[blml] Disclosure f2f

[Brian]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:54:38 +0000 (GMT)
Stefanie Rohan <daisy_duck at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Brian <bmeadows666 at gmail.com> wrote: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. 
> 
> I think that the latter players are those whom the regulations are
> supposed to serve.  I don't think that many people in the world of
> bridge are that concerned with the trials and tribulations of online
> players, and quite right.

<shrug> Please yourself. It's my opinion that you're in a small
minority, evidence being the extensive VuGraphs of national and
international events offered on BBO, presumably with the co-operation
of the organisers, the online laws produced some while back by the WBF,
the online games run under the auspices of various NBOs, the fact that
some rather large NBOs sanction online games for purposes of awarding
master points... all of this seems to me to suggest that there are
quite a few people in "the world of bridge" who are concerned with the
online game. 

You'd be surprised how many players are online who have never played at
a club. Without online bridge, those players would mostly be lost to the
game. With online bridge, you still have a chance of getting them to
play both, assuming they have a club within reach (my nearest is 50
miles away and plays only in the afternoons). Online bridge, IMO, has a
substantial part to play in the future of the game, and hopefully those
in charge will be a little less short-sighted than you. 


Brian. 

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