[LionHeart1]

I was TD in a tourney and I was asked to adjust the result of an unfinished but almost completed hand. As I reviewed it, I saw that the deal had been interrupted at the bidding phase. But the players of the deal asserted that they had been at the tenth or eleventh trick and the result was unambiguous. There were two other TDs in the tourney and they saw the same as me, the players had not finished the bidding, so we couldnot adjust the result. After finishing the tournament I wanted to send the complaining player an e-mail in order to show him the state of the deal at the point of the break-off and I recalled the deal in the hand viewer. To my greatest surprise I experineced that the player had had right, the deal had been played almost to the end. I think, it is very embarrassing if the TD don't see the current state of a deal during the tourney, only after finishing it.

Regards
Zoltán (LionHeart1 on BBO)

[fred]

Can you please provide me with a (Handviewer) link to the deal in question? You can either post it here or send it by e-mail: to fred@bridgebase.com

It sounds like there was a character in an alert-explanation that caused some aspect of our software to get confused. Once I can see the deal it should be easy for me to identify (and hopefully fix) this problem.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[LionHeart1]

Hi Fred, this is the deal in question:
http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer...3685-1285092391
The 1NT opening was alerted and the play was broken off after this bid when the event occured.
Best regards
Zoltán

[fred]

Thanks Zoltan.

I assume you were using the web-client when you reviewed the deal in question (and saw the auction getting cut off)?

Can you please describe the steps you took to review the deal?

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[LionHeart1]

Hi Fred,
no, I used the old downloaded Windows-version. But you are right, the cause of the error was a bad character in the explanation field, the player typed his declaration with caps-on and the declaration was "!#_!%" instead of "13-15".
Zoltán

[Oof Arted]

I have just looked at the link and it appears that the Auction has been completed then the play ceased at trick 9 with Delarer able to take the remaining tricks for 12

[fred]

LionHeart1, on Sep 26 2010, 08:15 PM, said:

Hi Fred,
no, I used the old downloaded Windows-version. But you are right, the cause of the error was a bad character in the explanation field, the player typed his declaration with caps-on and the declaration was "!#_!%" instead of "13-15".
Zoltán

I will investigate further, but if it turns out that this is a bug in the Windows client, then it is probably not realistic for you to expect it to be fixed in the foreseeable future. Our current position is that we are not planning on updating the Windows client unless some bugs surface that have a major impact on a lot of users (and this is only likely to happen as a consequence of things like the release of a new version of Windows).

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com