[blml] Online Bridge

[Laval Dubreuil]

More complex interpretations may involve unnecessary "mind-reading". 
On-line bridge laws should resist the trend towards sophistication and 
subjectivity apparent in face-to-face laws. Face-to-face bridge may 
already be a lost cause; but the popularity of on-line bridge is partly 
due to the untrammelled enjoyment made possible by its practical, 
objective, easy to learn and easy to understand, rules.
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And don't forget most online bridge is played between four players
for enjoyment. Then, it is a private game, like "at home", without
any rules but the ones you all agree. I know (I was there from the
beginning, more than 15 or 20 years ago...), it is more practical
to have some system definitions and to do like duplicate face to
face competition.

Laval Du Breuil
Quebec City