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Hi all, I have recently moved to Wroclaw and am looking for a bridge club. I don't speak Polish (yet) and so am struggling to find information online, could anyone help me out with details of a club? Thanks, Jonathan

You hold: [hv=s=sahkjxxdakxxxcaxx]133|100|[/hv] Auction goes 1♦ - 1♠ - 2♥ - 4♠ Do you make a try for slam and if so what?

3♠ is opened on your right and you hold: [hv=s=sxhakxdqjxxxxcaqx]133|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv] what are you doing? If you double it goes: pass - 4♥ - pass - pass - 4♠ - pass - pass, what do you do now? If you bid 4♦ it goes: 4♠ - pass - pass, what do you do now?

I am not a qualified TD but tonight I was covering because the TD was away. There were several qualified TDs playing in the event and so I had been instructed to take down the details and get one of the TDs to give a ruling once they had played the board. On board 2 of the evening I got called to a table and was told the following: North had failed to put back his cards from board 1 and was still holding his cards from board 1 during the bidding of board 2. He passed throughout and was then on lead. He led the Q♣ and his partner said "Something's wrong, I have that card too". At this point the mistake was realised and the director was called. In the end the mistake had little effect as North would have passed through out anyway, E-W would have reached the same contract and the UI that his partner has Q♣ is not particularly relevant. The contract made and the result stood. Not a particularly interesting ruling but an interesting and presumably fairly unusual situation!

What does RONF stand for?

Weak no trump (12-14)

This is hand from a recent club night. You are playing ACOL (4 card majors and non game forcing 2/1) with a pick up partner. Partner opens 1♠ and you hold: [hv=d=n&v=e&s=sj95hqjt876dkjc73]133|100|Scoring: MP[/hv] What is your bid?

Thanks to all who have provided suggestions / explanations! Quite a few interesting things to consider. Jonathan

This is a hand from a teams match I played in last night. You hold: [hv=d=n&v=b&s=saqxxhxxdaqxcktxx]133|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv] Partner opens and the auction proceeds as follows: 1♥ - 1♠ - 2♣ - 2♦! - 2♠ - 3♣ - 4♣ - at this point I believe partner is either a 3514 or 3505 shape so ♦s are covered but I was still worried about possible losers in ♥s, ♠s and ♣s. After some thought I bid 4♦ as kickback as if I started cuing I would never be able to determine partner's ♣ holding. Partner responded that he had 2 keycards without the queen. I then reasoned that we most likely had a ♣ loser and still quite possibly a ♥ or ♠ loser and so signed off in 5♣. 6♣ makes quite easily and I would like some advice on how I could have better bid or better thought about the hand in order to get to the slam. Thanks in advance. Jonathan

Hi Fred, Thank you for pointing this out. Problem solved. Jonathan

Hi, BBO has been working fine for the last few months but with the latest release I am back to having the problems previously described. I have IE 5 installed and have adjusted the file as suggested but neither has fixed the problem. At the moment I am still able to use 4.5.2 but I expect at some point soon this will no longer be the case so any suggestions as to how I might be able to fix the problem would be much appreciated. Many thanks, Jonathan Lillycrop

Thank you both for your help. I have now installed a later version of Internet Explorer and as predicted all is now working. Much appreciated. Jonathan

Hi, I have just been trying to setup BBO on an old Win 95 laptop and have encountered the same problem. Did you ever find a solution? Is there anywhere that I can get an older version of BBO from to try? I will email support and post back here if I have any joy. Jonathan P.S. I have tried the latest beta release but it has the same problem. P.P.S. After quite a bit of effort I managed to locate and install an old version of BBO (3.8.4) just to find that I am not allowed to login because the software is out of date!

Double for peanlties?