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John is correct. The game results on BBO will show the original awards, on Live for Clubs the awards get recalculated and the robots are excluded.

This is now in place. Yes, all of the human pairs "underneath" the robot pair gets moved up a spot in the awards.

That's actually a matter of partnership agreement. There are some that like to play that it still shows reverse values and some prefer that it's bidding out shape. The latter form seems to be the most popular amongst advanced+ players these days. Either one works, just make sure that you are on the same page as your partner.

I've been directing in our club for about four years now and Monday was the first time I've ever had to use the EDMOV command in ACBLScore to fix an issue. I was just hoping to get some feedback as to whether I did the correct thing or not. For the record, I wasn't directing, I was just there to play but of course the director was quick to pass over the reins when the real fun began. Believe it or not, this is what happened.... We had 15 1/2 tables so we played a N/S bump. The bumping pair wrote down their assignments but managed to miss a table in their list, so from the 7th round onwards they were bumping the wrong pair. To make matters worse (and add to the craziness) they actually managed to play boards 7 & 8 twice, once in round 7 and once in round 11. What I was able to do was to have the game stop after 12 rounds instead of the 13 that we were going to play. I used EDMOV to change it so that the movement matched what actually took place. The only problem was that because the bumpers played two boards twice it was a non-allowed movement. The EDMOV however did allow me to save it anyways. I then went in and gave the bumpers AVE- for those two boards the second time they played them and gave the pair they played them against an AVE+. Seem reasonable?

No, bad thought. :-) A reverse promises that the first suit is longer than the second - not the other way around. This hand is good enough for a 3♣ rebid by opener and it describes the hand quite well.

There are also several tool bars that can cause this to happen. Try getting rid of any unneeded toolbars - they slow down your browser big time.

Lol - good idea. Maybe I just should have removed it from his bidding box altogether. :-) The main reason I ask is that N/S tried to tell me that East had "bid" and that the same rules as a bid out of turn should have applied. I, obviously, disagreed.

I'm pretty sure I made the correct ruling last night just wanted to be sure.... ACBL club game. North is the dealer but before North makes a call East pulls the stop card out of their bidding box and places it on the table. Before anything further happens, West tells East that it's not their turn to bid. My ruling was that no bid had actually taken place but that West was in possession of UI. I told North to make their call and that the auction would continue on normally from there. I told West that they needed to be very careful not to use the UI that they had due to the stop card being displayed and finally, I told N/S that if they felt that West did use the UI and that it damaged them that they should call me back. All good?

Yes, GIB absolutely recognizes count signals. What you need to realize is that GIB doesn't know "good plays" or "bad plays". What it does is run simulations and plays accordingly. For example you might have AKJ109 opposite 8765 and have evidence that the opponents hands are fairly flat. GIB might finesse the queen and you'd say "Any idiot knows that with a 9 card fit playing for the drop is the percentage play" and you'd be right but what GIB's done is run the simulation multiple times and as chance would have it this time around it's calculated that in more of those simulations the finesse worked better.

I'd assume that GIB was showing count and in the simulations it ran it decided that it could afford to play the jack.

No, that wouldn't be standard. The "standard" for support doubles is that they are off once the auction is above 2 or our suit.

This topic belongs in the N/B forum.

We refer to both as football. When there's a need to differentiate we'd say "CFL football" and "NFL football" even though the Canadian rules are also played at highschools and universities here as are the American rules in the US.

In Canada we also call it football and we call "football" soccer. Is the term soccer used at all in other English speaking countries?

I don't believe that was the head that the OP was refering to.

What's the likelyhood of leading Q from QJx giving a trick to declarer as opposed to leading A from AK(x...)?

For another example of an excellent use of logic please see this video.....

Hi Lizzie, welcome to the forums. Could you maybe give some more details as to whether you're talking about online or F2F tournaments? I'm sure there's lots of good advice that you'll get either way.

I'll take that action and even give you 5 to 1.

Congrats Justin!! I know you figured you'd do it at the Spring NABC but it's cool that you did it with such style!!

I actually lol'd on that one. Is it really the same person? PS I've checked my calendar, it is not April 1st.

In bridge there are two things you always accept from partner; a transfer and an offer of a breath mint.

Over a 1NT opener you can have the best of both worlds. It's quite common these days to play 2♣ as Stayman and 3♣ as Puppet. Whatever you were using the 3♣ response for before probably hasn't come up in three years but hands where Puppet is useful come up on a somewhat frequent basis. Shapes like 33(1)(6) or 33(2)(5) where your singleton or doubleton are weak and you've got 10 or 12 points would probably play better in the major if the NT opener happens to have a 5 carder. Even on hands where you're (4)(3) in the majors I find it useful to check when you've got a weak doubleton in a minor.

I just got back from having pad thai at my favourite Thai place here in town. Yummy!!!

That's a surprising result but my guess is that it isn't a bug. I think the simulations that GIB is running is probably pushing it towards diamonds due to the lack of a double from south somewhat limiting the hearts in his hand a lot of the time.