Thursday, March 11

Schedule Premier KO All flights

IMP Pairs All flights

North American Pairs All flights

Thursday, March 11 Qualifying sessions

Friday, March 12 Final sessions

Saturday, March 13Open: Rds. of 64 & 32

Limited: Group play

Sunday, March 14 Rounds of 16 & 8

Thursday, March 18 Qualifying sessions Premier Pairs All flightsFriday, March 19 Final sessions

Saturday, March 20 Semifinals Qualifying sessions

Sunday, March 21 Finals Final sessions

Welcome to the Spring NAOBCWe are pleased that you have joined us for the ACBL’s third North American Online Bridge Championships. The first two such contests were popular and greatly enjoyed by those who played in them. Like last time, we are offering three flights of both knockout and pair events. We have also expanded to include an IMP pairs event, also with three flights. We hope that our members will continue to find these tournaments a source of education and fun.

Please check out the online Daily Bulletins for updates on the events, tips on how to upload your convention card and use other features of BBO, and guidance from the ACBL National Recorder on rules for ethical play online.

We invite you to give us your feedback on your experience so that we can make these events even more successful in the future.

Please play nice, play fair and have fun.

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About the Baldwin North American Pairs, Flight AThe Baldwin North American Pairs Flight A is a

grassroots event that begins in the summer at the local club level — in this case, in 2019. Qualifiers at the club level advance to unit competition and those qualifiers advanced to district finals. Three pairs from each district – more, depending upon attendance – qualify for the North American final.

Winners are honored by the Baldwin Memorial Trophy and also receive certificates of recognition.

The trophy is named for Col. Russell J. Baldwin (1889–1969), U.S. Army officer and expert on tournament procedure who was ACBL Honorary Member of the Year in 1943.

Baldwin was active as an organizer from the earliest days of contract bridge. He became a director of the American Bridge League and its treasurer shortly after its founding in 1927. He was a member of the ACBL Laws Commission and primarily responsible for the first Duplicate Code issued in 1935.

Baldwin was active as a tournament director from 1927 until 1941. After service in World War II, he was ACBL business manager from 1946 until 1951.

He was recalled to military serve at the outbreak of the Korean War and retired from the U.S. Army in 1957. He rejoined ACBL in 1958 and was in charge of tournament scheduling until his retirement in 1963.

Previous winners:1979 Arthur Moore, Eric Robinson1980 Bob Feller, Jeffrey Hall1981 Helen Blakey, Robert Blakey1982 Bill Nuttig, Ivan Scope1983 John Griscom, Jim Felts1984 Steve Sion, Harold Stengel1985 Peter Boyd, Steve Robinson1986 Drew Cannell, G. Sekhar1987 Jan Janitschke, Dick Reed1988 Jan Martel, Chip Martel1989 David Caslan, Dennis Clerkin1990 Sidney Lazard, Jack LaNoue1991 Mark Stein, Boris Baran

1992 Jim Krekorian, Rick Zucker1993 James Griffin, Kenneth Schutze1994 James Griffin, Kenneth Schutze1995 David Berkowitz, Lisa Berkowitz1996 Marshall Tuly, James Cunningham1997 Aidan Ballantyne, Gordon McOrmond1998 Ron Sukoneck, Bill Cole1999 James Griffin, Kenneth Schutze2000 Patty Tucker, Kevin Collins2001 Frank Merblum, Doug Doub2002 JoAnna Stansby, Lew Stansby2003 Steve Landen, Michael Zerbini2004 Henry Lortz, Wayne Ohlrich2005 David Yang, Nikolay Demirev2006 Gordon Campbell, Piotr Klimowicz2007 Dave Abelow, Dick Wegman2008 Xiadong Shi, David Yang2009 Jim Krekorian, John Rengstorff2010 Doug Doub, Frank Merblum2011 Shane Blanchard, Joe Grue2012 Jordan Cohen, Barry Senensky2013 Kevin Dwyer, Gavin Wolpert 2014 Bryan Howard, Terry Spector2015 Shome Mukherjee, Mark Aquino2016 Peter Boyd, Steve Robinson2017 Peter Boyd, Steve Robinson2018 Adam Grossack, Zach Grossack2019 Jeff Edelstein, Matthew Weingarten

Winners of the 2019 North American Pairs, Flight A: Matthew Weingarten and Jeff Edelstein, District 9.

Russell Baldwin

2019 Winners Matthew Weingarten – Jeff EdelsteinDistrict 1 1 Scott Macdougall – Scott Rappard 2 David Willis – Jeffrey Blond 3 Jonathan Shute – Anne Posch 4 Marc Lachapelle – Xavier CombeyDistrict 2 1 Keith Heckley – Dwight Bender 2 Bob Todd – Douglas Fisher 3 William Treble – Robert KuzDistrict 3 1 Judy Rothstein – John Hogan Jr. 2 Fredric Weiner – Arnold Kohn 3 Robert Coyne – Robert RoseDistrict 4 1 Arthur Korth – Andy Kaufman 2 Martin de Bruin – David Hoffner 3 Jay Apfelbaum – Daniel BoyeDistrict 5 1 Robert Zimmerman – Philip Goulding 2 Jan Assini – Frank Cymerman 3 Bernie Greenspan – Craig BiddleDistrict 6 1 Sven Pride – David Genne 2 Gil Cohen – Marty Nelson 3 Leo Lasota – Dave RudermanDistrict 7 1 Boyce Robbins – Richard Maybin 2 James Gentry Jr. – Varghese George 3 Chris Moll – Jon Rice 4 Hugh Brown Jr. – Happoldt NeufferDistrict 8 1 Tom Kniest – Jonathan Weinstein 2 C. Lee Hastings – Clay Cuthbertson 3 Rod Beery – Richard HaackeDistrict 9 1 Stephen Sanborn – Kerri Sandorn 2 David Berkowitz – Stan Tulin 3 Janice Seamon-Molson – Bruce LangDistrict 10 1 David Birnbaum – Arthur Lowen 2 Paul Maunafo – Richard Oshlag 3 Jim Munday – Larry SealyDistrict 11 1 Gregory Potts – Charles Kopp 2 Jerry Clerkin – John Hinton 3 Russell Shoup – Marc LowDistrict 12 1 Jonathan Fleischmann – Kurt Dasher 2 Owen Lien – Julie Arbit 3 Robert Houtrow – Lowell Seyburn

District 13 1 George Jacobs – Claude Vogel 2 Daiva Vitukynaite – Gediminas Poska 3 Stephen McConnell – Fawad HakimDistrict 14 1 John Koch – Terry Beckman 2 Bob Balderson Jr. – Cynthia Balderson 3 Vern Swing – Keith ConnollyDistrict 15 1 Victoria Muir – William Muir 2 Paul Chan – Lily Chan 3 Don Stack – Donald BrookerDistrict 16 1 Chris Compton – Venkatrao Koneru 2 Thomas Peters – Ira Hessel 3 Carolyne Fox – James BreihanDistrict 17 1 Leon Lowe – Ben Blacik 2 Bill Parks – Jerry Gaer 3 Kenneth Titow – Markland JonesDistrict 18 1 Ramona Doll – Lon Doll 2 James Flesher – Bill AeschbacherDistrict 19 1 Sidney Yang – James Wu 2 Jenni Carmichael – Tom Carmichael 3 Kim Eng – Jeffrey FordDistrict 20 1 David Brower – Jeff McKee 2 Charlene Martindale – Ian Martindale 3 Amy Casanova – Paul WrigleyDistrict 21 1 Robert Munson – Bruce Tuttle 2 Mukund Thapa – Richard Spitalnick 3 Ron Karr – Daniel RaiderDistrict 22 1 Ellis Feigenbaum – Marjorie Michelin 2 Mark Itabashi – Weishu Wu 3 Wafik Abdou – Robert GiragosianDistrict 23 1-2 James Perkins – Jonathan Holmes 1-2 Peter Knee – Bill Schreiber 3 John Jones – Jeffrey GoldsmithDistrict 24 1 Andrew Rosenthal – Aaron Silverstein 2 Jeffrey Rothstein – Russell Samuel 3 Robert Kuhnreich – Elliot SternlichtDistrict 25 1 John Hrones Jr. – Robert Virgile 2 Dean Panagopoulos – Stephen Gladyszak 3 Sheila Gabay – Pat McDevitt

2021 NAP Flight A Qualifiers

Golder NAP Flight B begins play todayCompetition begins today in the Golder North

American Pairs, Flight B – a grassroots event limited to players with 0–2500 masterpoints.

The first stage is conducted at the local club level and qualifiers advance to unit competition. Those qualifiers then advance to the district finals where three pairs – more, depending upon attendance – qualify for the North American final.

Winners are honored by the Golder Cup and will also receive a certificate of recognition.

The trophy is presented in memory of Benjamin M. Golder (1894–1946) of Philadelphia, who died the day before the close of his term as 1946 ACBL president. He was named ACBL Honorary Member of the Year for 1947.

Previous winners:1992 Peter Worley, Kevin Young1993 Robert Sewell, Paul Janicki1994 Brendan Dempsey, Ian Crowe1995 Jay Levy, William Rushmore1996 Robert Johnson, David Rosenstein1997 Bill Drewett, Kirk Twiss1998 Adam Beneschan, Brian Gilbert1999 Andy Kaufman, Greg Burch2000 Hal Hindman, Mark Chen2001 Walter Lee, Jonathan Weinstein2002 Wieslaw Kalita, Marian Krasowski2003 Jordan Chodorow, Harvey Katz

2004 Jim Alison, Dayn Beam2005 Pete Whipple, Jamie Radcliffe2006 Fletcher Thompson, Bruce Todd2007 Mark Golding, Rob Kitchen2008 Sidney Kanter, Ron Nelken2009 Robert McCaw, Lewis Gamerman2010 Fred Schenker, Dian Petrov2011 Roger Webb, Philippe Galaski2012 Joseph Rice, Bjorgvin Kristinsson2013 Daniel Jackson, Bill McCarty2014 Miroslav Kovacevic, Aleksandar Vujic2015 Richard Jeng, Andrew Jeng2016 Ryan Schultz, A.J. Stephani2017 Murat Veysoglu, Kevin Lane2018 Jeff Dater, Scott Nason2019 Yin Yichen, Chang Liu

Golder North American Flight B champs from last year: Chang Liu and Yin Yichen, District 25.

Benjamin Golder

District 1 1 Matthew Morse – Howard Huynh 2 Bala Srinivasan – A.K. Misra 3 Andrew Endendijk – Marylyn Rudolph 4 J. Francois-Guillemette – Jean BellemarreDistrict 2 1 Peter Tuttle – Ken Bowlby 2 Mike Peng – Robert Griffiths 3 Claude King – Peter Giannandrea 4 Dianne Aves – Moira Hollingsworth

District 3 1 Piotr Olszewski – Jacek Leznicki 2 Ke Zhao – Robert Brolin 3 Howard Booth – Wendy Lee 4 Hans Neuteboom – Pat GuadagnoDistrict 4 1 Wayne Rosenberger – Andrew Rosenberger 2 Lawrence Kidder – Laura Krauss 3 Mike Kohler – Guinevere Ritter 4 Tom Henson – Carole McCallum

2021 NAP Flight B Qualifiers

District 5 1 Jack Hawthorne – Randy Pearson 2 John Doyal – Robert Flynn 3 Daniel Solow – Arthur Heuer 4 James Fox – Alan LeaverDistrict 6 1 Jonathan Siegel – Malcolm Stewart 2 Rick Bingham – Ryan Conners 3 Michael Kelley – Craig Huneke 4 Michael Berard – Art McCannDistrict 7 1 John Rosson Jr. – Rick Whitehead 2 John Clark – Rodney Severson 3 Donna Sanders – Ned Sanders 4 Richard Shipp – Arnold CohenDistrict 8 1 Michael Heins – Thomas Shedlock 2 Larry Richardson – Charles Zalar 3 Irene Wen – Marsha Woodbury 4 Gary Dell – Peter AshbrookDistrict 9 1 Aldo Cardia – Janice Madsen 2 Theodore Catino – Julie Jawor 3 Lee Weinberger – Carol Vogt 4 Pieter Vanbennekon – Christine MatusDistrict 10 1 Roy Martin – Guy Martin 2 Nancy Ford – Elizabeth Bryan 3 Larry Jackson – Daniel Lusting 4 Chris Sloan – Phillip VestDistrict 11 1 Judy Ruehl – Albert Beaupre 2 Charles Seelbach – Blaine Mullins 3 Dennis Schultz – Larry Newman 4 Steven Forsythe – Sandra ForsytheDistrict 12 1 Henry Zhang – Yanping Zhang 2 George Roach – Christopher Gennick 3 Song Lin – Tai Chan 4 Xingyu Zhang – Ching-Po WangDistrict 13 1 Kevin Choi – Cory Perkers 2 James Abbott – Ryan Daniels 3 John Wallbaum – Eric Neumann 4 Donald Joseph – Charles AlexanderDistrict 14 1 Debra Tvrdik – Lynda Peterson 2 Gerald Burdeski – Mark Sinner 3 Del Swanson – Gene Brandl 4 Mary Wescott – Kathy Lamere

District 15 1 Krishna Saha – Rajeev Bansel 2 Grant Sutton – Sitaraman Sathiamoorthy 3 Jim Goza – Kay Bickham 4 Becky Lowe – J.K. Sanders District 16 1 Pawel Hanus – Ari Sippola 2 James Zhan – Lunhui Lin 3 Robert Reichek – Herbert Kalman 4 Mark Rosen – Daniel BakerDistrict 17 1 Lakin Hines – Jim Wart 2 Bradley Leach – Tim Tilton 3-4 Paul Perkowski – Edward Yosses 3-4 Eva Johnson – Kim CaleyDistrict 18 1 Gordon Bell – Barry MactaggartDistrict 19 1 Paul Conroy – David Baer 2 John Uchida – Bradley Rind 3 John Lai – Morris Chen 4 Stuart Carr – Cathy MillerDistrict 20 1 Kevin Marnell – Ben Bomber 2 Edwin Parker – Laura McKinney 3 Lawrence Levy – Jean Johansson 4 Greg Fowler – Ron RootDistrict 21 1 Qucheng Gong – William Zhu 2 Dan Wong – Ameen Paul 3 Xin Ge – Sarah Chen 4 Jim Liu – Bo XiaoDistrict 22 1 Martha Woodworth – Ying Lin Gu 2 Blake Schwartzbach – Shailesh Gupta 3 Steve Hirsch – Gregory Thorpe 4 Harvey Jaffe – Marc FranklinDistrict 23 1 Ernest Wong – Frank Shih 2 Calvin Waller – Stanley Greengard 3 Robert Johann – Ross Bengel 4 Samatha Macdouglas – Susan Morse-LebowDistrict 24 1 Robert Forster – Stefano Merlo 2 Christopher Rivera – Frank Dinoff 3 Michael Gecht – Gerald Pinsker 4 David Yoon – David LibchaberDistrict 25 1 Meiyan Duan – Yaning Zhou 2 Trevor Reeves – Felix Springer 3 Leo Zelevinsky – Jay Tang 4 Daniel Jablonski – R.A. Muggia

2021 NAP Flight B Qualifiers

NAP C pairs compete for President’s CupPlayers in the North American Pairs Flight C, a

grassroots event limited to non-Life Masters who have less than 500 masterpoints, will begin competition today for the President’s Cup.

The trophy was presented in 1942 by Morgan Howard, ACBL president that year. The trophy previously honored the winners of the President’s Pairs event, held at the Summer NABC.

The competition began in summer 2019 at the local club level and qualifiers then advanced to unit competition. Those qualifiers advanced to the district finals and three pairs from each district – more, depending upon attendance – qualified for the North American final, postponed from 2020.

Previous winners:1987 1-2. David Deaderick, Bill Thomas

1-2. Leo Austern, Bernard Pollack 1988 Brad Moss, Aaron Silverstein 1989 Jeffrey Brown, Warren King1990 Moske Harel, Philip Leung1991 Eric Greco, Philip Greco1992 Gail Joelson, Alan Kasner1993 Everett Boyer, Mark Micheli1994 Weizhong Bao, Jingdong Guo1995 Edward Lee, Brett Roby1996 Ruoyu Fan, Yue Zuo1997 Michael Corker, Thomas Franklin1998 Tien-Chun Yang, Fang Wu1999 James Gunn, Harry Shaffer2000 Meredith Beck, John Johnson2001 Hailong Ao, Jian-Jian Wang

2002 Jacek Leznicki, Jerry Owczarek2003 John Christensen, Robert Wissman2004 Ryan Connors, Daniel Wilderman2005 Jiang Chen, Nongyu Li2006 Stanislaw Kolesnik, Vladimir Reznik2007 Jon King, Dayou Zhou2008 Dmitri Bourlikov , Abraham Pallas2009 Michael Bodell, Elenalani Lam 2010 Vladimir Oudalov, Stanley Weiss2011 Rajeev Bansal, Michael Hughes2012 Chase Bonnette, Jeffrey Tsang2013 Julie Arbit, Jordan Kaye2014 Donald Richards, Sharlene Tyler2015 Blake Schwartzbach, Adam Gann2016 Benjamin Kompa, Robert Thorstad2017 Yangping Zhang, Henry Zhang2018 Henry Zhang, Yanping Zhang2019 Sheila Cesarano, Terry Jonas

Sheila Cesarano and Terry Jonas from District 9 won the North American Pairs, Flight C.

2021 NAP Flight C QualifiersDistrict 1 1 Michael Hogan – Cel Dicks 2 Yunferg Shao – Yongiun Lu 3 Darlene Fraser – David Fraser 4 Mark Lacroix – Suzanne MauriceDistrict 2 1 Peter Zhao – Kevin Xiong 2 Wu Sun – Yale Zhong 3 Candice Huang – Shelia Xu 4 Asit Nundy – David Bodnaryk

District 3 1 Sean Casey – Jason Tokuda 2 Debbie Russell – Liam Robb -O’Hagan 3 Lawrence Gordon – Steven Siegel 4 Robert Risholm – Nikos PanayotatosDistrict 4 1 Frank Feng – Michael Xiong 2 Benjamin Eckerson – Michael Mendelson 3 Michael Haas – Brandon Fong 4 Billie O’Donnell – June Dutch

2021 NAP Flight C QualifiersDistrict 5 1 Edward Morgan – Lawrence Abate 2 Myrtle Muntz – Susie Ash 3 James Lauf – David Niedfeldt 4 Richard Kotler – Nicholas RescherDistrict 6 1 Barbara Daveney – Alexander Stille 2 Brian Lamprecht – Joseph Discenza 3 Thomas McGlynn – Janet McGlynn 4 Landon Woody – Scott BellemanDistrict 7 1 Susan Crouch – Robert Chapman 2 Dan Snedecor – Mark Francis 3 Jeffrey Young – Mark J. Webb 4 Susan Mann – Susan WillifordDistrict 8 1 Larry Ziegler – Fred Spitzzeri 2 Norman Lowrey – Rosie Camille 3 Lynn Steffen – Patricia Lebeck 4 Eugene Byers – Marilyn ByersDistrict 9 1 Richard Wang – Gerald Rescek 2 Peter Geittmann – Margaret Geittmann 3 John Piljan – Frank Zeman 4 Willett Rush – William FerrisDistrict 10 1 Douglas Riley – Sheryl Riley 2 Jason Mook – Tommy Mook 3 Thomas Bartlett – Susan Callison 4 Shannon Sloan – Thomas WilsonDistrict 11 1 Karen Clemency – Melissa Warheit 2 Monica Ibarra – Kevin Henry 3 Cecilia Kloecker – Jay Gala 4 Tim Oppelt – Terry RaulinDistrict 12 1 Gerald Stein – Chuck Theis 2 Pamela Radike – Mary Jo Campbell 3 J. Kevin Miller – Stephen Bibler 4 Chun Zhou – Xiaoxin Susa XuDistrict 13 1 Carolyn Turek – Cynthia Polayes 2 Mark Langer – Judy Petersen 3 Zhijing Tang – Henry Shi 4 Paula Slesar – Sandra CooperDistrict 14 1 Peter Brock – Beverly Meyer 2 Katie Albers – Brad Albers 3 Jackson Wahl – Sarah Emmons

District 15 1 Lynette Forbes – Brad Wertz 2 Richard Mellinger – Richard Reese 3 Jim McGinnis – Michael Shortridge 4 Cherry Blevins – Ramona BienstockDistrict 16 1 Aaron Denton – Lilly Justman 2 Arvind Sharma – Lynnie Sharma 3 William Eads – Zaeem Lutfi 4 Stephanie Slattery – Adrienne JunoDistrict 17 1 Billy Trabaudo – Elliott Gordon 2 Sharon Smith – June Lloyd 3 Donna Agee – John LeamonDistrict 18 1 Amanda Atwell – Kathleen McGreerDistrict 19 1 Jack Qi – Lucy Zhong 2 Jay Finkelstein – Ed Lechner 3 Henry Yao – Jennifer Hong 4 Janice Closson – Kathreen EsteDistrict 20 1 Paul Walker – Ryerson Schwark 2 John Gassaway – Bruce Backup 3 Keith Kalway – Sharon Sandell 4 Mark Jansa – Fran Henry-JansaDistrict 21 1 Olivia Schireson – Brian Zhang 2 Di Wu – Amit Garg 3 Jesse Liu – Youfeng WuDistrict 22 1 Bipin Patel – Stephen Silvius 2 Danning Lu – Andrew Rowberg 3 Brian Castle – Patrick StaleyDistrict 23 1 Mark Rappaport – Larisa Rappaport 2 Alexander Wiles – Aton Arbisser 3 Lou Zucker – Judy Zucker 4 Ginger Boykin – Joan OliverDistrict 24 1 John Bell – Anthony Swanwick 2 James Keiger – Mee Warren 3 Ross Taff – Leonard Feld 4 Tim Archdeacon – Victor PoonDistrict 25 1 Robert Fucile – Walter Driscoll 2 Jayson Rhuda – Stan Nissen 3 John Lukach – David Boulay 4 Jan Nettler – Sheila Ryan

Keep it CleanMost of us are honest and want to play the game properly. When you play against an opponent you suspect is not playing in accordance with the Laws, or violating the Code of Disciplinary Regulations, please file a Player Memo. There is a version streamlined for online play reports available at www.acbl.org/bbomemo/. You may privately text your director as well, but making a public accusation is itself a violation of the CDR, so please report suspicious conduct in an actively ethical way!

“I’ve volunteered to be one of the investigators when there is suspicion of Unauthorized Information during online play. There are a lot of factors to consider, not least of which is the suspected player’s experience level.

Accusations of cheating are a serious matter. Anyone can do something strange on one deal; but when a pattern emerges, there is smoke. Where there is smoke, there is often fire. For charges to be filed, more than one investigator has to come to the same conclusion.

The game will be better and more popular if we all behave ethically.

Big Brother is watching you.” – Larry Cohen

Online Bridge: Different Mechanics, Same LawsBy Robb Gordon, ACBL National Recorder

When we play online, we are still playing bridge. The Laws of Duplicate Bridge and ACBL Regulations still apply. But facing facts, some things are different. Here are a few:

1. Revoking and leading out of turn are impossible.

2. You must self-Alert.

3. Because you are Alerting only the opponents, and asking questions only of one or both opponents, partner does not “hear” your explanations or questions and that avenue of Unauthorized Information has been eliminated. This saves a lot of arguments and bad feelings.

4. Breaks in tempo are awkward. At the table, if somebody takes a lot of time, you can see that they (presumably) are thinking. In online bridge, it could mean that their tea kettle started whistling and they went to turn off the burner. Law 73E2:

If the Director determines that an innocent player has drawn a false inference from a question, remark, manner, tempo or the like, of an opponent who has no demonstrable bridge reason for the action, and who could have been aware, at the time of the action, that it could work to his benefit, the Director shall award an adjusted score.

This rule applies. When you spill coffee or are distracted by a phone call, it is incumbent on you to make sure the opponents know so they are not deceived by your inattention.

5. The ACBL has long had a rule that partnerships have

two identical convention cards with their names on them. The convention card rules apply to BBO as well, except you need have only one card. To make a convention card, log in. Click Account on the right tabbed menu and select the Convention Cards heading. It is pretty easy to recall a saved card or to complete and save a new one. Remember to load your card by completing the Use With Partner blank with your partner’s BBO name.

6. The ACBL Convention Charts apply here. Make sure your convention is permitted in the game you are playing. For example, a 2♦ opening that shows a weak hand with length in one of the majors is an Open+ Chart convention and is not permitted in any event in the online regional.

7. It has come to our attention that some players have more than one BBO user ID. Please only use one ID when playing in ACBL games with human opponents. We are screening for this.

8. Because you are playing in an ACBL game against human opponents, we encourage you to make sure your profile displays your real name.

Entry FeesEntry fees for events in this tournament are paid at time of initial registration with no additional cost per session. Each event has its own fee.

BBO Help Desk – Convention Cards Convention cards disclose your partnership’s agreements to the opponents in accordance with the rules of bridge. The

ACBL requires that you and your partner make a completed convention card available. Your full names – first and last – should appear at the top. When you sit down to play or register for a tournament with a partner, BBO will see if your partnership has a convention card on file by looking at your list of Personal Cards for your partner’s username. If it is there, you will be notified and the appropriate card is loaded once play starts. If your opponents follow this procedure, you’ll be able to view their cards as well.

After logging in, click on the Account tab along the right edge. Your profile will open as shown at right.

Click on Convention cards. The Convention cards section will open.

To fill out a new card, click on New ACBL Convention Card. If you don’t want to start from a blank card, you can also select one of the Stock Cards.

A blank convention card will appear. Widen the window by dragging the divider to the left. Click each blank line to place your cursor, then enter the appropriate information.

Continue filling in the card until it is complete. When the card is complete, click the “Save changes” button at top left.

To view or edit a card after it is filled out, select it from the list of Personal Cards at the bottom of the Convention cards section.

A prompt will ask you what you want to do with the card. Select view or edit as appropriate. In order for the card to be visible to your opponents, you must designate a partner. Enter your partner’s BBO name as shown and click “Use with partner.”

When you want to view an opponent’s convention card during a game, start by clicking on the three bars.

If the opponents have loaded their convention card, it will appear as a choice in this menu. Select NS Convention Card or EW Convention Card. The card will pop up in another window.

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