European Championships

[DenisO]

Unrelated to browser, it just depends on the .LIN -> NetBridgeVu.exe association.

 

Reinstalling BBO takes care of it, can also be fixed by hand if you know how (in Mozilla/Firefox family, Tools -> Options -> Downloads).

I've got the correct association for the .LIN extension set up in Windows Explorer

 

As you suggested, I've done a complete reinstall of BBO (after removing via Control Panel) and that's made no difference.

 

So I'd like to try the other route. I'm using Firefox (v1.5.0.6) - but not as my default browser and when I get to Downloads the window tells me"Firefox can automatically download or open files of certain types". I then click on the button for "view and edit actions" and I've got a list of file extensions, with their file types and the appropriate action. But the .LIN extension isn't there and I can't find a way to add it.

 

Note that I only have the problem with Nikos's site - I can open the links to .lin files as bridge movies in the BBO Vugraph archive.

 

Help greatly appreciated <_<

[Walddk]

New fixtures for us:

 

Tuesday, August 15:

4:30 am New York, 10.30 Paris, 9:30 am London, 6:30 pm Sydney

RR6

Wales v Italy

San Marino v Poland

France v Portugal

Denmark v England

 

 

8:15 am New York, 14.15 Paris, 1:15 pm London, 10:15 pm Sydney

RR7

Poland v Romania

France v Russia

Italy v Denmark

Spain v Norway

 

 

11:35 am New York, 17.35 Paris, 4:35 pm London

RR8

Sweden v Italy

Norway v France

Latvia v Poland

England v Portugal

[Erkson]

So I'd like to try the other route. I'm using Firefox (v1.5.0.6) - but not as my default browser and when I get to Downloads the window tells me"Firefox can automatically download or open files of certain types". I then click on the button for "view and edit actions" and I've got a list of file extensions, with their file types and the appropriate action. But the .LIN extension isn't there and I can't find a way to add it.

 

Note that I only have the problem with Nikos's site - I can open the links to .lin files as bridge movies in the BBO Vugraph archive.

 

Help greatly appreciated :lol:

Hi, Denis.

 

I would like to understand better what is your problem.

 

When you click on that link for instance :

http://www.sarantakos.com/bridge/vugraph/2006/etc/r1a.lin

a windows should pop up asking you if you want to OPEN or COPY TO A DISK.

If you click on OPEN you should be able to view the lin file in NetBridgeVu.exe

 

I understand that for you things don't happen as expected, but I don't understand what happen.

[DenisO]

I would like to understand better what is your problem.

 

When you click on that link for instance :

http://www.sarantakos.com/bridge/vugraph/2006/etc/r1a.lin

a windows should pop up asking you if you want to OPEN or COPY TO A DISK.

If you click on OPEN you should be able to view the lin file in NetBridgeVu.exe

 

I understand that for you things don't happen as expected, but I don't understand what happen.

Hi Erkson

 

When I click on that link with IE6, a small Download window opens with the option buttons for Open, Save and Cancel. There is also a tick box (which I have ticked) which says "always ask before opening this type of file". If I use the Open option the link opens as a bridge movie - as expected because I have that association set up in Windows Explorer.

 

However with Firefox, when I click on the link, I don't get a download window with any options. the link immediately opens as a text file. I have found this happening on Nikos's site and also on Yvan Calame's site (http://www.bridgefederation.ch/2006/etc/index.php) yet when I click on links in the BBO archive (http://bridgebase04.bridgebase.com:81/vug/?C=M;O=D) they open immediately as bridge movies. It doesn't matter whether I left click to open immediately or right click to get a small menu with an Open option - the link still opens as a text file.

 

Very odd :lol:

[Erkson]

It doesn't matter whether I left click to open immediately or right click to get a small menu with an Open option - the link still opens as a text file.

 

Very odd :lol:

Very odd, indeed, but not never-heard.

 

See :

http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/po...iation_problem/

 

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/mandriva-...ns-firefox.html

 

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t103...-winxp-wtf.html

 

http://www.testingeducation.org/k04/examples/func07g.html

 

I asked Google for "Firefox file association problem".

 

Good luck and best regards.

Erkson

[mink]

http://www.sarantakos.com/bridge/vugraph/2006/etc/r1a.lin

Hi Erkson

 

When I click on that link with IE6, a small Download window opens with the option buttons for Open, Save and Cancel. There is also a tick box (which I have ticked) which says "always ask before opening this type of file". If I use the Open option the link opens as a bridge movie - as expected because I have that association set up in Windows Explorer.

 

However with Firefox, when I click on the link, I don't get a download window with any options. the link immediately opens as a text file. I have found this happening on Nikos's site and also on Yvan Calame's site (http://www.bridgefederation.ch/2006/etc/index.php) yet when I click on links in the BBO archive (http://bridgebase04.bridgebase.com:81/vug/?C=M;O=D) they open immediately as bridge movies. It doesn't matter whether I left click to open immediately or right click to get a small menu with an Open option - the link still opens as a text file.

 

Very odd :)

I think the difference between the forum links and the myhands links is that forum links force a new window. My firefox behaves exactly like yours. Somebody should talk to the firefox people because this is not the way I think this should be handled, and this is probably true for documents other than .lin, too.

 

In the meantime, as a workaround, maybe everybody who creates new links to .lin files on own web pages should use links without the "open in new window" attribute, as this attribute make no sense for .lin files anyway.

 

Karl

[Walddk]

New fixtures for us. Only 2 rounds in Warsaw tomorrow:

 

Wednesday, August 16:

4:30 am New York, 10.30 Paris, 9:30 am London, 6:30 pm Sydney

RR9

Bulgaria v Italy

Poland v Serbia

France v Scotland

Spain v Netherlands

 

 

8:15 am New York, 14.15 Paris, 1:15 pm London, 10:15 pm Sydney

RR10

Wales v Poland

Netherlands v France

Italy v Ireland

England v Turkey

[DenisO]

I think BBO have reached new heights of excellence with these Championships. Rock steady Internet connections, 8- table coverage, excellent commentaries, a great results service on the Polish web site and superb coordination from Roland.

I do hope this is a sign of things to come from major championships, although I recognise what a huge amount of effort has gone into the planning and organisation by the host nation Poland. Well done BBO and the Poles!

 

Denis

[DenisO]

OOPs - how could I have forgotten the superb team of operators :)- after a good internet connection they are the important people!.

[Walddk]

I think BBO have reached new heights of excellence with these Championships. Rock steady Internet connections, 8- table coverage, excellent commentaries, a great results service on the Polish web site and superb coordination from Roland.

I do hope this is a sign of things to come from major championships, although I recognise what a huge amount of effort has gone into the planning and organisation by the host nation Poland. Well done BBO and the Poles!

 

Denis

Organisers of major championships all over the world should be forced to go to the vugraph theatre and see how it can and should be done. The "problem" we may face after Poland is that it can hardly be better, but it can easily be worse.

 

Then we will all be disappointed because we remember how the Poles did it. It's not easy for White Plains and Shanghai to come immediately after (even during) the European Championships.

 

All we can do is wish them good luck. I know for a fact that Jan Martel has put a lot of effort into making the USBC a huge success. However, my fear is that she has taken on too much herself. She will also be operating.

 

I sincerely hope that I am proven wrong.

 

Roland

[Walddk]

As an example of how much our spectators appreciate the service the Polish organisers are offering, I would like to quote a short article in Wednesday's bulletin:

 

Congratulations

We receive many communication by email during the

Championships. Here is one we would like to share with you.

It was sent by Romania's Sergiu Ghizelea.

 

I congratulate The Polish Bridge Union for organising

the EBL Championships, for BBO-Vugraph transmissions

(really first class quality) but there is a 'Nec Plus

Ultra' that I want to underline:

 

The software by Jan Romanski for evaluating and presentation

of results is AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING!

That is what I always want and I did not hope to find

it! I can myself analyse any board for every team, even for

every player!

 

It's as if I can watch the play of all the teams

at the same time! I'm really delighted to be able to do

that! Hearty congratulations to the author and thank you

very, very much to the people that have enabled the introduction

of this immense quantity of data!

[the saint]

It is just amazing and all involved are to be congratulated. As people have mentioned, this is now the standard by which others will be judged.

 

A few ideas on how the 'complete' experience may be possible. I think it was while watching a European Poker Tour event on TV that the commentary mentioned some of the technology that was coming into play. One thing that was mentioned was playing cards with chips in them to distinguish them from each other. The table then had sensors which could pick the cards up so players wouldn't have to show them to the tiny cameras that are now mounted on the tables. If such a thing were applied to bridge, then card play could be completely tracked and we wouldn't be left with incomplete play records and we might get a real-time feel for the players tempo. This might cut down the operator's workload or if a similar principle where able to be applied to the bidding mechanism, remove it altogether. It might also prove invaluable to directors and allow proper timing of teams speed of play when calculating slow play.

 

I am in no way decrying the performance of the operators who are fantastic and deserve all the credit they get for performing such an involved task with the level of precision they do, I am just floating ideas on where the next generation of vugraph may go.

 

It is also inevitable that cameras will be mounted on each table allowing TV/webcasting. No doubt this will be supplemented by live audio commentary from experts all over the globe. Exciting prospect isn't it!!

 

In the meantime, I would just like to re-iterate how fantastic this show is and I hope to be available to commentate on a fw more matches!!

 

Alan

 

P.S. I'm having to time my visits to the internet machine at work very carefully so my boss doesn't see me on www.polbridge.pl all time time desperately catching up with the latest news!! If I still have a job at the end of these two weeks it will be a miracle!!

[Gerardo]

Firefox issue thread opened at Firefox and LIN files.

[uday]

From psbridge on BBO

 

PDF versions of the matches

 

http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/%7Epsbridge/psrecords/index.html

[Walddk]

New fixtures. From RR12 (women and seniors starting) we will be adding a 5th match in every round.

 

Thursday, August 17:

4:30 am New York, 10.30 Paris, 9:30 am London, 6:30 pm Sydney

RR11

Turkey v Italy

Poland v Denmark

France v Iceland

Israel v Norway

 

 

8:15 am New York, 14.15 Paris, 1:15 pm London, 10:15 pm Sydney

RR12

Sweden v Poland

Spain v France

Italy v Portugal

Norway v Croatia

England v France (seniors)

 

 

11:35 am New York, 17.35 Paris, 4:35 pm London

RR13

England v Norway

Poland v Bulgaria

Italy v Russia

Luxembourg v France

Russia v France (women)

[Walddk]

New fixtures here:

 

Friday, August 18:

4:30 am New York, 10.30 Paris, 9:30 am London, 6:30 pm Sydney

RR14

Germany v Turkey

France v Switzerland

Ireland v Poland

Norway v Italy

France v Italy (women)

 

 

8:15 am New York, 14.15 Paris, 1:15 pm London, 10:15 pm Sydney

RR15

Sweden v Hungary

Greece v France

Italy v Scotland

Poland v Turkey

France v Poland (seniors)

 

 

11:35 am New York, 17.35 Paris, 4:35 pm London

RR16

Netherlands v Italy

France v Israel

Portugal v Poland

Hungary v Bulgaria

France v Croatia (women)

[Walddk]

New fixtures here:

 

Saturday, August 19:

4:30 am New York, 10.30 Paris, 9:30 am London, 6:30 pm Sydney

RR17

Ireland v Hungary

Italy v Iceland

Poland v Russia

Croatia v France

France v Israel (seniors)

 

 

8:15 am New York, 14.15 Paris, 1:15 pm London, 10:15 pm Sydney

RR18

Norway v Poland

Spain v Italy

France v England

Hungary v Turkey

France v Finland (women)

 

 

11:35 am New York, 17.35 Paris, 4:35 pm London

RR19

Italy v France

Poland v Scotland

Germany v Netherlands

Norway v Belgium

Ireland v France (seniors)

[Walddk]

New fixtures here:

 

Sunday, August 20:

4:30 am New York, 10.30 Paris, 9:30 am London, 6:30 pm Sydney

RR20

Netherlands - Poland

Switzerland - Italy

France - Finland

Iceland - Germany

France - Austria (women)

 

 

8:15 am New York, 14.15 Paris, 1:15 pm London, 10:15 pm Sydney

RR21

Hungary - Norway

Italy - Greece

Lithuania - France

Poland - Iceland

Wales - France (seniors)

 

 

11:35 am New York, 17.35 Paris, 4:35 pm London

RR22

Israel - Italy

Spain - Poland

France - Germany

Belarus - Netherlands

France - Germany (women)

 

.....

 

Monday is a day off in Warsaw.

 

Roland

[Walddk]

New fixtures here:

 

Tuesday, August 22:

4:30 am New York, 10.30 Paris, 9:30 am London, 6:30 pm Sydney

RR23

Netherlands v Hungary

Italy v Croatia

Poland v France

Sweden v France ( seniors)

 

 

8:15 am New York, 14.15 Paris, 1:15 pm London, 10:15 pm Sydney

RR24

England v Italy

Belgium v France

Switzerland v Poland

Denmark v Bulgaria

France v Netherlands (women)

 

 

11:35 am New York, 17.35 Paris, 4:35 pm London

RR25

Germany v Israel

Luxemburg v Italy

France v Belarus

Poland v Greece

France v Estonia (seniors)

[Walddk]

New fixtures here:

 

Wednesday, August 23:

4:30 am New York, 10.30 Paris, 9:30 am London, 6:30 pm Sydney

R15 (seniors)

Netherlands v France

Turkey v Israel

Italy v Wales

England v Sweden

 

 

8:15 am New York, 14.15 Paris, 1:15 pm London, 10:15 pm Sydney

RR26

Israel v Poland

Hungary v France

Italy v Finland

Sweden v Ireland

France v Israel (women)

 

 

11:35 am New York, 17.35 Paris, 4:35 pm London

RR27

Germany v England

Poland v Croatia

Lithuania v Italy

Ireland v Bulgaria

France v ???? (women or seniors)

[Walddk]

New fixtures are:

 

Thursday, August 24:

4:30 am New York, 10.30 Paris, 9:30 am London, 6:30 pm Sydney

RR28

Italy v Germany

England v Poland

Estonia v France

Russia v Denmark

France v Poland (women)

 

 

8:15 am New York, 14.15 Paris, 1:15 pm London, 10:15 pm Sydney

RR29

Poland v Italy

France v San Marino

Israel v Hungary

Denmark v Norway

 

 

11:35 am New York, 17.35 Paris, 4:35 pm London

RR30

Norway v Sweden

France v Romania

Belgium v Italy

Finland - Poland

Sweden v France (women)

[Walddk]

Friday is the penultimate day of the championships with just a single round (open series only) to be played on Saturday morning. Tomorrow's fixtures are:

 

Friday, August 25:

4:30 am New York, 10.30 Paris, 9:30 am London, 6:30 pm Sydney

Denmark v Spain (open)

Netherlands v Finland (seniors)

France v Turkey (seniors)

Scotland v Italy (seniors)

Poland v Denmark (seniors)

 

 

8:15 am New York, 14.15 Paris, 1:15 pm London, 10:15 pm Sydney

RR31

Italy v Belarus

Poland v Lithuania

Latvia v France

England v Germany (women)

France v Norway (women)

 

 

11:35 am New York, 17.35 Paris, 4:35 pm London

RR32

Germany v Poland

France v Serbia

Hungary v Italy

Norway v Ireland

+ 1 To Be Announced

[DenisO]

Could someone explain what happens in the Senior Teams. They had a Round Robin and then they played in groups A & B. But who is the winner and are there qualifiers for Shanghai in 2007?

[paulg]

The top 8 teams in the Seniors round robin qualified for the A Final, and the remaining for the B Final.

 

The top 6 teams in the A Final qualify for Shanghai. If, as seems likely, a seventh berth becomes available then the winners of the B Final will take the place.

 

The event was won by Germany, followed by Sweden, France, Denmark, Poland and Italy. Israel won the B Final.

 

Paul

[Walddk]

In the last round Saturday morning, we will be showing all matches that matter for silver, bronze, 4th, 5th and 6th place (all Bermuda Bowl berths). Italy has a bye and is European Champion for the 7th time in a row!

 

Saturday, August 26:

4:30 am New York, 10.30 Paris, 9:30 am London, 6:30 pm Sydney

R33

Sweden v Iceland

Luxemburg v Poland

Wales v France

Bulgaria v Netherlands

Ireland v Scotland

 

First 6 in the women's series (qualified for the Venice Cup) are:

 

1. France - 2. Netherlands - 3. England - 4. Germany - 5. Denmark - 6. Croatia.

 

Roland