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Today I played at pairs tournament (clocked). Last round opps were declarers both boards, difficult boards and the time finished just were 3 cards left . The contract was 6Hxx-3. TD was at the table. He saw our time wouldn't be enough to finish, but did not add time (as I asked). Asked for adjustment after (the TD was adjusting all previous rounds), but he said he'll not do that cause the tour is already finished. So instead of having some (good :angry: ) score, we had Ave- :) Pls write your opinion about that.

Think GIB plays not worse than an average BBO player. Sure there are sometimes things in GIBs play that I don't like (may be that depends a lot by the GIBs speed). But that is the good at the bridge- the human can still win over the robots in bridge.

May be the example with the chess was not good. Of course that bridge and chess are different games. But some people just use to think more than other (so they take the time of their opps). And sometimes (rarely :) ) there are conflicts who had played slow. It's not easy for the TDs to decide who was playing slower. Now if the time finishes both pairs take Ave--. If the time is divided at least the pair that has no fault will take Ave+ or Ave=.

Suggest when there is a clock event the time for a board to be divided 50:50% between the two pairs (like in the chess). So for example if there are 8 min/board both pairs will have 4 min/board for their play. May be it will spoil some hands when some player has bad connection, but think both pairs must have the same time.