 3 out of 4: http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:8f99ad65.8c40.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1475811959&u=olegru 49:23 (26 for Barmar) Set 4 out of 4: http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:d48873bd.8cf0.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1475887666&u=olegru 21:41 (20 for Olegru)

Barmar - Olegru Set 1 out of 4: http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:239a94e7.8a8f.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1475625806&u=olegru 19:31 (12 for Olegru) Set 2 out of 4: http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:6733a76b.8b5e.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1475714825&u=olegru 8:47 (39 for Olegru)

Sorry for oftopic. When I just moved to New York from Russia and got my first job here I had to send email to several people about errors in script I found. Instead of word "erroneous" I typed "erogenous". ... In about the same time I sent another email about incorrectness in some excel spreadsheet. The final sentence of my email supposed to be "I am advising to stop using that sheet." You can guess what kind of mistake I made in a word "sheet." In about 5 minutes after clicking the send button I got a phone call from my boss. He said that he completely sharing my opinion about that document, but here in USA we are not using some words in official emails. The funnies thing that wrong word did not change meaning of my message even a bit.

Impressive! Now zebutin just have to win that event.

I looked at "tentative R16" in the dropbox and noticed the proposition that I will play with barmar. I have no problem with it, just would like to mention in case if the fact that Barry and me played RR in the same group was missed. Once again, no complains, I am happy with that and would be equally happy with any other assignment.

diana_eva - olegru Tied 12:12 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:c0b6719e.87e6.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1475333582&u=olegru

olegru - phoenix214 = 37:17 (+20 olegru) http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:1174a78e.8351.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1474829488&u=olegru

I am in, if not too late

Hi Winston. I checked NBC debacle. Well ... My apologies. If year ago somebody told me I would vote for Clinton, I would call him crazy.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/

Hi Diana, Thanks for information, sorry for being wrong. Do you know if requests like that handling by bridgebase employee or by ACBL?

Hi Bbradley62, Your analogy is not as close as it seems on the first glance. If I know that some pair was been reported to the recorder all what I know is that somebody suspected that pair or some incident took place. Even if I am the somebody who reported, I am still not in the position to know the pair in question cheats. The task to proof cheating by reasonable standards in F2F game is the next to impossible for a regular player. All what he could do is to send suspicious incidents to recorder. I guess majority of calls to recorder is just noise. It is very different from online game where a player has opportunity to check archive of suspected pair card by card. I cannot tell for other people, but I find inappropriate to send request to check a pair, until I am very sure they are cheating. By ”very sure” I mean the standard “beyond the reasonable doubts.” Of course, fact that I satisfied with conclusion beyond the reasonable doubts, does not necessary mean that 11 other people (or, in this case, people in authority position) will feel the same, but … according the forum rules I cannot give you evidence to check if you will be convinced beyond the reasonable doubts, you can just believe me or not. Another difference that in F2F tournaments no physical possibility to state that you will not play against a certain pair in such a way that nobody except the director will know about it. Hi Helene_t, You are right, TD doesn't have time to verify the evidence during the tournament, but responsible TD can do it after. In this particular case it will not take too much of TD personal time to realize that pair should be reported to authority and removed from acbl speedballs game ASAP. (Not sure if I am allowed to submit statistics of their results in order to prove the urgency.) I guess people on authority will check the request from TD with more respect than request of some random accuser like me.

Hi Caitlynne. You can believe or not, but I know what I am doing when I collecting evidence. I would not dream of sharing my suspicions unless I am sure than any more or less competent player who will check their archive of games will satisfied with hypothesis about their cheating beyond the reasonable doubts. It was not good results, failures to make mistakes or exact biding that makes that pair suspicious. It is exactly what you said: strange leads that works (100% About 30% of leads are strange, 10% are ridiculous after the bidding. I did not find a single bid that not fit the best to the partner suit); blast bids that are always right (what 2 losers are you talking about? I saw 5(five!) boards they leaped to grand slam!) I counted failures. 0(zero)! You are right, if cheaters are smart it could take thousands of hands and nobody will still know for sure. It was not a case here. I checked 84 (7*12) boards, it is more than enough in that particular case - stats is screaming.

olegru vs diana_eva 1st set 16 for diana_eva http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:ee4a66c5.6f22.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1472610649&u=olegru 2st set 0 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:0be26f60.6fe4.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1472693592&u=olegru diana_eva won by 16. Congrats!

I believe I will not break forum rules if will provide examples without names, links and other stuff that could let identify the pair. If I am wrong, I hope Diana or other forum administrator would be able to delete my post. Apologies to them in advance. *** [removed examples]

Hi Diana, thanks for your reply. It is along the line I expected. Assign Ave+ for them, Ave- or even 0 for me and my partner. I don't mind. I want director to be aware there is a problem and I do not care about my results on the particular online tournament. I don't want to be punished for more than one current tournament. By the way, well done in the first part of the challenge match against me. :)

I accidently look at bbo archive of one pair regularly playing in ACBL speedballs. What I noticed made me look closely … and more closely… Sorry to say, but I have no doubts I spotted cheating pair. I sent message to BBO abuse, but it supposed to take some time before official decision will be taken. Until when, I guess, cheaters will continue to play. My problem is the following. We are playing in the same tournaments, so we have a non-zero chance to get to the same table. I don’t want to play with cheaters. What would be the punishment for me if I will reject to play, saying to director (in private) the reason for rejection? Or should I take a cheaper road by closing the browser for 15 minutes?

Board 13 is funny. Why declarer GIB was able to get distribution right after top of the nothing lead to unrelated suit, but misguessed after 4th best lead to the same unrelated suit is a mystery.

olegru - gordontd, the second part. Olegru +8 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:2b8fad74.6e3c.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1472511538&u=olegru