[inquiry]

REC Software Inc., makers of the BridgeBrowser software, is going to run a free online tourney tonight at 7:30 PM Pacific time (that 10:30 PM New York time) on BBO. The pair winning the tournement will recieve one week free access to over 100 million hands of bridge that using Bridgebrowser online version.

Link to info about bridgebrowser online/

Rec Software held a few of these tourneys in the past, and plans to hold them more regularily now, so look for them in the future. If these free tourneys are sucessful, and people enjoy competiting for something of value like access to bridgebrowser, future tourneys may offer longer free access periods extending for a month, or even much longer.

Ben

[inquiry]

The Win BridgeBrowser for a week tourney went off last night well. It was 17 tables and the winners, ernes and titel will each recieve on week of access to the online bridgebrowser database.

There is another free tourney Friday night at 10:30 PM EST time, with the same prize to the winners (each section I believe, but check the conditions of contest).

If you are curious about bridgebrowser, you owe it to yourself to try to play in one of these free tourneys so you can try the browser out for free if you win.

Ben

[Walddk]

inquiry, on Feb 18 2005, 01:37 AM, said:

There is another free tourney Friday night at 10:30 PM EST time

For members who live outside the United States, (some of) the times are:

Paris: 04.30 Saturday morning.

London: 03:30 Saturday morning.

Sydney: 2:30 pm Saturday.

[sfbp]

Walddk, on Feb 18 2005, 02:51 AM, said:

inquiry, on Feb 18 2005, 01:37 AM, said:

There is another free tourney Friday night at 10:30 PM EST time

For members who live outside the United States, (some of) the times are:

Paris: 04.30 Saturday morning.

London: 03:30 Saturday morning.

Sydney: 2:30 pm Saturday.

Hi Roland, good to hear from you

If you look on the website

BRBR Online

and CoC you will see that I didn't pick this time on purpose - it just happens to be a good slot where there aren't too many other tourneys.

Also access from Europe and Sydney not that quick (it's a VERY long way) to my database server, so it's probably best to focus on US and Canadian users for now.

In time, I am sure someone will help us to offer these competitions at other times. For now, let's get started.

For the record, our winners last night were from Israel. 'Nuff said?

Thanks for your interest in BRidgeBRowser

Stephen

[Walddk]

sfbp, on Feb 18 2005, 12:49 PM, said:

you will see that I didn't pick this time on purpose - it just happens to be a good slot where there aren't too many other tourneys.

I think you missed my point. I was merely implying that I think it would be a good idea to have the times in more than EST and PST. I mean, for us who naively believe that there is a world outside the US

Roland

[sfbp]

Walddk, on Feb 18 2005, 03:55 PM, said:

sfbp, on Feb 18 2005, 12:49 PM, said:

you will see that I didn't pick this time on purpose - it just happens to be a good slot where there aren't too many other tourneys.

I think you missed my point. I was merely implying that I think it would be a good idea to have the times in more than EST and PST. I mean, for us who naively believe that there is a world outside the US

Roland

My point exactly. If they are at 4 am why would anyone want to know? Just as I don't particularly need to be informed about events at noon in Denmark or the UK? (yes I am English and I know exactly what time zone it is in both places).

BTW I really appreciate your efforts in putting a tourney (the 2/1 tourneys) at times that we here can attend. It's just not practicable for these BRBR tourneys, at the moment, not least because I needed an uncrowded slot.

Stephen