bobecky

Thanks, Uday. You really DO care.

This was NOT a free tournament; this was an ACBL tournament, and the opponents won masterpoints as a result of this claim. The directors are supposed to be ACBL certified and have at least a minimal amount of bridge knowledge. The director told me that she had no way to adjust the score. I cannot believe that the BBO prgram does not allow adjustments since the Laws of Duplicate Bridge specify that when a claim is made play ceases, and the director assigns the result. (The Rubber Bridge Laws do allow the play to continue, but the Duplicate Laws do not.)

[hv=d=e&v=n&n=sa1075hj85dcakq853&w=sq9hq2dq9643cj1042&e=s84h10763daj10752c6&s=skj632hak94dk8c97]399|300|Scoring: XIMP[/hv] I am sure no one at BBO cares about this situation; the director clearly doesn't care. The director is supposed to attempt to restore equity on a hand where an infraction has occurred. On Board #2 of the 10:15 pairs on Sunday, our opponents bid 7NT by South on the following hand: NORTH A1075 j85 --- AKQ853 SOUTH KJ632 AK94 K8 97 After a diamond lead to the Ace and a diamond return, declarer claimed with no explanation of how he would play the hand. I immediately called the director. My partner rejected the claim. Declarer now led the club 9 and finessed (my partner held J1042). I did not play in fourth seat, but protested to the director that 1) declarer was not allowed to take a finesse unless it had been proven by earlier play and 2) declarer would be -300 if he took all winners with no finesses or he would be -600 if he took an early finesse that lost (e.g., a losing spade finesse). In any event, we were entitled to +100 that we earned at trick one. Director awarded us 3.0 IMPs (Avg. +). Our +100 at trick one was worth at least 15 IMPs. These opponents only lost 3 IMPs on a board where they should have lost at least 16 IMPs -- probably more. The winning strategy on BBO is apparently to make a bogus claim when a poor result is imminent and receive an Average Minus.