psyck

While we have had live streams of some Bridge tournaments, many of those for Chess tournaments are far more advanced. Instead of just a webcam fixed at one table, they have excellently edited videos with complete coverage of the event, player interviews, expert analysis, post game press conference, etc. so that you can follow the games completely just by looking at the live stream.

Adam seems to have compiled some of these here: Bridge Dictionary

DAB: Directional Asking Bid. Generally a cue to elicit an NT bid by pd. DEPO: Double Even, Pass Odd. Response to RKCB after intervention beyond 5 of agreed suit. DHCP: Total High Card Points (with Distribution) DSIP: Do Something Intelligent Partner EKC: Exclusion Key Card Blackwood FR: Fit Raise GT: Game Try (bid Game & Try to make it, don’t invite) HSGT: Help Suit Game Try NV: Non Vulnerable (does not equal invulnerable) P: Pass P/C: Pass/Correct QNT: Quantitative SA TXF: South African Texas Transfer SSGT: Short Suit Game Try ST: Slam Try (bid Slam & Try to make it, don’t invite) T/O: Takeout Vul: Vulnerable X: Double XX: Redouble XXX: <the rest of this thread has been censored...>

Post Mortem (n.) An epic battlefield where irresistible forces meet immovable objects.

Advance Sacrifice (n.) Making the 1st mistake.

Temporizing Bid (n.) Waiting for partner to make the 1st mistake.

Thinking (v.) 1. A futile attempt to convince others of ones capabilities to manipulate the grey cells profitably. 2. An oxymoron – kings are never thin.

Thin (n.) A contract which has as much chances as you have of becoming so…

Transfer Advance Approach (n.) How the hog approaches the rabbit - a system you recommend to your expert BBO partner while you play a natural game.

Menace (n.) A card combination that makes you feel like a bully until you discover that the opponents have a tenace over your menace.

Sacrifice (n. & v.) What you would like to offer up your lamb of a partner as, when he attempts to emulate a super ‘hero’ (see Phantom).

Phantom (n.) A super villain in sheep’s underclothing.

LOTT (abbr.) A misnomer (calling a theory as a law) designed to multiply the total number of books sold – Law instead Of Theory Triples sales.

Useful Space Principle (n.) Taking 35 bids in an uncontested auction to reach a cold 7NT.

False Carding (v.) 1. What you keep attempting in vain hoping for opponents to notice & act on, but only one of them does (see CHO). 2. Your escape route in the post mortem for torturing partner into finding a misdefense.

CHO (abbr.) Center Hand Opponent (the person in-between LHO & RHO).

I have the latest flash player, so that is not the issue; as you say - it is likely to be specific to Google's plug in, so I guess there is nothing much to be done from your end. In any case, it is a minor issue, with workarounds available, so not worth worrying about. Thanks, Krishna

If you can give me some more information I would appreciate it. For example: 1) How do you know it is crashing? What do you see? 2) Does it always happen or only when you try to see the profile of certain users? 3) Do the other commands on the right-click menu work? 4) What operating system are you using? 5) Can you try it with some other browser and let me know if the problem exists there are well? 6) Any other details you can think of that might be relevant? Thanks, Fred Gitelman Bridge Base Inc. www.bridgebase.com Hello Fred, 1) I get a pop up message: "Google Chrome has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." The flash plug in then needs to be closed. 2) It happens whenever I right click on ANY players name in the chat window. It used to happen when I clicked on friends names in main window also earlier, but when I tested it again now, it worked there, but only crashed for names in chat window. 3) Other right click commands in main window (table area) work. 4) Windows XP Home. 5) I think it used to work in Mozilla Firefox, but I uninstalled Firefox when I switched to Chrome. It worked fine on IE when I tested now. Looks to be a Chrome specific issue from the above. I have only used the Flash version for kibitzing vu gr until now, I will try using it more, to play also, to see if I can find any other Chrome specific issues. 6) In Chrome, when I right click on a friends name in the main window, and then right click on a name in the chat window, it seems to work - but only once, if I right click again on the name in the chat window, it crashes. If I right click on a name in chat window without right clicking on a name in main window, it always crashes immediately. Regards, Krishna

BBOFlash crashes when I right click on a players name and select some option (say the "Show profile" option). I use Google Chrome 1.0.154.43.

When will we see spell check in Chat Assistant? :)

BBOTV would be great if you can watch it on your mobile. When will it support Flash Lite Version: 2.0 for this? Cheers, CK