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We are more or less succeeding using the include list, although maintaining it between multiple directors is a pain. Our real problem is when people who are in the tournament leave, usually involuntarily. If we could only put in a robot, everything would be grand. We could sub the player back in if they did make it back. I had to put in substitutes from the general list. One substitute got mad when his partner failed to guess he was playing a short club and left after making rude remarks. A robot would not have done that. Any chance of robot subs?

I'm not sure this is a bug but it isn't how I expected the robot to bid. (1S) 2H (2S) 3C -- the robot bids 3C here having 3 little hearts and a KJTxxx club suit; I would have expected 3H. Did the robot consider this bid forcing? Exact hand was: A98 T73 T KJT542

Four of us (one with experience) are just starting to learn Precision. We'd be interested in any practices. We're intermediate-to-advanced. Please add me to any mailing list you're creating. Paul

I'm a long time member. I play at tables quite often. I play some robot tourneys, but because I don't know too many people or often cannot play for a long time, as of yesterday I had played I think only seven tournaments in the last 7 months that involved people. But, I finished all of them. I should be able to play if I want to. This policy is presuming me guilty until proven innocent. I'm a serious player, 325 MP in the ACBL, a qualified director, and I NEVER leave in the middle of a hand or tournament, even a robot one. I've been a mentor in the BIL. However, I am almost NEVER going to be playing 10 tournaments a month to keep up my "qualification". So as of now I get refused on a lot of your tourneys. This is just morally wrong. And, you're losing money. You need to rethink the formula, using more data than just tournaments in a month. For example, I've been a member a long time and my table completion rate is 100%, and I have 20+ BBO points -- surely that is presumptive evidence that I'm not a runner. And if I had the moral character not to run last year, is that not something?

Is there a public specification for .lin files? If so, where can I find it? It should be a modest project to write the equivalent of the viewer in a portable language, e.g. Python, so that non-Windows users can also use the hand records without being in the Flash client. I was going to try it but can't find the specification for the file format. Then again, I'm bad at finding things. (:-<.