Argentina USA 1 Match

[aroth]

Hi Roland

 

I entered 3 times since the match Argentina -USA1 finished, no hands in the file..do you know when the file will be available?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Ana

[Walddk]

Hi Ana,

 

It's all in our archives. The first part is empty, but you must scroll down to the boards they actually played in that match (17-32).

 

Roland

[mrdct]

Is that because the hand data files used in matches using boards 17-32 also include boards 1-16 from an earlier match? That would seem to pose some security issues.

 

It's quite easy to split a dup file into two separate files using a text editor which would alleviate this problem. Basically all you would need to do is open up the dup file in Notepad, delete the first 16 lines and then save. You will now have a dup file on just the last 16 boards which during set up you tell BBO start at 17.

[Zmud99]

Which security problem ? because when we use 17-32 boards in a 1-32 dup files we haved already played 1-16....

 

The problem is when you split a dup files ....players start at board 17 but BBO vugraph display board 1.....

 

If you have a solution to start a broadcast at board 17 in a 16 board dup file i will take it :)

[Gerardo]

BBO software asks you the starting board number when you create the vugraph file.

[mrdct]

Which security problem ? because when we use 17-32 boards in a 1-32 dup files we haved already played 1-16....

 

The problem is when you split a dup files ....players start at board 17 but BBO vugraph display board 1.....

 

If you have a solution to start a broadcast at board 17 in a 16 board dup file i will take it :)

If the 1-32 dup file has already had boards 1-16 played in an earlier session there a couple of security issues:

 

1. In the earlier match there is a risk, albeit small, that an operator could accidentally redeal to board 17 and thereby put that hand in the public domain well before players take their seats for the match using boards 17-32.

 

2. The dup file containing board 1-32 may be saved on to one or more operators' hard drives which could result in "price-sensitive" information about boards 17-32 being outside the WBF's control well before the time the boards are actually played.

 

As for starting at board 17, when you load the dup file there is question about which is the first board in your session to which you simply say "17" (assuming you are loading a file that has had boards 1-16 deleted from it).

 

I think it always safest and neatest to have a separate dup file for each session which only contains the hands for that session.

[Zmud99]

1) in the earlier match , WBF provide us 1-16 board dup files of course and NEVER provide us 1-32 dup files...they provide us 1-32 dup files when they will play board 17 at first. and only when we have already play 1 to 16..so we can't show board 17 when they play 1-16 because we don't have board 17 on any dup

 

2) of course i try to fill "number of board to start" at 17 when logging dup file but it doesn't work....as you said you have to delete first 1-16 board and i cant do that in the hurry....