[inquiry]

The beginner/intermediate only tournments are going to make a glorious return. As this thread points out, the last time this was tried 40% of the participants were "expert" or "advanced" players. Any beginner or intermediate player who wants to play against such opposition can simply join any tournment in the BBO.

The goal of the beginner/intermediate tournment was to hold an event where players of similiar abilities can compete on a level playing field, and to provide a friendly environment to edge new players into tournment play.

With the introduction of BBO version 3.4.11 it is now possible to limit play to members of one of the private clubs found on the BBO. So Hallway has started a beginner/intermediate "private" club. It is private only in the sense that it will exclude advanced, expert, and world class players. The clubs serves a variety of purposes, one is to allow easy limiting of the players who enter a beginner tourney's. But others is a place within the BBO for beginners, novices, and others to go to play and practice with each other without having to put up with the jeers and attitude that sometimes show up in main club room. It is also to provide a community so these players can learn together and from each other.

The members of this club will be invited to participate in this forum with question and the like, and interesting hands will be placed here. Teaching tables will occassionally be set up, with advanced notice here, to cover common conventions and the like.

IF you are interested in sharing Hallway's vision of a place within the BBO environment where novices, beginners, and intermediates can gather, or in playing in tournments without having to face a ton of gold star players, please go and sign up for Hallway's private beginner/intermediate club.

Ben

[Dawn]

The Fifth Chair Foundation would be glad to sponsor regularly scheduled tournaments on BBO for beginning, novice and intermediate- players if we can find some volunteer assistants.

Is there anybody out there, with tournament hosting experience, who would be willing to help?

We already sponsor Mentor/novice tournaments on another bridge service so we've got some experience in this arena! Let me know if you can help out! - dawn

[csdenmark]

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