[cask31]

I am a "bridge coach" at a local middle school. The students are taught by ACBL funding and use the Audrey Grant series. Can there be an area on BBO where the robots use that bidding system? It would be such a useful teaching tool.

[ggwhiz]

I'm gearing up to start on-going simultaneous pairs tournaments for the little ones.

Only 6 boards long with 3-4 weeks to play the hands and with a mini-bridge division.

Individual pair summaries and frequency charts will be available for post-mortem lessons, pairs of 3 or 4 players allowed etc. and if they can't get all 6 hands played, they just get 50% scores for the rest.

My kids can barely follow suit but they don't know that and the more the merrier. Our school computer labs have BBO blocked but we eventually hope to change that and if we can organize in numbers, Uday has considered offering free robots for them.

ggwhiz@rogers.com

[barmar]

While I can see the value of this, I think it's unlikely we can do it. The person primarily responsible for GIB's bidding rules is kept extremely busy just fixing the bugs in the existing rules. Designing a whole new set of bidding rules would be an enormous project. While there's certainly lots of overlap between the existing system and Audrey's system, figuring out which rules to keep and which need to be removed or revised would be tremendously difficult. GIB's bidding database has 4,000 rules, and there are lots of interdependencies.