Barometer scoring

Vlad

Is it possible to do barometer scoring in a Howell movement? If so how does EBU Score handle it? I haven't been able to find it in the EBU Score list.

gordonrainsford

When you select the movement, click on Barometer Pairs

JeffreyS

Yes as Gordon describes, and any movement can be made barometer, but it's not very practical or recommended as you will need more than one set of boards with the same set played each round.

Robin_BarkerTD

@gordonrainsford said:
When you select the movement, click on Barometer Pairs

This doesn't always work (as Gordon discovered once), If the movement is already barometer, but does not start at board 1 in round 1, then clicking on barometer pairs will change the movement to playing the boards in order.

When the ranked masters pairs was face-to-face and all events were barometer, the boards were shared between events: one event would start at board 1 and another event would play the same boards and start at board 13, There were many different 'endless howell' movements with different starting boards,

Of course, playing a standalone event you can always play the boards in order. It is better to play an endless barometer howell rather than an ordinary howell with barometer pairs ticked - because the balance will be better.

@JeffreyS said:
Yes as Gordon describes, and any movement can be made barometer, but it's not very practical or recommended as you will need more than one set of boards with the same set played each round.abou

You will need T/2 or T/1.5 board sets, where T is the number of tables, unless you have long rounds and adopt the Scandinavian model of one board per table and the remaining boards in a spare table in the middle - this can be done with T/1.2 board sets (apparently).

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Vlad

Thanks all

CMOT_Dibbler

@Robin_BarkerTD said:

You will need T/2 or T/1.5 board sets, where T is the number of tables, Unless you have long rounds and adopt the Scandinavian model of one board per table and the remaining boards in a spare table in the middle - this can be done with T/1.2 board sets (apparently).

Sorry, very silly question but in the context of the thread isn't T/1.2 greater than T/1.5 and T/2? So how does the Scandinavian model use less board sets? Or have I read this incorrectly.

Robin_BarkerTD

@CMOT_Dibbler said:

@Robin_BarkerTD said:

You will need T/2 or T/1.5 board sets, where T is the number of tables, Unless you have long rounds and adopt the Scandinavian model of one board per table and the remaining boards in a spare table in the middle - this can be done with T/1.2 board sets (apparently).

Sorry, very silly question but in the context of the thread isn't T/1.2 greater than T/1.5 and T/2? So how does the Scandinavian model use less board sets? Or have I read this incorrectly.

Let me think...

Two boards a table or perhaps 3 boards for two tables.
That is 2T/B where B is the number of boards in a round (number of boards in play at the same time), or (3/2)T/B; or (1.2)T/B is you are Scandinavian and prepared to get up and fetch several boards each round.

Sorry.