babalu1997

Pam, in your first post you identified absenteism as a problem and even listed the practice of allowing spur of the moment teams and subs as a contributing factor. You asked for suggestions, you got them. My team did the right thing and informed bboiac in advance that we would not be available these past weeks we believe as a team in partnership bridge and that is what we practice what we preach. We hoped it would relieve you of your burden. In reality,the people who agree or are trying to form teams should meet, and play a social game at those empty tables at the club and actually show some commitment. They will not do so if there exists a godmother who will find then subs from the lobby My last post on this issue is to inform you that there exists a game where people can meet multiple new partners-- it is called an INDY, run one.

Well, Dee-Dee, All members were invited to state their opinion. I stated mine. Many disagree with mine and it is their prerrogative. I am surprised that you took upon yourself to suggest who should be or should not be a member of the bboiac club and I ask you to withdraw your statement. To suggest that one may elect not to participate in a team match where random partners are encouraged would be one thing. I checked the club description at BBO and there is no stipulation that members must play team matches or be excluded as members.

Hit the nail on the head rq. This past sunday one of our team mates was unavailable, so we did not sign up as a team. In team matches, your team mates affect the result, so I do not see why any team would even want subs. In fact some players have joined the team matches and do not even know what conventions their partner plays. I do not think team matches are the place for "First dates" in Bridge. The club tables or tournaments, maybe.

did they change the jacoby 2nt convention? i always thought that jacoby 2nt denies splinters in responder's handsm and is actually a cheap way for opener to show his splinters (at 3 level) facilitating the bidding of slam with the aid of distributional points.

There is one aspect that is being overlooked. It is that team matches, just like tournaments can have co-directors. The captain of a team maybe designated codirector with Pam. What the members of our team did last week was to setup a table and wait with the designated partners. Once the mebers of the second team arrive the deisgnated codirector may announce to the club and set the team match Whi know, maybe they can even match at a later time of theur convenience if the captains of both teams agree. To review: Two teams will be matched ahead of time The captains of both teams will agree to meet at a certain time during a period of seven days and report to the team match coordinator they will report result to a a * team match coordinator* they call the team match bboiac team match

I have searched long and hard for the discussion re: the bboiac sunday team matches, where are you folks hiding?

Thanks Fred I used bbo flash to attend a lesson and it was neat to copy and paster the chat log directly on to to my word processor, do some instant purging, and not to have to bother with retrieving the chat log. Also, during the course of this lesson I was not booted once, a common occurence for me due to mysterious things which i have never been able to explain. In fact, while i have used similar browser applications which used java, I was never successful in staying logged on- so this flash thing works !!!!

I HAVE USED BBO FLASH VERSION SUCCESSFULLY WITH THE FIREFOX BROWSER AND I LIKE WHAT I SEE. I HAVE 2 QUESTIONS: A) IS IT POSSIBLE YET TO ACESS THOSE BRIDGE MASTER DEALS FROM THERE, AS WE DO IN THE OLD VERSION? B) WHNE I SEE THE TABLES IN THE MIAN CLUB I CANNOT TELL WHAT THE SCORING TYPE IS. IN THE WINDOWS VERSION I CAN RESTRICT THE TABLE VIEW TO TYPES OF SCORING I PLAY? IN PARTICULAR I AM LOOKING FOR MATCH POINTS THANKS

Your points are correct, however, one will observe that many oplayers play imps tactics in a matchpoints game. And as for default settings- that does not have much to do with it. It is very common for our opposition to : a- request to change scoring to imps b- offer to open another table and even reserve seats for us c- point oit that "therre is something wrong " - then state that it was the scoring lol all a day in the life of the matchpoints lovers

Perhaps if people played matchpoints they would not overbid as much? Sometimes I wonder why so many games on the internet are imps scoring. Those like me who prefer matchpoints have a hard time finding games, tables, and when we open our own matchpoints table, it is hard to get opposition. try looking at the main room and count the number of matchpoints table-- you will see perhaps 20 out of 1,000.

i would like to be able to open a practice table to play with gib which allows undos and redeals. the teaching table force me to see all hands i would like to play against the gib and be able to undo without seeing the hands to improve declaere play is that possible? thanks

Is there a place with the syntax for this? Please. I want to created one for the ks syste, but i find creating directçy on the editor too time consuming, would like to create in text form Thanks

how do i delete outdated convention cards which i no longer use? thanks

There are a anumber of players who leave game immediately after a bad result. Sometimes so many one is challenged to record all names for the exclusion list. Not to mention that some may have been disconnected for valid technical reasons, such as power outage or computer failure. Is there a way to tell what happened to the disconnected player. Often, those who are playing the game suffer because of delays in getting subs, or because the have limited time to play the game and must leave before completion.

Some people ban kibitzers because they come to communicate with their friends over chat programs. The WC player who comes to goof around with friends could make the tb invisible. Babalu

Hello I would like it for it to be easier for me to buy products at the BBO. (From the Website) I have trouble adding money to my BBO Account because the handler requires a zip code which is not available in the country where I live. I would like to see more books available online. And I would like alos a different type of BOT, one where we could redeal and undo, without duplicate scoring.