[blml] Disclosure f2f

[raija]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian" <bmeadows666 at gmail.com>
To: <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Disclosure f2f


> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:31:01 +0900
> Robert Geller <geller at nifty.com> wrote:
>
>> Brian さんは書きました:
>> >Well, I'll tell you that it's an absolute pain in the backside as far
>> >as online bridge is concerned, where any number of newcomers to the
>> >online game who have played bridge under their local NBO think that
>> >it's *their* local regulations that are in force world wide.
>>
>> Each on-line site needs to adopt its own alerting rules, or even
>> better, the various major onlne sites need to adopt a common set of
>> rules.
>
> The online sites on which I've played over the past 12 years (OKBridge
> then BBO) *DO* adopt their own alerting rules, and at least as far as
> OKBridge and BBO are concerned, they are almost identical.
>
>> The situation is different for on-line bridge because
>> self-alerting is technically feasible (the oppts but not pard sees
>> the alert).
>
> Yes, I'm well aware of how self-alerting works, but I don't see the
> relevance. It's not *how* you alert that's the problem, it's *what* you
> alert. As I said, too many players come from F2F bridge to the online
> game with the idea that their local NBO's regulations and common
> systems are the world-wide standard, and disabusing them of that notion
> can be a right nuisance. There *is* a cost to devolving down to the
> national level, even if players who only play F2F in their own country
> don't see it.
>
>> if on-line bridge ever became a major form of
>> competetion then presunably what happens there would heavily
>> influence F2F bridge, but since the security issues are permanently
>> unresolvable (unless the competitors are concentrated at a few
>> heavily monitores sites around the world) this may never happen.
>>
>
> Well, given what I hear of the ACBL's declining membership, I wouldn't
> put too much money against the online form of the game becoming the more
> popular, at least in the USA, within the next decade. My local club
> here in northern Pennsylvania folded due to lack of members about three
> years ago, and now the nearest club that I know of is over 50 miles
> away.
>
>
> Brian.
>
> -- 
Online bridge in my estimation *is* already more popular (meaning: more 
people play it) than F2F.  My local bridge club is fading fast, and their 
only remedy is regular raises of card fees... Of course I don't know 
anything firsthand about how clubs elsewhere are doing.
Raija