WE RUN A MIX OF FACE-TO-FACE AND ONLINE GAMES.
Principles
- We want to hold quality events to keep the top players playing and to help the remainder develop <--- we will not refuse entries, but are looking to other events to cater for a wider audience
- A fixed time for these sessions saves players a lot of thinking and planning, and Monday evening seems the obvious candidate. <--- we will make 1930 Mondays our standard time for online
- We are not in competition with the EBU and clubs for running events - so what we do must be different from both. <--- we will concentrate on teams, and on pairs events where top pairs play only top pairs etc.
- We need to provide a mix of pairs and teams, the former for ease of attendance and the latter to balance out the pairs provision from clubs. <--- we will alternate between teams and pairs
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LATEST NEWS
- The GCBA is moving to RealBridge for its monthly Teams League (but only that for now) and is adopting the use of "self-announcing" and "screens" for these events. Self-announcing is the style commonly used on BBO where you type an explanation of your bid before making it - and this avoids a lot of Unauthorised Information issues which arise in face-to-face games. The screens hide partner and one of the opposition from the first bid to the last card played in each deal - and also cuts on the UI around, but more positively gives you a free space to chat to one of your opponents without disturbing the others at the table.
LATEST ADVICE :
- The latest version of MacOS (“Big Sur”) has created issues with using the Safari browser. So, if you have MacBook and iMac users who have upgraded to “Big Sur”, please ask them not to use Safari. Any other browser like Chrome will work fine.
- Note that iPad users must continue to use Safari. **NEW** using a Bluetooth Mouse can make the IPAD experience a lot smoother.
- Players should use the redial button about every hour. It is on the right of the eye.
Realbridge is a new online platform giving us the chance to play Duplicate Bridge Tournaments. Please look at the realbridge.online website for more definitive information. Here are some snippets which might help you understand it ...
- Realbridge has not yet been officially launched but it is allowing many organisations to test it out.
- Realbridge does not (yet) support drop-in bridge as BBO does, but only runs organised Tournaments.
- Each Tournament has its own web link which is like a link into a specially created room for that Tournament., and the TD constructs that room and distributes the link to the players to use.
- When you join an event you can give yourself whatever name you like, but if the TD doesn't like it or recognise it, you might get thrown out.
- Realbridge and some of the clubs using it, and the EBU occasionally, offer trial sessions which allow "visitors" to try out the facilities and see what they are like.
- Realbridge has a kibitzing capability (kibitz.realbridge.online) but only specific prestige events allow kibitzing.
- There is no results service on Realdbridge yet - tournament organisers do get all the detailed results but they must display them elsewhere, eg the clubs website.
Later points
- RealBridge will not run on old IPADs, and my one attempt on an Android Tablet failed.
- If you have any more experiences to report that could be helpful for others, please let me know (Patrick@gcba.org.uk)
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| GEOFFREY PATERSON trophy |
This is awarded annually to whoever collects the greatest number of Master Points on Monday evenings, in the September to August year. Those who have played in the top County team (Dawes or Tollemache) in the past three years are not eligible. The trophy was given to the County by Jamie Paterson, Geoffrey's son in 2011.
Winners in the past have been
- 2011 : Anne Swannell ahead of Richard Harris
- 2012 : Tony Letts ahead of Richard Harris
- 2013 : Paul Lilley ahead of Wendy Angseesing
- 2014 : Anne Swannell ahead of Richard Harris
- 2015 : Wendy Angseesing ahead of Lesley Harrison
- 2016 : Martin McWilliam ahead of Paul Lilley
- 2017 : Ashok Kwatra ahead of Peter Swales
- 2018 : Roger Schofield ahead of Tony Letts
- 2019 : Mike Wignall ahead of Ashok Kwatra
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