johnjo42

What happens if, before you leave the table, you change your status to "be right back" using the Accounts tab?

The problem seems to be caused by the chat window remembering the last person you chatted to. In the (in my view) better Windows software the chat default was always to the table and if you wanted to chat to someone else, opponents, club, kibs etc, you had to select that choice. So if you post a request for opponents to the club, the program will continue to chat to the club unless you change it manually.

Since I've been forced to stop using the (much better in my view) Windows platform I have also noticed that the trump suit is on dummy's left instead of the right in violation of Law 41. I'm surprised that given how long ago this was pointed out it hasn't been fixed

What is confusing is that there are now two Acol Clubs. One on the new server under "casual" and the original one on the old server which is only accessible to people like me using the old Windows software (which I very much prefer). So instead of there being over 150 tables in the club there were only 30 or so in the "old" club and over 100 in the "new" club.

We tried this tonight. Because of the problems in setting up team matches after 7.00 p.m. (UK time) we set up a 25 board team match with the aim of the pairs swapping after 12 boards and everyone passing out Board13. Unfortunately we couldn't leave the table as BBO apparently won't let you leave a seat or even log out. When we forced quit and logged back in again we were immediately taken back to the original table. The team director wasn't able to "unreserve" seats. So we ended up playing all 24 boards as we were. Any suggestions or help please?

I am having the same problem. To make matters worse the results aren't there over an hour later. This is happening in casual play, too.

Thank you all. The consensus seems to be that I was right to alert and will continue to do so.

Good point about bids above 3NT not being alertable. I'd overlooked that, thank you

Having played on BBO for many years I always self alert what might be an unusual conventional bid as I make it using the "alert" button. I was recently criticised very strongly by an opponent who said that I was giving away information to the table, including, presumably to my partner. I explained that only opponents could see the alert but she insisted that I should only alert when asked. Is this right? The alert she objected to was in a RKCB sequence where I responded 6C in the sequence 1S - 4S - 4NT - 6C where 6C shows 1 or 3 keycards and a void in clubs.

It is equally bad on my IPad. It is extremely slow, the sound effects are out of synch and it is no longer easy to use. You can't even log out. Please go back to the previous version of the app.

What on earth have you done to the IPad app? Since the last update it has changed completely especially playing with robots anonymously. Until recently I could play anonymously within the app without logging in. Now, tapping play anonymously opens a tab in Safari. It's incredibly slow, the sound effects are out of synch and it seems to consume a lot of power. There also isn't any facility to log out. It is AWFUL. Can we please go back to the old app.

Thank you BBO for listening re landscape.

The moral of this is that Defenders ought not to claim unless they know that they can win the rest of the tricks themselves and are claiming the lot

"New user?" Err, I joined BBO in 2006

I can’t see how you wil ever stop the most blatant cheating such as talking to partner on phone but I do wonder what the point of these people is. What exactly do they hope to gain. (Not talking about money bridge or Robot tourneys).