mess, more mess and adjustment

[blackshoe]

There were hand records at ACBL events even before the Duplimate was invented.

 

I haven't used ACBLScore in 15 years or more, but back then it was really easy. There was a sort of matrix and you just changed "21" to "27" every time it appeared. I think that most club directors probably do know how to make this sort of change in ACBLScore -- what do they do when a table plays a board in the wrong direction in a Howell movement?

 

I know. But there are Duplimates now, and generally speaking, when I see a printed hand record, I can be pretty sure there was a Duplimate involved. Perhaps not in this game though - like Axman I'd missed that it was an "ACBL wide international fund game". As for the ease of change, I suppose I was thinking of one of our local directors, whose knowledge of ACBLScore basically extends to firing it up and going through her pre-memorized list of which buttons to push. I grant that it's pretty easy if you know what you're doing - which makes me wonder why the TD on the day didn't do it. The board 27 that was substituted should (or at least could) have been the pre-dealt 27 for the event.

[barmar]

I know. But there are Duplimates now, and generally speaking, when I see a printed hand record, I can be pretty sure there was a Duplimate involved. Perhaps not in this game though - like Axman I'd missed that it was an "ACBL wide international fund game". As for the ease of change, I suppose I was thinking of one of our local directors, whose knowledge of ACBLScore basically extends to firing it up and going through her pre-memorized list of which buttons to push. I grant that it's pretty easy if you know what you're doing - which makes me wonder why the TD on the day didn't do it. The board 27 that was substituted should (or at least could) have been the pre-dealt 27 for the event.

He apparently knew how to use the Fouled Board feature, although it's kind of strange that the groups were named F and G -- I thought it called the first group A, then B, and so on.

[olegru]

I talk to head director and he fixed the issue. Actually he was working on fixing it when I came to talk about this board. Apparently I was not the only one complaining about that and there there were additional issues I did not know. Anyway just posting this message to admit his good job. http://clubresults.acbl.org/Results/232132/2012/01/120128A.HTM

Now there is the correct board 33 (board I actually played) in the scoresheet.

[gordontd]

Ah yes - the vulnerability question. Well done for your win.

[mycroft]

ACBLScore fouled board procedure, you tell ACBLScore that this board was fouled, and it asks you to mark the fouled ones - which will come out as "F" (for fouled), yes.

 

On the rare cases where the board was fouled twice, leading to three groups, the third group is marked "G" (for F+1, I guess).

[Gerardo]

The fact that it was an ACBL-wide game might had made the directorreluctant to replace the board for all.

[bluejak]

You have used some phrases that do not mean much in America without explanation.

olegru is posting from

 

Location: NY, NY

 

Is New York no longer in America? :D :)

[barmar]

America is the great melting pot. Many people who play here are not from here.

 

I've never heard the phrase "in protocol" used here in a bridge context.