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Permanently seated pairs in Swiss Pairs
I'll be running a Swiss Pairs in a month and a half, and for the first time I may have 2 (or possibly more?) sitting pairs taking part. Is it preferable for both the sitting pairs to be sat in the same direction, or opposite directions? And if more than 2, again what is recommended approach? Thank you -
Who's at fault?
Part 1: Two boards in a round on BBO. There is an issue on the first board which takes the director a while to resolve. As a result, the pairs are unable to complete the bidding on the second board so an artificial score needs to be assigned. Assuming the call was not frivolous and neither side were unhelpful during the… -
Changing Team Line-up
Just ran a Mentored Pivot Team and failed in my attempts to adjust the line-up in EBUScoreTeams. Initially, by default,: N/S 1/2 & E/W 3/4. Then pivoted to N/S 1/3 & E/W 4/2 Then again to N/S 1/4 & E/W 2/3 I adjust manually in the "Seating Line-up" menu and copied to End of Session. The Pivots never came through to the… -
Time to change the guidance for TD's ?
Very recently, I played in a national EBU event on RealBridge and on one board, I had occasion to call the director. The situation was that I was declarer in 3NT and we had reached trick 10 when I led from dummy an established card, the 13th Heart. My RHO discarded in tempo as did I. My LHO however thought for what seemed… -
Opening lead after auction not officially over - ACBL
ACBL club game. Bidding cards are picked up BEFORE the end of the auction. Leaving them on the table would likely have prevented this upcoming question. 1H - Double - 2H - Pass Pass - Double - 3H - Pass Pass - ???? At this point, the doubler asked if the auction was over and both opener and responder said it was over.… -
Insufficient Bid no comparable call
North opened 2H. West played 2 clubs, being 18-22 points and I was called to the table. West said she she did not realise N has opened. She could not think of a comparable bid and did not want to bid 3 clubs. I said she could PASS but her partner would be barred from bidding. North objected and said THATS NOT RIGHT, so I… -
Ten seconds!
The Blue Book says "After a jump bid, the next player MUST pause for about ten seconds before calling. It is an offence either not to pause or to show indifference when pausing". Let's say (because I have had two such cases recently) that East deals and opens 2 of a major and this is alerted. South has to appear at least… -
Swiss Teams - triples
I have been testing the EBU Swiss Teams program for an upcoming event. I used UK format, 10 teams (to make life easy), 2 sessions each of 3 matches. 8 boards per round, IMP scoring (to make entering results easy). I then made sure that team 9 kept losing so were in the triple more than once. On the first round of the… -
Declarer concedes a trick, dummy objects
Something weird that happened at the table recently: declarer stated that they were conceding 1 trick (and claiming the rest), but did not show their hand. At this point, trumps had been drawn and there were enough top honours to score the remaining trick (including some in each of the remaining suits, and with no entry… -
Revoke ruling
Contract 2H by South. West leads SK SK, A, 3, 4 HA, 6, 3, 9 H2, Q, K, C2* HJ, D3*, H5, S5 S7, 2, J, 6 CQ, 3, 6, 4 C5, K, A, 8 At this point West announces that they have revoked, having found the HT behind the C8 Everyone agrees that the revoke(s) are established. The TD was playing and we knew we would have to call them…