playermuv Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Is this site contract or duplicate bridge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanoi5 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Essentially duplicate, but duplicate is a form of contract. There are several forms of contract bridge and several forms of the subset known as duplicate. I have rarely if ever seen a purely 'rubber' problem posed, but there is nothing that prohibits it. I suspect that few regular posters have a lot of experience with that form of contract bridge, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfay Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Essentially duplicate, but duplicate is a form of contract. There are several forms of contract bridge and several forms of the subset known as duplicate. I have rarely if ever seen a purely 'rubber' problem posed, but there is nothing that prohibits it. I suspect that few regular posters have a lot of experience with that form of contract bridge, however. Not exactly a regular poster but my mom has recently been attempting to learn how to play and just today she asked me about honors (100/150 honors). I told her how it worked and she said, "Does that go above the line or below the line?" "Hell if I know." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Above the line. You can download the rubber laws from the ACBL web site (and probably other places). The technically correct term has always been "duplicate contract bridge", with "rubber" technically called "contract bridge". However, in the latest revision to the duplicate laws, both the ACBL and the WBF removed the word "contract" on the grounds that all previous versions of the game (for example auction bridge) have effectively died out. Note; "duplicate" is not a correct substitution for "pairs", nor is "matchpoints". For one thing, "pairs" is a kind of format for the games (as opposed to "individual" or "teams"), and "matchpoints" is a form of scoring (as opposed to "IMPs" or "aggregate"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Not exactly a regular poster but my mom has recently been attempting to learn how to play and just today she asked me about honors (100/150 honors). I told her how it worked and she said, "Does that go above the line or below the line?" "Hell if I know." Think about it -- if honours went below the line, you'd score a game in any contract, whether it made or not. Even if you were defending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bbradley62 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Is this site contract or duplicate bridge?If (as I suspect): you mean BridgeBaseOnline (not the forums) when you refer to "this site", and you're wanting to know about the distinction between rubber bridge and duplicate (not contract and duplicate), then it is absolutely not a rubber bridge site. You can play "total points", so it is not 100% duplicate, but you cannot play rubber bridge here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtK78 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Please remove duplicate.No. Rubber bridge is not duplicate bridge. Duplicate means that all of the competitors are playing the same hands in a manner so that comparisons are possible between the pairs playing the same hands (whether in individual, pair or team competition). So removing the word duplicate would be an error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 No. Rubber bridge is not duplicate bridge. Duplicate means that all of the competitors are playing the same hands in a manner so that comparisons are possible between the pairs playing the same hands (whether in individual, pair or team competition). So removing the word duplicate would be an error. I think Vampyr posted the same thing twice, and "remove duplicate" refers to her duplicate post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr1303 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 You can still play rubber bridge if you use the old Windows client. It isn't very popular... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtK78 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 I think Vampyr posted the same thing twice, and "remove duplicate" refers to her duplicate post.LOL. I completely misunderstood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 I think Vampyr posted the same thing twice, and "remove duplicate" refers to her duplicate post.And I removed it without noticing that someone had replied. I admit that when I first saw the post I had the same misreading. In most threads it's pretty obvious what is meant, but it was ambiguous here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 I admit that when I first saw the post I had the same misreading. In most threads it's pretty obvious what is meant, but it was ambiguous here. LOL, yes it was ambiguous here; it did not occur to me until I saw the reply! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfay Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Think about it -- if honours went below the line, you'd score a game in any contract, whether it made or not. Even if you were defending. That may be true but my problem at the time was I didn't remember where game-going values where scored. She actually straightened me out on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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