h2osmom

ok, fair enough, but someone with palsy dropping a card face down has no penalty. If the dropped card doesn't get exposed to partner it can be picked up and play resume with no penalty. If a slight stutterer corrects himself, it should be the same; the card intended should be allowed to be played.

What if declarer has a mild problem with stuttering? Not allowing him/her to change a designation in the same breath seems more than draconian to me.

Happy birthday Justin! Hope your day and year are all you wish for.

No, I never suggested a limited blue ribbon event. I don't even agree with having one. Thank you, was fun regional for me.

I have an idea for fall nationals, and I have written to ACBL about it, but I didn't get any response. I am wondering if anyone has similar thoughts to me. Fall nationals are BAM nationals. There are open BAM, women's BAM, and the Reisinger BAM. The limited events, like the 0-1500 Spingold are pretty popular, and I think there should be a 0-1500/0-5000 BAM event at fall nationals. I also think that 0-5000 Blue Ribbon pairs is an event that shouldn't exist. Red Ribbon pairs already is a limited qualifying ribbon event. I think the problem is in scheduling a limited BAM event. Women's BAM is concurrent with Open BAM, and National Swiss is concurrent with Reisinger. I think the women's BAM could be eliminated. 0-1500 and 0-5000 BAM events would be far more well attended, and developing players usually don't have a lot of BAM experience. It would be really nice to have a limited BAM running concurrently to the Open BAM. Please post if you have thoughts about this, and also how to better present this to the ACBL if you agree that it would be a positive change. Thank you.

Why is no one bidding 3c here non forcing?

Did it show clubs? If so, it probably would have been better to not alert or call it anything unless Opener must make a specified set of rebids to show min or max. Or maybe we should alert our passed hand 2C response to 1M as "natural and forcing for one round, with no artificial follow-up structure". It certainly is highly unusual and unexpected, since the vast majority use some form of the "D" word. no, it had nothing to do with clubs, it was just limit raise values and they would continue bidding to find the right strain.

In the New Orleans nationals, flight B GNT, there was a pair who played no fit drury. It showed limit raise values and said nothing about a fit in opener's suit at all. They both referred to it as drury, and seemed not to know that most people play that drury does indicate a fit.

OK, since I posted that question I got my renewal for ACBL, which asked for a donation for USBF, supports US players in international competition, so maybe that's all USBF does? If so, why isn't it part of ACBL rather than a totally separate body? Also, I noticed there have been 50 views since I posted original question and no responses. Usually this is a vocal group, maybe no one knows?

Probably I should already know this, but I don't. USBF is in charge of teams for international competition. What else do they do, and how are they related to ACBL, if at all?

I think no alert. Many who play inverted minors play 2 level bids as stoppers, and I haven't heard them alerted. Maybe I am wrong though.

My question is about the GNT's. I know of more than one instance where a player had no intention of attending nationals, was arguably the best player on the team they played on for trials, and that team did, in fact, win the trials. It's likely that without that player a different team would have won. So the district is sending a worse team to represent them when that player The rules do allow for substitutions within certain parameters, as long as there are at least 3 original players. My question is, is this ethical even though it is legal? Just to be clear, I was not affected by any of these instances. I just wonder what the general concensus will be. Thank you.

I don't think 15 minutes for each play would help, but actually taking the time I have would make a difference. I often play too fast and then realize I have erred. So taking a few seconds more could make a difference for me. I wouldn't have the patience to write down every card, it would change the game enough for me as to make it no longer enjoyable. Doing it as an exercise though, could help with developing better play and defense. I do notice that the top players play far slower than I do, or than is even allowed in regional events, so using the time one needs obviously helps with better play.

A lot of top players play on BBO and are nice enough to allow kibs. Most people appreciate and enjoy these matches. An example in addition to the cayne matches, is the dearbilly matches. Initially kib chat was free and allowed. And Billy often offered to play 5 hands with some kibs at the end of the matches. Then kibs started abusive chat, and now, while kibs are allowed to watch, there is no kib chat allowed in those matches, and Billy doesn't play with kibs. It would have been far preferrable if particular kibs could have been disallowed, either permanently, or maybe particular kibs even just gagged. In the cayne matches there is constant chatter and banter as well as intelligent discussion and relevant questions asked/answered. There are a few people who are abusive, either to the players, or some benign kibs. Larry has had to stop kibitzing during at least one match because of that. Again it would be preferrable if host could take action against particular kibs. Would that be a lot of work in the software? I seem to recall that MSN gaming zone had something like that available; the ability to boot a particular kib. Thank you for your attention.

that's right, I remembered that for 3M bids, no idea why I didn't consider it for 3d.