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(re categories) So you don't want to identify banned players who are playing (BBO lets them in randomly)other TDs onlinefriends who use particular systemsTDs in your clubPlayers in your clubgood playerscheatersrude playerspolite players You must have really blind tourneys with random folk who sometimes swear at each other or fail to alert properly..

But the flash version is still so much better. You see everything. People have categories and colours. Especially for TDs, you know who you have banned and who is the most polite. The new version is like a baby, valuable, but incapable.

If you are on the main screen, without choose Casual or Competitive. where are you? Can you invite to tourneys? To Relaxed bridge? Either? Both?

As TD, I think kibbing is for the tourney players. I turn on when 1st player finishes.

Robots do play fast tho! Bidding sucks....

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For some they are trying to figure out details about this infection from news reports, social media, and word of mouth. And that is such a range of information, it can be hard to sort out the truth from myth. So I’ve thrown together this email to reflect some of the things I know about COVID-19 which might be of help. First off, COVID-19 is a viral infection caused by SARS-CoV2 virus, which is a highly contagious virus that can be deadly in some people. It appears to be less deadly than Influenza, but more contagious than influenza. COVID-19 is spread mainly by droplets, essentially the same as the common cold. Tiny particles of virus-laden mucus or saliva come from a person’s mouth or nose, and float through the air and land on surfaces. These particles are saliva or snot containing virus, are about 5-10 microns is size, and travel out about a metre from the infected person’s mouth or nose. At this point they sink down and rain onto nearby surfaces. 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So that is how you get COVID-19 – touching virus-laden surfaces (door handles, gas pumps, money, shopping carts, ATM machines, debit card machines, store products someone else has handled, chip bags, counter tops, shaking hands, etc) and then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes inadvertently before you have had a chance to clean your hands. But what about what happens once you get it. So first off, once you have put the virus into your mouth nose or eyes it takes a number of days to get sick, as the virus needs to multiply in the cells of the lining of your airway, mouth, nose, sinuses etc. This usually takes between 2 and 9 days to happen, with an average of about five. During that time you appear to have increasing infectivity to others, initially low, then higher as the virus multiplies in your system and some of the particles are shed from your body. Before I go on, I wanted to explain when people say symptoms of COVID-19, what exactly do they mean. 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However you are contagious for about 3 weeks, but you are CONTAGIOUS FOR THE FIRST 5 DAYS WITHOUT SYMPTOMS 3) Severe Symptoms: The first five days (on average) you have no symptoms with increasing level of infectivity. You then have a 4-day period of increasing severity of those symptoms above. It’s bad with horrible fevers and sweats, feeling of doom, increasing trouble breathing, and then by about day 9 since the original date of infection you end up needing to go into the hospital. Generally you are in the hospital for about two weeks then can go home, but you are contagious for about 25 days total from when you first got infected, but you are CONTAGIOUS FOR THE FIRST 5 DAYS WITHOUT SYMPTOMS. 4) Critical Illness: The first five days (on average) you have no symptoms with increasing level of infectivity. Then over about three days you develop severe shortness of breath and require urgent hospital admission and quickly after hospital you are moved to the ICU and put on life support. You will be on life support 3 weeks to two months and will either come off life support or die during your ICU stay. Importantly, you are CONTAGIOUS FOR THE FIRST 5 DAYS WITHOUT SYMPTOMS. The tough part of all this is the fact that what severity category you are in between 1,2,3,or 4 is very much based on age. The older you are, the greater the chance you are in a severe category. It break out like this: For people age 10-19 who are healthy there is a 0.2 % death rate For people age 20-29 who are healthy there is a 0.2 % death rate For people age 30-39 who are healthy there is a 0.2 % death rate For people age 40-49 who are healthy there is a 0.4 % death rate For people age 50-59 who are healthy there is a 1.3 % death rate For people age 60-69 who are healthy there is a 3.6 % death rate For people age 70-79 who are healthy there is a 8 % death rate For people over 80 who are healthy there is about a 15-22 % death rate But if you aren’t perfectly healthy, it gets worse. For people who have previous heart attack or stroke etc , there is an average of 11 % death rate, which gets worse with age For those people with diabetes there is an average 7.3 % death rate, but it gets worse with age For those lung disease like emphysema or asthma there is an average 6.3 % death rate, worse with age For those with high blood pressure needing treatment there is an average 6 % death rate, worse with age For those who are battling cancer, there is an average 5.6 % death rate, worse with age So people in their mid 70’s and beyond with a few chronic medical problems could easily have a 33 % chance of dying of they got the disease, and would quickly become a severe case where the 29 year old from whom they contracted the disease could have such a mild case they didn’t know they had it. The next things I want to talk about is how much COVID-19 is out there. Well the numbers do not look terrible right now, but a recent study from Stanford University in California suggests there could be much larger group of people who are asymptomatic in the community and therefore not being counted as they don’t know they have it, especially if they are young. The actual number could be quite a bit higher. As well, since everyone is asymptomatic but contagious at the beginning, and up to one third of people (maybe) don’t get symptoms, there could be a ton of virus that you come in contact with if you are out and about without ever seeing a person who is sick. That is why the government want you to stay at home. How many of those people at the grocery store or at the drug store are asymptomatic but contagious. There is no way to know. So far in Ontario today we have 10,010 positive cases with 514 people who have died. Of those 514 who have died, 94% have been over the age of 60. Now many of those have been people whose overall health level is low (eg in a nursing home), however I have already looked after people at death’s door from the virus who were very healthy and active before, the only strike against them is that they were over 70. This is really a virus that preys proportionally on the older members of our population and being a healthy 70 or 80 year old doesn’t necessarily afford you a ton of protection. And yes young people do get this virus, and some do die, but the risk is smaller. So …. Every member of our society needs to follow the government’s advice and protect yourself. But if you are an older member of our society, especially over the age of 60, you need to take extra special precautions. What for a young person might well be a mild illness with low chance of dying, for those over 60 is a real risk of dying. It’s just not worth it. Stay at home, you never know what surfaces in stores, bank machines, etc have virus on them. Try not to expose yourself to younger people when you don’t have to, as they have a greater chance of having COVID-19 and not being aware. Let your younger family members do your shopping, but let them drop off the goods on your step and leave before you pick them up. Don’t expose yourself. What is a small risk of dying for a very young person, is a serious risk for those older members of our society. Be safe. And the older members of our society best be much more strict and careful than what the government recommendations advise.

Y, put on diff server or AWS/Azure? Useful for personal history, detecting cheaters, checking possible partners.

I agree - why not make arrangements with other bridge software makers to allow choosing one of their robots for bidding, configurable for different systems. Would be good publicity for them for purchases for playing offline.

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In V1, any registrant can chat to tourney.

Things I miss in V3 Saving all deals in a tournamentPlayer categories - essential for TDing AND playing.Unable to sort table lists by player names (useful for TDing near tourney end)No VUgraph voiceFD convention cards.Convention card list confusing - why not list each CC & then all the players you use it with & list CC used with each player profile. Still Broken: History shows NS & EW vs We & They for tournaments where players switch directions.Useless Description for Tables. Why was this ever there?I would like (suggestions): In table list: round #; board #; minutes used in round; minutes since last action - sortable - to help TDs manage tourneysIn round box: Pairs/Indy/Team indication; Survivor/Swiss/Clocked/Unclocked indication - mainly for subs.In Deal Archive, show count of deals with the Archive name

No reply from BBO?

http://bridgebase.com/client/currelease7/bbo.php

If you turn off "picture of cards" the dummy is shaded and easy to see. You see a hand diagram. This also makes you less likely to misclick when playing.

"Z:\Users\tOM\Pictures\ShareXmod\2020-04\2020-04-26_04-40-51.png" I've never seen in V2 (flash version) Yep, lots of noises. Yep, shows that That's done in HTML for Hosts at webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tarchive.php?m=h&h=GlobalClub - replace GlobalClub with your Host. No way to see by Director. Also, V2 lets you assign up to 10 named and coloured categories to distinguish players. Their ID gets the colour as background. I use:http://TomTrottier.com/TDcategories.png

FWIW, I find it best to teach using Skype screen-sharing in an audio call.

You can make tourneys as long as 64 boards - It does run faster than a physical tourney.

I suspect that an Unclocked tourney with a sitout would never finish.

You can see the last week by Host via webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tarchive.php?m=h&h=GlobalClub - replace GlobalClub by host name Then you can click on the Results for each tourney. Click on a player's scores and you can see their board results Then you can click on the Travellers of the board. See also http://www.bridgebase.com/tourneyhistory/

If you mean switching the card to point NS from EW & back again, this can happen in all tourneys - Mostly you play sometimes EW, sometimes NS.

It doesn't. You need to replace the sitouts with other players.

You have to just join the table Those are the first few board numbers in the section.

A fine point - after you added the members to the list (I suggest Followeds of Host is most convenient to manage), just modify the tourney a little to use the most current list, eg, add a space to the Description