BurnKryten

I like to set "permission required" for opponents to sit, but then when I see the profile of the person who has asked, it doesn't show my notes. I have to try to remember which notes I have about whom, and sometimes I guess wrong and click okay to the wrong person. There's nothing worse than clicking yes for a person to sit, and only then see I left myself a note that "This guy was a critical bastard". I suppose I could just mark them as enemies, but I take pretty good notes - I'd like to use them.

Ten years ago or so, I was an expert and played in lots of tourneys. I haven't played live tournaments in ages, but I do play correspondence chess at SchemingMind. I am CuriousShadow there. The memory load for openings gets frustrating at higher levels, so I try to play mostly Chess960. I'm a bit baffled that anyone would suggest opening study for someone learning to play chess - that's perhaps the last thing to worry about B) The simple things are much more important: Develop your men quickly, control the center, that sort of thing.

None of the above.

I was kibbing at a friend's table today, as usual. I got some private messages from two of the players known to me, and used ctrl-R to reply. My messages appeared to go through as usual... not so fast! If the "allow kibitzers to chat to table" box is unchecked, then my messages never get received. However, I am not informed that they didn't go through either. I'd like to get a message telling me that my reply could not be sent. THanks!

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Part of the VPN software we use for work is to disable all outgoing connections from the home PC to anywhere except to the work network - and there you have all the firewall rules, web browser proxy rules just like at work. Our company says they do it for "security reasons". It sucks. Our department has gotten around this by using a Citrix application to gain access to the network securely, without using VPN. I suspect you are stuck with whatever network restrictions you have at work, while connected from home via VPN.

1♣ Strong, Artificial, Forcing 1♦ Strong, Artificial, Forcing 1♥ Strong, Artificial, Forcing 1♠ Strong, Artificial, Forcing 1NT Strong, Artificial, Forcing etc. ;)

There are a lot of sloppy claimers. I tend to reject those claims in a tourney regardless of whether there really is a loser or not. If there's a trump left, or a finesse to be made, or a 3-2 break that needs to happen, it is the claimer's responsibility to make it clear what he is claiming, and what his line is. For example, if declarer hits the claim button with Jxxx trumps still out I'm going to reject that claim. If I reject his claim only when trumps don't break, I'm telling declarer how to play. Given BBO's current claim implementation, rejecting the claim seems to be the sensible thing to do.

I have done precisely this during a tournament where my partnership was doing very badly in a Swiss, and our opps bid up to 7NTX on the final board "just for fun", and attempted to claim zero tricks. I summoned the director, and refused to accept the claim, and explained what was happening to the director. Eventually, the director blacklisted them, adjusted the board to avg +/-, and everyone was happy. Without the option to reject the claim, it would have been difficult to get the director involved when necessary. I believe it is necessary to require opps to accept, even for a concession of all remaining tricks.

Am I really the only person who has this bug? I don't mind resetting my chat font every time I log in, but it would be nice to know how to fix it.

One thought that occurs - some may fear the embarassment of making a mistake among people. Perhaps they are using the bots to practice, and hopefully avoid later mistakes when playing with real people.

My chat font still doesn't stick, on either of my PCs. Anyone else reported this? Of course, now it's version 4.4.2, but same bug.

My chat font doesn't stick. Every time I log in, it has been set to Arial. I go into the options, and find that Times New Roman is checked off. I select Arial, click apply, and then select Times New Roman, and click apply, and that fixes it.

The contract is 6NT, as in the subject line.

I think in this case the defenders should refuse to accept the claim and call the director to have him take care of the situation. I think this is far superior to having the director try to sort it out after the fact.