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Recently, when using Chrome (on my PC), the BBO web app blacks out the right-hand frame (where there are lists of people, results, or a few other choices). Not a problem on Edge. Is this a bug or a problem with my particular setup?

For some reason, my login, password, and preferences are not being retained in the current version of the app. Anybody else with this problem? Is there a fix?

Hi. I am trying to compile a list of counter-defenses to the myriad of defenses to 1NT openings, generally strong (15-17 and the like). If you have any good understandings please descxribe them. Many thanks. Robb Gordon

I have noticed that GIB is fond of transferring to bad 4 card majors over 1NT. This is not a productive feature and I wish it would be removed. The support person I corresponded with did not see it as a problem. Robb Gordon

I would like to bring to everybody's attention the following item from the ACBL BOD minutes from the Nashville (Summer 2007) meeting: tem 072-141: WBF Relationship ACBL will sever its relationship with the WBF. Estimated cost/savings: Potential savings of many dollars. Motion failed. Aye: 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 21. Abstain: 4, 5, 11, 22, 23. There is a minority of members of the ACBL board who think that our participation in world bridge is a waste of money and support should be withdrawn (presumably to fund more bracketed knockouts and club appreciation pairs). Actions like this give them more fodder for their views. I may be sympathetic to, and even share the view these women expressed. But I would be proud to be representing my country on that podium. Representing my country means representing people who disagree with that view as well. The WBF has gone through times when certain teams were banned by their governments from playing certain other teams. They have done their very best to remove politics from everybody's agenda for these events and I heartily approve of that. I can't believe that after a campaign to make bridge an Olympic sport and to do other things to get the game worldwide general recognition that our ambassadors would shoot the game in the foot like this, but apparently their agenda trumped that of those of us who believe in a healthy world competition absent political overtones. I hope that these women are not disciplined, but rather, come to their senses and apologize - not for their opinions, but for their abysmal judgment. Robb Gordon