| 2022 Results Too Complicated? Nah 😊 |
 From the Players (ranking) list, we initially get a cluttered display showing four panels:the players list (again!), overall results, analysis of how well we played, and the board manager. Just how these will be arranged will depend on the type of computer you're using: desktop with plenty of screen space, laptop with a smaller screen, tablet to iPad (smaller still) or even your phone**
The very first thing to do is collapse the players list (which you have just come from!). It will still be available, through the + PLAYERS control, shown with the green arrow (1), although as you will see, you won't need to.
Then you may well want to collapse the analysis panel, which shows your contract success rate, HCP average and so on. Again, you can expand this again with a click on the +ANALYSIS control (blue arrow 2) after you've looked around the board results.
We're in discussion with BridgeWebs and hopefully we will soon be able to display these panels collapsed as default.
That's all for now, folks. With just two clicks, collapsing the Players list and Analysis statistics, you're ready to dig as deep as you'd like into your board results.
Is it worth it? We'll dig into the benefits of the improved 2022 Results display next.
Please leave a comment if anything needs further attention, and what you think so far of the 2022 Results display.
Click anywhere on this page to return to the Home page.
** With such a small screen on a phone, all four panels are stacked one on top of another. Much better to use the BridgeWebs app, designed for phones. See "NWP, ABF and other Links" on the main menu for details.
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| Bas Bolt’s 1C transfer cheet sheet |
1C transfer cheat sheet
Open 1C with 2+ clubs
Responder bids:
1D = 4+H, 6+p
1H = 4+S, 6+p
1S = no Majors
1NT = 8-10p, good reason to declare
2NT = 10-12p, — ditto —
3NT = 12-16p. — ditto —
Rebids by opener:
1M = 3c support, minimum
2M = 4c support, minimum
3M = 4c support, 6 losers (16-18p)
4M = 4c support, 5 losers
1NT = balanced min, denies 3c support
2NT = balanced 18-19, could have 3c support.
Transfer responses after interference:
1C - X - all systems ON
1C - 1D - X = Stolen bid, 1H/1S still transfers
1C - 1H - X = Stolen bid, 1S still transfers
1C - 1S - X = normal non-transfer showing 4 Hearts
1C - any higher bid system off
Opponents make an artificial bid:
X = I have this suit
bid opponents suit = Takeout
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1C transfer cheat sheet
Open 1C with 2+ clubs
Responder bids:
1D = 4+H, 6+p
1H = 4+S, 6+p
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| End of Year Pivot Teams |
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Nine Pivot Teams at work after a great Christmas lunch. A big thank you to all those involved in its preparation.
It’s a while since we had nine tables. Lets look forward to a good rise in table numbers in the coming year.
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11:30 for 12:00 Monday 12th
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| 🎂 Happy Birthday John Bentley 🎂 |
 
John Bentley, Grand Master and stalwart member of our club for the past quarter century.
Happy Brthday, John. 28 November 2022.
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| Bas Bolt on 1C transfer bidding |
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Thank you for your explanation of the 1♣ Transfer bidding system, Bas.
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| Covid-19 Rules for Play 2022 |
We do require that you are fully vaccinated before playing.
Face masks are optional.
Click on this news item for the latest NSW Government online information page.
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| 2022 Club Pairs Championship |
Well done, Lewis and Colin on an unbeatable 2022 Pairs Championship result.
For the complete results, click here.
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Thank you, Bas Bolt
for your session on hand evaluation 19th August.
Click “… see more” for Bas’s summary.
Plus features
- Points
- Shape
- Rank, Length in Major suits
- Touching honours
- Many intermediates
- Honours and intermediates in long suits
- Aces and tens
- Honours over oppositions suit
- Honours in partner’s suit
Minus features
- Lack of intermediates
- 4-3-3-3 distribution
- Honours in short suits, esp Qs and Js
- Unsupported or non-touching honours
- Jacks
- Honours under opps suit
Important principles of good hand evaluation
Flexibility as the bidding progresses your hand values change.
How good is your hand relative to your bidding so far?
Don't bid the same values multiple times. Esp. strong hands
and preempts
Don't undervalue weak hands
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Thank you, Bas Bolt
for your session on hand evaluation 19th August.
Click “… see more” for Bas’s summary. ..........
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| Pairs Championship Qualifiers |
The following have qualified for the 2022 Pairs Championship to be held on 26th August and 2nd September.
- John Bentley and Dorothea Bonney-McCoy
- Joe Fitzpatrick and Lorraine O’Brien
- Colin Manley and Lewis Seychell
- Gail McCombie and Bas Bolt
- Helen Fisher and Pat Clark
- Ian Wright and Imogen von Muenchhausen
- Neil and Lin Clark
- Dianne Hinde and Heather York
- David and Vicki Fell
- Glenda Guest and Eva Crow
Well done, qualifiers. To those who didn’t make it this time, you are welcome to be at these sessions for social bridge.
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| Hand Evaluation |
Some hand just don’t seem to work?
Bas Bolt will discuss hand evaluation at 12:15
prior to the Pairs Championship qualifier (see the bulletin at left) on Friday 19th August
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| A good bridge player needs to be able to count to 13, so how many players are there here? |
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| 2/1 Bidding Resources |
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Just a few of the good resources you can find for 2/1 game force bidding…
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| Like to Play 2/1 Game Force? |
Whether you'd like to play 2/1, or just know more about it to understand what your opponents are doing, here's a great chance.
Bas Bolt will be addressing the 2/1 Game Force improvement to Standard American from 12:15 Friday 29th July before our usual Friday session.
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| Sorry - No Christmas In July |
 Sorry folks - Santa can't come on 29th July as scheduled.
But there will still be drinks and nibbles in his honour 😊
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| Alerting: Are You Unsure When to Alert? |
When is a bid alertable?.
ONE: If a call is conventional, it must be alerted (unless it requires an announcement or is self-alerting).
A call is conventional if it conveys a meaning other than willingness to play in the named suit, or high-card strength or length there. However, an agreement as to overall strength does not make a call a convention. Examples might be:
- A change of agreed suit meant as a game try
- 2♣ opening,
- 2NT if playing Unusual NT,
- a transfer after partner's NT bid,
- Jacobi 2NT, and so on.
- Checkback (2♣)or New Minor Forcing (NMF)
TWO: Two classes of natural calls must be alerted (unless they are self-alerting):
(a) There is an agreement by which the call is forcing or non-forcing in a way that the opponents are unlikely to expect.
(b) Its meaning is affected by other agreements, which the opponents are unlikely to expect. For example:
- a jump raise of opener’s one-level bid in an uncontested auction, or
- a bid which may be weak or pre-emptive, or
- a single raise of partner’s suit which may be strong or forcing .
These self-alerting calls carry their own alert and should not be alerted:
• Doubles and Redoubles
• Cue bids of an opponent’s denomination/suit
• All calls at the four-level or higher, except conventional opening bids. For example, 4♣ (Gerber) is not alertable.
• Any 2♣ response to a 1NT opening bid in an uncontested auction (Stayman).
Note that if your partner over calls with 1NT, your 2♣ Stayman becomes alterable!
A player is entitled (at their turn to call) to ask for an explanation, but bear in mind that unnecessary questions may be more helpful to the opponents than to the enquirer’s own side, and may convey unauthorised information thereby limiting partner’s options.
The full ABF Alerting Regulations a can be seen by clicking ABF Alerting Regulations in the menu on the left, anywhere on this item.
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Bas's Bridge principles
cheat sheet
1) Think.
2) Think.
3) Think.
- New hand, new adventure.
- Make a plan, update your plan.
- Partnership game, help partner, hinder opponents.
- Think like Sherlock Holmes, collecting evidence.
- What is important in this hand?
- Look for specific cards, don't try count the deck
- Passive or aggressive defence?
- Am I helping partner or is partner gonna help me
- Declaring in a suit contract ?
- Declaring in NT?
- Count down, not up.
- Invert the problem, what does this action deny?
- Create a mental image of partner's or opponents hand.
- Fail and try again
- Enjoy the challenge
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Bas's Bridge principles
cheat sheet
1) Think.
2) Think.
3) Think. ..........
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| Thank You, Bas Bolt |
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Bas Bolt shared his thoughts on the principles of bridge with us to start the New Financial Year. A coincidence of course, but a welcome one!
We hope to see and hear from you again in a few weeks, Bas.
P.S. That's not an empty seat there - it's mine!
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| They Do Listen To Us 😊 |
 Following on from previous items about the 2022 Results display, BridgeWebs have responded to our representation that it was just too full of cluttering detail.
This is their response:
- The PLAYERS list is collapsed on entry to the RESULTS page (but still available with a click, without having to leave the results page).
- Your player ANALYSIS is collapsed, but readily available to check your statistics for HCP, contracts made and defence.
- If a COMPARE panel is opened, it now has a CLOSE button instead of an ambiguous COLLAPSE button.
- Irrelevant PRINT/COLLAPSE controls have been removed.
So now you can get the results display you want, without all that clutter, plus the ability to really quickly access the players list and your personal statistics, and sort results from good to bad if you wish.
Yes, BridgeWebs really are interested in what we think about their product.
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| Results Display 2022 |
Most 2022 Results displays are pretty much the same as the classic Results displays. Many improvements are seen in other ways, reviewed later in this series.
One clear difference is the easy ability to focus on different elements. For example, here the results are graded from "good" too "not good", making it obvious where priority attention is needed (assuming you are here to review your misses that helped keep you off the medal list!).
How do you get this? Simply by clicking on the V under the % column header on the right.
You can sort the results on any column header. For example by bid if you're looking for that pesky 3NT you made a mess of, or pair number if you keep a hand record by pair number. And to sort the boards back in numerical order? Just click the Board column header.
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Most 2022 Results displays are pretty much the same as the classic Results displays. Many improvements are seen in other ways, reviewed later in this series.
One clear difference is the easy ability to focus on different elements. ..........
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| Want to comment but can't log in? |
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To leave a comment you need to be logged in as a member. If you can't log in, possibly you have changed your email address or password since last log-in. You can fix this.
- Click Members Only in the menu on the left. As you're not logged in, the log-in page will display as above.
- Enter your email address, name or ABF number. If you're not sure which, your ABF number is a sure choice**.
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- You will be asked for your email address. An email will be sent to the email address recorded in our database with a BridgeWebs link to reset your password**.
- You will then be able to access your account (along with other options). It is recommended that you review all of your personal details (e.g. phone number) when you log in.
Once you have an email address and password match with our database, you will be able to leave comments and/or thumbs up/down.
**If your ABF number returns a "Not Found" error message, or your email address is "Not Registered" there's a problem with your database entry; please contact us (Menu: Information -> Contact Us) with your current details.
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| Thank you Gary |
Over the past few months 14 Interesting Hands have been chosen and analysed by Gary Riddell. These have been a valuable contribution and of real interest to our members.
Gary has now decided to pursue other interests, so we have seen the last of these with the 2nd May hand.
Thank you Gary. Your contribution to our club is very much appreciated.
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| Results Any Way You Want |
 And here you have it 😊
After just two clicks, your results can be presented any way you want, almost instantaneously.
- Click on % to rank your results
- Click on Board to restore numerical sequence
- Click on an opponent to see their results
- Click any other V to rank that column
- Expand the overall results if you wish
- Expand the hand ANALYSIS if you wish
- Print your result if you like to keep record
Note that the layout of results panes may vary, depending on your computer, and the available screen space.
Experiment, have fun, and leave any comment you have, including why you prefer the 'Classic' results presentation if that's the case.
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| 2022 Results Too Complicated? Yeah, Nah 😜 |
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Here is the players ranking page when you go to results in the 2022 format. (Players names in order of results are not shown here.)
The most important thing to note here is the little square control to which the green arrow points. This little symbol is the key to managing the results to display exactly what you want to see.
You will see this control in many many places. It is so important that BridgeWebs developers have put it on every results panel, which in this writer's view is overdoing it. Along with other controls we'll come to, it makes it a bit hard to see the wood for all the trees, and there's a lot of good wood to be seen in the 2022 display format. A recommendation has been made to BridgeWebs to hide a lot of these things that are not really necessary, and they're considering that (more development required).
For instance, clicking the green-arrowed control just collapses this whole list of players, so there's nothing to see but the event date and name. You won't want to do that - except maybe to see what happens.
Furthermore the control to which the red arrow points will just hide the page header - BridgeWebs have agreed that has gone too far, and we can expect that to disappear soon.
So why bother with this clutter? We'll get to that in a moment.
You've also noted that little Printer control, which BridgeWebs have put on every results panel; this lets you print the associated panel. You can print the players ranking page here if you really want to, and if you're a tiger for detail you can even print off the header. But be quick, before it disappears.
And just before you switch to the next page, in case you haven't noticed it, the blue arrow points to the cog wheel for some settings for the results display, chiefly whether or not to show players names on the board travellers when we get to those. This is actually the same as the Classic results display.
Now click anywhere on this item to take a look at the first big thing to do, to make the most of your results.
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| What Happened to Friday’s Scoring? |
There has been a significant revision of scoring for Friday 22nd April.
For some reason (unknown and unnoticed) some hand scores were not transferred from the Bridgemates database to the Scorebridge database. There were no error messages ☹️
The scores now shown are from the full set of results. Sorry, Ann and Helen 😔
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| COVID Safe Web Check-in |
Click HERE to open the NSW Covid-Safe Web Check-in form
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| Why did they bother? |
Do you remember when we used paper travellers and thought it enough to take home hand records on paper? And the resistance to introducing tabletop scorers?
Bridgewebs developers spent some time (meaning money and resources) redeveloping the display of results. Why?
Do you think there might just be something in this for you?
Over the next few weeks, a new feature of the 2022 results report will be looked at here. Step by step.
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| Viewing Your Results |
 Club results may be displayed in a new format. You can read all about this by clicking here and selecting item "4.5.8 Results Display 2022 Edition". If you prefer the "Classic" format, there is an option to switch back and forth between the two at the top of the results display. Let us know what you think of the 2022 format by leaving a comment, please.
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| Autumn Teams Campionship |
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Well done, coming from behind in the Autumn Teams championship: John Scrivener, Sarina Garret, Ian Wright and Imogen von Muenchhausen.
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| Your opinion, please… |
After a bid out of turn by East, South being the next player, said that she wanted to accept the bid (as is her right) and that she did not want to call the director.
This was overheard by a Club Director and it was pointed out that under Law 9B , that the "Director should be summoned", the response was: "I have played State Bridge for many years, and if I had called the Director I would have been told 'Stop wasting my time and get on with it' ".
What do you think? Please tell us what you think by leaving a comment 😊
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After a bid out of turn by East, South being the next player, said that she wanted to accept the bid (as is her right) and that she did not want to call the director. ..........
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| Experimental hand |
Show Detail |
You are South.
North deals. Your 2♠* is Fourth Suit Forcing (to game?)
What would you bid now? Pass? 3♥? 3♠? 3NT? 4♣? 4♦? Something else?
Leave your choice as a comment. On (...date...) we'll add a commentary and compare the options.
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| Website Update |
The opinion survey of our website has now closed. Thank you to all those who responded. In general, the results showed:
- Over 73% positive response to a periodic bridge hand review and just 6.7% had no interest.
- Between 53% and 67% interest in being able to make comments, provision for forum discussion, a "Directors Corner" and Q&A spot.
- Less than half were interested in 👍/👎, or more photos on the website.
Given these opinions, a "Interesting Hands" feature has been added, as you can see from the news spot on the right. This item is planned to be updated about once a week with a new hand either from our club or another event when there is a particular point to be made, and Gary Riddell has kindly agreed to put together some very useful and helpful deal analysis.
It is hoped that the Australian Bridge Director Association will allow the use of items in the Dear Director section of the ABDA Bulletin. In addition to some local director obsrvations, this would provide an interesting base for member discussion and comment; expect this in the New Year.
Together with the 2022 BridgeWebs update (we're running the test version) we can look forward to a website that better meets your needs. Hopefully you are finding the expanded Results presentation quicker, more informative and more flexible that the 'Classic' version. Note that whichever version you select will be presented on next opening. If you're still using the Classic version, do make a little time to explore the 2022 version.
Finally, please do add a comment wherever you think there could be more information, an update, or simply like or dislike (with or without explanation).
Happy bridging and best wishes for Christmas 🎄
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