[shyams]

My club duplicate sessions are 24 or 26 boards. Boards in play are Law 2 compliant and sequential from 1 to 26 etc... Now comes the hypothetical bit

A. Tomorrow's session at the club will be 24 boards long. What's different is the boards in play will be #1 thru #12; then #17 thru #28.
In other words, boards # 13 (N dealer, Both Vul), #14 (E dealer, None Vul), #15 (S dealer, NS Vul), #16 (W dealer, EW Vul) will not be in play at all
- Is such a tournament legal?
- Does it violate any EBU rules making the session ineligible for master points, rankings etc?

B. Same hypothetical situation as above -- this time, we are playing 26/27 boards. The choice is #1 thru #13 (or #14 if we play 27 boards); then #16 thru #29
- Is this any different from Situation A. above in terms of legality, EBU eligibility etc

Thank you for your advice and opinions

[bluejak]

Perfectly legal. It is difficult to quote a Law because really it is a question that there is no Law that says otherwise.

When I ran my own club I often used boards 27 to 32 to spread the wear and tear.

[pran]

bluejak, on Jul 22 2010, 01:18 PM, said:

Perfectly legal. It is difficult to quote a Law because really it is a question that there is no Law that says otherwise.

When I ran my own club I often used boards 27 to 32 to spread the wear and tear.

Agreed.

I have for years run a teams event with two flights in parallell, one playing 28 boards and the other playing 24 boards, these 24 boards being common to both flights.

The higher flight play boards numbered from 3 to 30, the lower flight play the same boards excluding boards 3, 4, 29 and 30. Half-match switch between boards 16 and 17 for both flights.

Nobody (not even the scoring program) has any problem with that.