[blml] Disclosure f2f

[Eric Landau]

On Nov 8, 2007, at 3:53 AM, Brian wrote:

> 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.

"The regulations" Stefanie refers to are those made pursuant to "our  
own" TFLB (L80).

Brian tells us that a whole separate set of laws has been promulgated  
("some while back") for on-line bridge.  Any "local" regulations for  
on-line bridge are thus made pursuant to those laws, so have no  
relationship to any "local" regulations made under the F2F laws.  We  
don't need reminding that "local" means two quite different things in  
the real world or in cyberspace.

I don't see where Stefanie and Brian actually disagree about anything  
here.


Eric Landau
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