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County Events & Local Charity Events

If you're interested in what might be going on outside the club go to County Calendar / Events on the menu to find out what events are being run by Berks & Bucks, Hants/ IoW, and the Chiltern League. Also see Local Charity bridge Events.

Convention Cards

A reminder from the  directors: If you are playing anything but very basic ACOL you and your partner both require the same printed convention card available for perusal by your opponents. The easiest way to achieve this is to download a card from the EBU by clicking  HERE  You can then modify it to your own system. If you are unable to download one for any reason there are also now some blank convention cards in the cupboard in the playing room.

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Scoring at Newbury
  1. EBU P2P

All club events apart from Rubber events are submitted to the EBU for P2P (Pay to Play).  The Universal Member Subscription (UMS) covers all duplicate and team events played at the club and when submitting an event to the EBU a USM code is applied.  Current codes in use by Newbury are as follow:

03 - Free of charge (up to 3 per year) used for charity events

06 - Children in Need Simultaneous Pairs. Free of charge

10 - Qualifies for NGS (see para 6) and Master Points

11 - No NGS and no Master Points, qualifies for magazine points

USM 03 - Southern Salver, as it is an individual event it qualifies for master points only

USM 06 - Children in Need event, qualifies for NGS and master points

USM 10 - All Tuesday evening and Thursday evening events.  And Round the Houses Teams which qualifies for master points only.

USM 11 - All other duplicate events

The USM code which is applied to an event is at the discretion of the Newbury committee.  Further details on the USM system can be found on the EBU website:

https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/universal-membership/player-session-rates.pdf

  1. Substitutes

The EBU standard is that any boards played by a substitute player or a robot substitute are considered to have been played by the original player.  This only applies for up to half the total number of boards.  If the substitute player or robot plays more that 50% of the boards then they get the score.

  1. Correction period

3.1       For face to face (F2F) sessions

When an event’s score is posted on the NBC website there is a 48 hour correction period. This means that if on checking anyone notices an error it can be raised within this period and any corrections implemented.

Implementation of a correction only happens once the Director of the event has approved it. Normally mistakes are highlighted within the first 24 hours.  All corrected results are published to the Newbury website for checking.

After the correction period expires the event’s result is posted to the EBU.

3.2       For online bridge sessions

BBO (Bridge Base Online).  Keeping in step with BBO the correction period for these events is 20 minutes, as also defined in the EBU White Book.

RealBridge. No club correction period currently defined so it defaults to the EBU White Book recommendation, this being 20 minutes.

  1. Board fine

A fine on a board can be issued by the director.  This is a small penalty for a pair, typically it is 10% of a top for the board.  The board is scored as played and therefore the fine does not affect other pairs in the event.

Applying the fine after the board is scored means that only the infringing pair’s overall score is reduced.

  1. Neuberg Match Point Calculation Method

Following an EBU recommendation the committee has decided to adopt Neuberg Scoring.

This system which can deal with decimals rather than whole numbers is applied when for some reason a board or boards need adjustment.

Examples include

  • A board not being played through lack of time, and the director awarding an average ‘AV’ 50% or average minus ‘AV-’ 40% or average plus ‘AV+’ 60%. This is in line with the Laws of the Game, Law 12.

  • When the cards are put back in the wrong slots or the wrong number of cards are put back in the correct slot and the director awards a board fine.

For more details on Neuberg scoring:

https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/laws-and-ethics/articles/neuberg-formula.pdf

  1. NGS (EBU National Grading Scheme)

An individual’s NGS is calculated by the EBU from all events submitted to the EBU with the appropriate USM, this includes both club and non-club events.

When an event is posted to the EBU a new NGS grade is automatically calculated for each player in the event. Once an event is posted the new grades are available by at the latest the following day.

Each member can log into the EBU website and they will be able to see their grade evolve as each event is processed by the EBU website.

To find your NGS grade: https://www.ebu.co.uk/members/v2

It takes 10 to 12 events to get a published NGS grade.

NGS grades are used for the Prize Handicap and Challenge Cup club events.

If a member’s grade is private then they are not edible to enter the following competitions.

6.1       Prize Handicap - a monthly competition (currently suspended)

The NGS grades used for the Prize Handicap are the latest ones available on the EBU website at the time of the event.

After the Prize Handicap event is complete an adjustment is made to the score which using the current NGS grades and this new result determines the winners.

The adjustment is simply done by adding each pairs NGS grades together dividing by 2 and applying this to the pair’s score.

The Prize Handicap result posted to the EBU has the handicap adjustment removed.

6.2       Challenge Cup - a yearly competition

The Challenge Cup event runs once a month.

For club members who do not have an NGS grade when entering the competition the committee decided they should be awarded a temporary NGS grade of -8.  Once the new member has an actual NGS grade this will replace the -8.

 

  1. NGS Grade Bands

In the member’s area on the NBC website there is a tab, “NGS Grades”, which displays the members NGS grades in grade bands.  The website takes a snapshot of all the NGS grades from the EBU on the 1st of the month.  These are converted to grade bands. 

Grade bands are not used anywhere and are seen by the EBU as a useful way of displaying published NGS grade information.

Individuals are classified for example as a “Jack” or a “Ten” etc. Each grade band covers a 2% range with an “Eight” being in the range of 49-51%

  1. NGS Event Ranking

The NGS grade for an event can be found at the bottom of the result ranking page on the website:

NGS Event Ranking

:

50.75%

Director

:

Liz Madeley

Scorer

:

Jackie Woods

Scoring Software

:

ScoreBridge

Results Session

:

10141

Results Filename

:

2014Nov06!Prize_Handicap!.dat

Uploaded

:

7th Nov 2014 18:05 GMT

The website takes all the NGS grades from the snapshot taken on the 1st of the month to produce an average grade from all the participants in the event.  This is the NGS Event Ranking.

NGS grades do vary as results are sent in during the month however an event’s NGS Event Ranking is always based on the snapshot of grades taken at the start of the month.

The NGS Event Ranking is for information purposes only to give an idea of the strength of the event.

John Foster

Chief Scorer