[1eyedjack]

I hope some of the other NCBOs are going to get onto the bandwagon. Unfortunately it looks as though the EBU have got into bed with Bridge Player Live. Hope they get out of bed again.

This looks like an appropriate time for the software gurus to rethink the design of the convention card that is bundled with the BBO client. I have never been happy with it (but you will never please everyone, I know). It seems to me that there are a load of (free) CC generator programs in the public domain, covering most of the countries in the world. How difficult would it be to snatch some of these without reinventing the wheel, so that they can be "loaded" by players on BBO?

[hrothgar]

1eyedjack, on May 30 2004, 01:16 PM, said:

This looks like an appropriate time for the software gurus to rethink the design of the convention card that is bundled with the BBO client.  I have never been happy with it (but you will never please everyone, I know).  It seems to me that there are a load of (free) CC generator programs in the public domain, covering most of the countries in the world.  How difficult would it be to snatch some of these without reinventing the wheel, so that they can be "loaded" by players on BBO?

On the whole convention card front:

I'm still a strong believer that hypertext convention cards offer the bext mechanism to disclose methods to the opponents. I've long advocated that the BBO should use a web browser as the convention card viewer.

Uday and I were shooting the bull on this topic and he pointed out another significant advantage with using a browser based convention card viewer. Most convention card editors have the option to save data as .JPG files for printing. I turn, these files could be displayed using an embedded web browser.

In many ways, this offers the best of both worlds:

(1) BBO gets to leverage a wide variety of third party Convention Card editors.
(2) NCBOs get to specify any format CC that they prefer
(3) The "adventurous" get to customize their own hypertext convention cards.

From my perspective, the only significant drawbacks are

(1) Some coding would be required, however, with luck this can be done as part of the client re-write.
(2) There is a potential for problem when different organizations prefer different Convention Card formats.

[Rain]

Can we get masterpoints for these type of events?

Someone signed up for this event, and was prompted to give ACBL #. She closed the screen at that time. Now if she wants to give her number again, what should she do?


Thanks


Rain

[flytoox]

Does this mean anybody from anywhere in the world can get ACBL master points without playing in us?

[uday]

Each time one registers for an ACBL event, one is prompted to enter an ACBL number ( the system remembers the last one entered). Not ideal, maybe i'll stop asking after 3 tries if i already have something.

Anyone from anywhere can get ACBL points, but i believe that you have to become an ACBL member for the points to be recorded. Not that that is a bad thing in itself.

You can learn more about the ACBL at http://www.acbl.org/

[DrTodd13]

Couldn't any country's sponsoring body run tourneys on BBO and offer their versions of masterpoints? Moreover, why can't there be a sponsoring body that doesn't serve a country but instead serves the Internet? We could get rid of this GCC menace.

[willow23]

Very nice...I look foward to participating.....I was always tempted to purchase $BBO ...now I do not have a choice...I like the opportunity of evaluating myself on a wide scale...BBo ..now ACBL has provided such a wonderful opportunity...I think I speak on behalf of all...when I say that it is our pleasure to give back to BBO for all the effort that they have put into the software...I hope that a very large chunk of that $1.00 goes to BBO.. ...Good looking out...I always seem to wonder what will happen next on this site...KEEP IT UP>>>FEELS LIKE HOME TO ME>>>..now the problem seems to be getting a partner that knows me and convention..and if the time of those tourneys fit into my schedule. ..I hope all is well there...THX BBO

[darla]

Would like to see longer touneys as well. Where and how do we register our ACBL membership number so we will be credited with points earned? Thanks.

[uday]

For now, you are prompted for the acbl number upon registration. This is repeated each time you register, with the default being what you entered the last time. We'll implement something better when we figure out what that is

Yes, any organization can use the tourney facility to issue points. The code is set up to prompt users for the organization id ( here, the acbl id) and compute/track points for each tourney ( we only know about acbl and figb/italian points, but i will happily add new code to compute points for new organizations)