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Thank you for the reply. Replacing &&'s with and's worked wonders. :D

I wanted to practice 2NT bidding with my partner and used these settings: NS HCP: 27-36 S HCP: 19-22 N HCP: 8-15 S distribution: 2-5 cards in each suit N distribution: 0-11 cards in each suit Dealer: S The first 2 dealt hands were OK but subsequent hands did not meet the specifications. When I switched on 'Use these settings for Dealer' I got Error generating deals messages. Can anyone cast a light on this? TIA Gabor Szots

OK, thanks. I must have misunderstood something.

Yes, I have completed 10 tournaments now, as suggested by you and Aurora at BBO, who was very helpful in explaining me the working of TCR. However, I have learned that my TCR will disappear as soon as I haven't played for 2 months. In that case I will have to play 10 tournaments which I don't intended to play in, just to have a TCR again. The purpose of this escapes me completely. Have I become unreliable because of the break?

Almost always, when I want to register to a tournament, I am denied because of low historic completion rate. I can't understand why because: 1. I have never quitted a tournament. 2. I have completed 9 tournaments recently, so even if I quit the next one, my completion rate will be 90%. I was told by a yellow that I need to complete 10 tournaments. But how can I do that if I am always denied? Unconditional tournaments are very rare. Besides, although I did not play for several years, I did participate at tournaments before that but it seems those do not count, my history must have been cleared. Let me add that in my profile I can see that my board completion rate is 100%. Is that not enough? I hope I will have the required 10 this evening but the way this is dealt with does not feel right. Cheers to all, Gabor Szots

Thank you very much, Diana.

When I start the new client it automatically sets my native Hungarian as its language. However, I would like to use it in English. I used to use the lang=en switch in the command line but it does not seem to work any more or I have forgotten the syntax. Your help would be appreciated.

Yesterday (9th October) I came home after work only to find there was no written commentary in the closed room of the semifinal (3rd segment). This self-assigning method of BBO does not seem to work perfectly. I saw several commentators in the open room, maybe a couple of them could have been spared. Is there not a coordinator taking care of this? Roland Wald used to do a magnificent job arranging commentators. Gábor Szőts

4♣ or 4♦ is not forcing here. I'd bid 4♥ or simply 5♣.

In fact I did just that to a commentator before I wrote this post and, all credit to him, he apologized and promised he'd at least try.

There is one more thing I'd like to ask for. Some commentators often use u for you, r for are, 2 for to, 4 for for, etc. As a non-native English speaker, I have great difficulties reading such sentences. So please, if you possibly can, use the whole word instead of those short forms. BTW, 2 and 4 in the above sense are grammatically improper AFAIK (!) as they have long vowels in them.

Both times I received 2 automated replies of which the 2nd one was: "A ticket has been opened regarding your issue." I may be impatient. The first reply came 12, the second one 6 days ago. Maybe it takes more time to process a request.

Hi all, Recently I have sent 2 e-mails to the above address but got only automated replies. Can anyone tell me if this address is still available to ask for support?

Thanks for the congratulations. ;) However, my partner at winning the cup, although called Csaba (Czímer) is 'csabi' on BBO. BTW, occassionally he is also a vugraph commentator.

My solution is to log in under a secret name when I am unavailable or have no desire for commentating.