Tournaments for intermediates

[peterfnyc]

Hi

 

I like playing in the ACBL tournaments. $1 for 12 boards is a good deal. In real life tournaments, there are often tournaments for people with different numbers of master points. Since I only have about 70 right now, and am still a low intermediate, they give me a chance to play with people close to my skill.

 

Could BBO do this?

 

In current tournaments, I think many players are quite advanced and so, I usually come near the bottom

 

Thanks!

[Bbradley62]

Aren't the ACBL tournaments on BBO stratified? This should take care of your "placing" problem.

[barmar]

Aren't the ACBL tournaments on BBO stratified? This should take care of your "placing" problem.

Exactly. This is similar to most ACBL f2f club games and tournaments. Flighted games are pretty rare these days, most are stratified, although at large tournaments there are strati-flighted games.

[mycroft]

But frequently there are Intermediate/Novice games limited to X99 MPs, and those are separate.

 

Having said that, playing too much of that is bad for your bridge. You learn skills that win against the other novices, that lose badly against experienced players. And the longer you play in the I/N game, the more those skills become habits, and the harder they are to break once they don't work any more.

 

If you're scoring occasionally in Flight C of the BBO ACBL tournaments, you're probably in the right spot. If you're 31% every time, maybe not.