Maaa

True - I never turn off enemychat, maybe i do not have enuff enemies to do that, and forgot others do... ;) Now I understand why "yellows" should be contacted, but I still strongly hope players at least try to contact hosts of tourneys first. Hopefully 75% doubts dissapear and you get more private life... When you contact a host of whatever - tourney/bbo - dont forget the person may not be able to answer you during the next 3 min, wait a little bit. When you got turned off a tourney which will start during the next lets say 3 min , for whatever reason, I really doubt anyone will be able to let you play, even if the reason was a mistake. Clear up the situation later and enjoy next tourneys :P Greets, Marta

Sometimes it may be also a "bug"... As I do not have a stable IP, my IP changes everytime I log in to the net, I was turned off tournaments from my friends, of which I am 100% sure, they never would blacklist me nor my other nicknames. This looks like the current IP is too close to that of one blacklisted player. I usually log off, log on and a registration is no longer a problem. I would say, next time this message pops up - TALK with the HOST of tourney in question. I dont know if "yellows" have the entry on hosts contact lists - can they see that you are listed as enemy on Maaa´s list? I guess yes - BUT: 1. Is this "a yellows" job? How much time would that take... 2. Shall "a yellow" share these informations with everyone?

Much shorter bcs. not fully edited till today :) no more "wilkosz"-2♦, "we" change to multi... 1♦ allways from 4 cards... 4♣♦ no longer Namyats, natural in 05... Few changes in rebids and defenders bidding, a trend to natural bidding visable and of course the try to eliminate some weak sites of 2000. I am sure, once it is officially out .. we get a translation ... Greets, MJ

Arent some 2/1 pairs opening 1♦ with 4♦5♣ ? Well, I asked once a well respected ACBL TD if I should alert - the answer was, NO,bcs this is a frequent threatment of a big amount of 2/1 pairs, if then I shall alert the eventual 2♣ rebid. I do NOT know what the official rules are (acbl). Shall an Advanced player know the basics of systems in common use? No idea - but an AbaLucy Clubmember MUST know and also this hand, this disagreement comes from an AbaLucy PRIVATE tournament. Greets all :) MJ

The question I see prior is "Adjust or not adjust?", but i do not see the option for 'not adjust' in that poll :) Furthermore I do not understand why missed alert (and we miss it here for sure!) shalll automatically result in an adjustment? Is there a demage which occured? What would an alert change in opponents bidding/play? Correct - in bidding and play of the not offending pair! So, is there a demage ? "4) N/S apealed that 3nt is maded with information given with X, which can not be given if 1D is alerted." I would say if South really sells all NS values with this X, there may be one, but c´mon, i dont think this is the fact on this hand, so the double cant be the only reason why EW fullfill their declared contract. I would also let the score stand but in a real tourney EW would get a procedual penalty, what is inpossible today at BBO. This makes TDrs job much harder - it is now on him to find the golden middle in his ruling, not on the Laws Of Duplicate Bridge :huh: Greetings, M.

As long as West was TWO times in the bidding. West took as actions 2♠ and 3♠, I guess over opponents 3NT and partners PASS even my cat would feel the psyche ;-) I do not understand why someone "misses the final double". Greetings, M.

Yes. On User profiles of course or do you speak about tabledescriptions (main bc ) ?

Thanks for the suggestions ))) ad 1: The translationsheet contains 1504 different words, sentances, verses. It is not as easy as it looks to translate as the relatives are not allways/most often known. I am sure this will be corrected in the offical version. ad 2: We could also type : "Ich denke es ist offensichtilich, daß ich alle restlichen Stiche abgebe" or similar, but during translating we have to maintain a prelimited number of letters, "Ich verliere alles" is simply shorter. ad 3: Would be fine too... (Aber nicht jeder Benutzer ist auch Spieler und vieeeeel zu lang ist das Wort nun auch wieder nicht.) ad 4: It is currently translated to: "Privater Chat. Status setzen - Rechte Maustaste." and not "Privater Chat - Status setzen - Rechte Maustaste" But your suggestion is really very nice, Thanks. ad 5: "... im Hauptbridgeclub.", "... im Club 'The Beginner/Intermediate Lounge" is due to the softwere not makeable, but will work on it. While I was working on the polish translation of BBO same problem occured. I think i have an idea how to solve it in a nice way. This will be : "Maaa spielt am mink´s Tisch. (Hauptbridgeclub)" I´ll need to use () as it is gramatically not makeable when a person is playing f.e. in the Beginners/Intermediates Lounge. ad 6: I think the difference between "Erfahren" and "Forgeschritten" is clear. I do not like your suggestion of "Durchschnittlich".. who wants to be "Durchschnittlich" (ordinary,average)? Maybe Anfänger++ (Beginner++)? ad 7: "Anfänger" and "Neuling" is same as "Beginner" and "Novice". If there is no difference between those , there is also none in english so lets make it german B) ad 8: Will search it... Thanks a lot for those suggestions, hope you find more !! Please let Andreas (ack_hh) or me know. Gruß Marta

Maybe - one day - we get the option to talk with partner privately - during we´r waiting for new rounds ? This would be the perfect place to do so <_< Marta

No, no, only tried to understand what exactly you meant <_< Thanks.

Lucky_dom: Do you mean the general , lets say " 3 min WARNING - please CLAIM asap ;-) " or single TDrs coming to your table and shouting to speed up ? Well if we are talking about the warnings - I´d refuse to stay away from them. I really registered, they speed things up - many players (including me, when playing) sometimes forget to look at the tableclock. So please dont take them personally - they are just a hint for other players and VERY comfortable for the TD. Oh it also makes the scoring more fair - not so many Ave- Adjustments. :unsure: From the TD point of view I registered an enorme raise of unfinished tables @roundchanges, when I forgot to send out the warning. Thx, Marta

Maureen, When someone states/asks players to read CoC pre registering, s/he for sure loaded them , BUT... every change of the server lets them dissapear. You will register that the majority of these mentioned tournaments is added several days earlier to the shedule, so the CoC have lots of time to dissapear, without TDrs knowledge. Hosts not allways online and sometimes maybe simply forget to check if their rules still there. Greets, Marta :unsure:

Maaa: pls play out this board, we will look later if demage accured Player: I will call Director, I do not wish kibitzers who are talking! Soooo.... YES, all for it B) Marta

LOLLL Alex ;) Ta ramka tu tamta ramka tam. Enough vowels ? And..YES, this sentance has a serious meaning. lol

I´d be happy to help in German ( and polish ) ;)