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Directors, Scorers & Dealers
 
 
  Running a Pairs Event

Guidance Notes for Directors

Arrive 30 minutes before starting time.

Preparation

Collect the office keys from the hotel reception & find out if the room needs to be cleared at the end of the evening
Collect table money (you will find others willing to do this for you). Either give the money to the Treaurer on a committee member.
Do not leave the table money in the office but take it home and make a Bacs transfer to the club account.
Make sure that visitors are asked to fill in the Visitors Book if they have not already done so.
Put out Bridgemate units trying to keep all the tables in one complete circle. Check the standard room layout.
Avoid kinking of the circle as this can cause errors in moving players and boards between rounds.
If it is absolutely necessary to have tables out of line then inform the North players of the adjoining tables.
Advise them of the tables from which and the tables to which the boards have to move.
Select the movement (see standard Pair or Team movements) and distribute boards to each table.
Before starting the play advise everyone clearly of how many tables there are and how many boards for each round.
Also announce any relay tables there are and where they are, any half tables in play and any sharing tables.
Announce that the names may be entered in the Bridgemate and that pair numbers should be taken from the Bridgemate display.

Play

Sit as north at table 1. This allows you to observe the  room and look after any sharing of boards.
Allow 14 minutes per round for 2 boards, 20 minutes for 3 boards and 26 minutes for 4 boards.
Announce each move clearly and state whether it is a standard move or skip move.
Keep an eye on any table which is falling behind. If necessary quietly let them know they should try to speed up.
If delays continue the players should be reminded that any board not actually in play when a move is called may not be played.
It is up to the director to record the result of a missed board. Enter 'Not Played' if the board is to be played later.
If there is an arrow switch make sure that all tables are aware of this.

Other duties

When called to a table to adjudicate only allow the person calling you to state why you were called.
After their statement you should get confirmation from all the others as to the correctness of the statement.
Always carry the rule book with you, find the appropriate rule and read out the penalty if necessary.
If there are alternative actions ALL options should be stated before asking the person concerned which option they wish to use.
If a player does not agree with your ruling they may make an appeal at the end of the session.
Other directors playing on the night should be requested to review your decision and revise it if necessary.
In the event of complaints of inappropriate behaviour the committee should be informed.
Any Psychic bidding should be recorded and notified to the committee.

Completion

When play is finished all boards need to be placed in numerical order and the room left tidy.
North should be requested to ensure that bidding boxes and and Bridgemates are stored and, when necessary the table cloths as well.
Office keys should be returned to reception.

Last updated : 10th Dec 2018 11:27 GMT
  Bridgemate II - Guidance for Directors

The Bridgemates have been be set up with the flexible setting for section and table.
If this has been changed use the 'setup' soft key in the initial screen.
The code to unlock the setup is 749.

A pdf of an abridged version  Bridgemate II Manual is available (Chapter 5, pages 33 to 51 are relevant in this context)

To access the TD menu press the TDMENU function key whenever it is visible. The Bridgemate will ask for the TD PIN code (0000).
The TD-menu consists of two pages. Use the up and down function key to navigate between the two pages.
To exit the menu, press the BACK function key.

The TD-menu has ten options

1. To enter an arbitral (adjusted) score, press 1.

2. For an overview of the entered scores, press 2.

3. To delete an entry, press 3.

4. To view the corresponding table and section of the Bridgemate and/or the corresponding round and pairs, press ‘4’ (retrieve status).

5. To retrieve an overview of the board numbers not yet entered, press 5.

6. To retrieve a score recap of the current round, press 6.

7. A sub-menu for various hand record functions.

8. To reset the Bridgemate press '0'.

9. To set the contrast on the screen, press + to make the screen darker or – to make thescreen lighter.

10. To retransmit all scores to the server, press the RESEND function key.

Last updated : 5th Apr 2019 09:44 GMT

Last updated : 7th Aug 2019 13:51 GMT
  Club Teams Movements (EBU Score)

two    2 Tables - 1 Match - 26 Boards

M134 (3)   3 Tables American Whist - 2 Matches 13 Boards
M135 (3)  3 Tables American Whist - 4 Rounds of 6 Boards (score break)
BH3  3 Tables Irregular - 4 Rounds of 6 Boards

M138 (4)    4 Tables Circulation - 3 Matches 9 Boards
BH3  4 Tables Irregular - 4 Rounds of 6 Boards

M134 (24 or 28)    5 Tables American Whist - 4 Matches 6 or 7 Boards

M140 (6)      6 Tables Thurner - 5 Matches 5 Boards
M137
(6)      6 Tables Stagger - 5 Matches 5 Boards

M134 (7)    7 Tables American Whist - 6 Matches 4 Boards

M141 (8)      8 Tables Thurner - 7 Matches 4 Boards
M137 (8)      8 Tables Stagger - 7 Matches 4 Boards

M134 (9)   9 Tables American Whist - 8 Matches 3 Boards

M137 (10)     10 Tables Stagger - 9 Matches 3 Boards

M136 (11)    11 Tables American Whist - 10 Matches 2/3 Boards

M137 (12)    12 Tables Stagger - 11 Matches 2/3 Boards

M136 (13)    13 Tables American Whist - 12 Matches 2 Boards

Note that the initial reference is to the page number in 2012 edition of Manning.
These descriptions of the movements are included in EBU Score

Movement Summary for downloading

Last updated : 6th Feb 2020 17:32 GMT
  2017 Law summary

This page gives a summary of the changes (sections changed) to the Laws of  Duplicate Bridge as promulgated by the World Bridge Federation and introduced in England on 1st August 2008, please go to the EBU Page for more information.

Changes affecting Players

7C

You should shuffle your cards after the hand before returning them to the board.

16B3

You are still required to agree a hesitation, for example, when it happens and the TD should be summoned if there is any disagreement. The new laws state that the best to time to claim actual damage is at the end of the hand (e.g. rather than on sight of dummy).

20F3

You are now allowed to ask about the meaning of an individual call in the opponents’ auction. But it shouldn’t be done in such a way as to suggest a call or play to partner such as "does that 2H bid show hearts?" – perhaps indicating that the questioner holds hearts.

20G1

Sometimes players ask questions because they do not think their partner has understood. It is illegal to do so.

40B2(b)

41B/C

There is a short period between the final pass and the first card being faced, when questions are asked. This is now called the Clarification Period. Members of the declaring side may consult their own system cards during this time to make sure nothing has been misexplained, for example.

41D

When you put the dummy down you must display it with the lowest ranking cards nearer declarer.

61B2b

Dummy cannot ask a defender whether he has revoked (In 1997 it was in 42B1 and still is but is repeated here). However he can still ask declarer.

61B3

Defenders are allowed to ask one another whether they have revoked. This returns to a situation outlawed in 1987.

65B3

Players are now allowed to point out that a quitted trick card is pointing the wrong way. Declarer can do it at any time; dummy or defenders can do it only until the lead is made to the following trick.

72

It’s now official - the chief object while playing is to obtain a higher score than other contestants!

Changes affecting Directors

12C1(c)

The concept of ‘weighted’ adjusted scores becomes the norm in England. It has been in place since 2000 as an option but it now replaces the current law 12C2. 12C1(e) does not apply in England.

Example: Due to an infraction the TD disallows a score of 4S by E/W and puts it back to 4H by N/S. There is a 50/50 chance that N/S will make 10 or 11 tricks, so the TD can award 50% of 4H= and 50% of 4H+1. See the White Book p27 for full details. An article will follow in a future English Bridge.

25B

In the current (1997) code there is a little known law that allows you to make a call and then ‘change your mind’. It was quite a well kept secret and had a strange penalty where you could play for at most 40% after you had done it. In the new laws that has gone. You can still make a ‘mechanical error’ and be allowed to change it (L25A) but you cannot change your mind. By and large a bid made cannot be changed.

27

This is both complicated to explain and understand and may be difficult to apply. There is a significant change to the insufficient bid law. The scope for allowing an insufficient bid (IB) to be replaced without silencing partner has been extended. The old rule of replacing it at the lowest legal level remains, provided that both bids (the IB and replacement bid) are natural. But there is now an added possibility, which comes if a replacement call can be found which has the same meaning, or a more precise meaning as the IB itself.

Confused? Well, Max Bavin has come up with a useful question that TDs should ask, which might help to make it easier to decide. Would all hands making the replacement call also have made the original call in correct circumstances? If the answer is yes, then the change is allowed.

Here are a few examples:

West
North
East
South
1C
1S
1D
 

East/West play Precision Club, so 1C shows 16+ HCP and, without interference, 1D shows 0-7 HCP. Can East replace his 1D bid by double if he has 5-7 points? They play that over interference pass shows 0-4 HCP and double 5-7 HCPs.

Would all hands playing Precision Club that would now double also have bid 1D without interference? Yes, so the change can be made and partner can continue bidding. Note that in this case pass would also be okay if East had 0-4 points.

West
North
East
South
(other bids...)
4NT
5D
5C
 

4NT was Blackwood, East missed the 5D bid and 5C showed 0 or 4 aces. East/West play DOPI over intervention (double shows no ace, pass shows one ace). Can East replace 5C by double? Yes, all hands that would double to show no ace, would also have bid 5C without the interference.

40

This law confirms a number of things already in EBU regulations. It also confirms that you cannot have any aide-memoires or aids to calculation. So you cannot, for example, during the play take out the bidding card to see what 4Hxx + 2 will score for you.

64

The criteria for transferring tricks after an established revoke is changed. The TD no longer has to look at whether ‘an additional trick was won by the offending player with a card that could legally have been played to the revoke trick’. Instead he adjudicates either two tricks or one trick as now, and then looks to see whether equity has been served. Deciding whether equity has been served becomes the norm. It always was, but it is now even more important that the TD considers it.

70

The claim laws acknowledge that, even though play should cease after a claim, it often does not and the TD is given help on how to proceed.

70, 71

The claim and concession laws still refer to action that would be careless or inferior for the class of player involved, but the bit about being ‘irrational’ has been removed.

80

The Laws recognize a body called the Tournament Organizer which could be the Club, the County Association, a Congress or Holiday Organizer or the EBU itself and sets out the duties and responsibilities. It replaces the Sponsoring Organisation in the current laws.

Last updated : 31st Mar 2018 16:19 GMT