[Erkson]

It would be good to be able to connect at the same time to several vugraphs (open and closed rooms of a match for instance, or several matches).

Why is it not possible ?
My guess is that the multiconnection facility would make possible to cheat while playing bridge on BOL ?

If so, wouldn't it be possible to have two independent softwares : one for playing bridge and another for vugraph shows, instead of this combined one?

Erkson

[inquiry]

Work around....

Jump onto one table and find one of your friends... tell him or her that you will go to the other table, and you guys send messages back and forth about what is happening on each hand. This is not exactlty the same as watching the action at both tables, but it allows you to share thoughts with each other about what is going on, etc. I use this strategy a fair amount of time and would share what is going on at the table I am watching with you if you like.

Ben

[fred]

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It would be good to be able to connect at the same time to several vugraphs (open and closed rooms of a match for instance, or several matches).

Why is it not possible ?
My guess is that the multiconnection facility would make possible to cheat while playing bridge on BOL ?

If so, wouldn't it be possible to have two independent softwares : one for playing bridge and another for vugraph shows, instead of this combined one?

Erkson

It is *possible* to run multiple copies of BBO and log
in multiple times simultaneously from the same PC.

For the first year of so of BBO we allowed this, but
now only yellows (or people who can convince us that
they have a very good reason to need this ability, like
some teachers) are allowed to do this.

You are correct about the reason: there are a lot of
easy ways to cheat (such as kibitzing yourself) when
multiple logins from one PC are allowed. There was a
time when this sort of thing became a serious problem
for us and that is why we changed our policy in this area.

We are not going to change it back.

Having a separate application for vugraph might be
nice, but I am afraid it is not going to happen. There
are a few good reasons for this:

1) There are many advantages to having so much
functionality in a single application.

2) Creating and maintaining a seperate application
that would like be used by a very small number of
people is not a good use of our resources.

3) We don't want to do this.

Please keep in mind that we are a very small company
with a limited programming staff and that there are
many things we would like to do to improve BBO.

The design decisions we make will be based primarily
on 3 factors:

1) We will do things that we think will benefit as many
of our members as possible.

2) We will do things that we think are fun for us.

3) We will do things that will eventually lead to generation
of renenue from BBO.

Don't think that 3) means that we are planning on starting
to charge for BBO membership, tournament play, the ability
to watch vugraph, or anything else.

BBO will remain free for sure, but we do have some plans
whereby we (and other people like teachers and authors)
will (hopefully) be able to make money through the site.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[Erkson]

Hi, Ben !
You wrote :

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I use this strategy a fair amount of time and would share what is going on at the table I am watching with you if you like.

Thank you for the nice idea.
My purpose was less to get real time information about what is going on in the other room than to get both matches vugraphs saved on my hard disk.
Let me tell you what happened to me this morning :
I watched the 20 boards of Hong Kong - Thailand, then I went and watched England - Poland last board. Afterwards what did I find on my hard disk ?
The complete England - Poland vugraph and nothing of the HK match !
I suppose that my first file was overwritten and I should have made a copy of it -if it ever was stored on my hard disk- before going to the other match. I don't know and it is not very important. I will get the first match file from somewhere.

Hi, Fred !
I understand perfectly your reasons, and I deeply wish you get the success that you deserve for you and yours.

Erkson.

[nikos59]

Erkson said:

<<Afterwards what did I find on my hard disk ?
The complete England - Poland vugraph and nothing of the HK match !
I suppose that my first file was overwritten and I should have made a copy of it -if it ever was stored on my hard disk- before going to the other match. I don't know and it is not very important. I will get the first match file from somewhere.>>

Your guess is correct -the files have the same name, so the newer one is overwriting the older.
I usually rename one file, adding something like, say, Eng-Pol, so
there is no overwriting.

[Erkson]

Many thanks for the info, Nikos.

By the way, I am looking for Hong Kong - Thailand vugraph

Erkson