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In his recent autobiography "Bridge's First Hippie", Peter Weichsel says his team won an Open Board-a-Match event by 0.01, a hundredth of a board.
How is this possible? As I understand BAM scoring, the narrowest possible margin is 1/2 a board (0.5).
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Hundredth of a board??
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Posted 2025-January-18, 22:14
When there are qualifying rounds and then final rounds, you'll get a fraction of your qualifying score carried forward.
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Posted Yesterday, 03:55
smerriman, on 2025-January-18, 22:14, said:
When there are qualifying rounds and then final rounds, you'll get a fraction of your qualifying score carried forward.
That's one way, weighted rulings can do it too if there are more than one, but that is less likely
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Posted Yesterday, 12:35
Actually, so could straight Artificial Adjusted Scores. 0.6 on a board that's scored 1, 0.5, 0. Okay, it won't do 0.01 board, but it does do 0.1 board.
(wait, does the "A+ is 0.6 or percentage of the rest" apply to BAM? If it does, then 16 on a 13 average is 62%...)
But yeah, the right answer here is carry-over from the qualifying day(s).
(wait, does the "A+ is 0.6 or percentage of the rest" apply to BAM? If it does, then 16 on a 13 average is 62%...)
But yeah, the right answer here is carry-over from the qualifying day(s).
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blindsey, on 2025-January-18, 21:18, said:
In his recent autobiography "Bridge's First Hippie", Peter Weichsel says his team won an Open Board-a-Match event by 0.01, a hundredth of a board.
How is this possible? As I understand BAM scoring, the narrowest possible margin is 1/2 a board (0.5).
How is this possible? As I understand BAM scoring, the narrowest possible margin is 1/2 a board (0.5).
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Posted Yesterday, 18:31
Yes, I enjoyed the book(s) too. In Sontag's "The Bridge Bum" Weichsel sounded like an interesting fellow with some sort of good back-story. It took almost 50 years for Weichsel to tell his own story but it was worth the wait.
About the hundredth of a point: Weichsel says at one time small differences in such events were discarded and teams were deemed tied.
I don't get it. Why carry over such scores and then ignore them? Either don't carry scores forward or round them to half-points after the qualifying.
About the hundredth of a point: Weichsel says at one time small differences in such events were discarded and teams were deemed tied.
I don't get it. Why carry over such scores and then ignore them? Either don't carry scores forward or round them to half-points after the qualifying.
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blindsey, on 2025-January-19, 18:31, said:
Yes, I enjoyed the book(s) too. In Sontag's "The Bridge Bum" Weichsel sounded like an interesting fellow with some sort of good back-story. It took almost 50 years for Weichsel to tell his own story but it was worth the wait.
About the hundredth of a point: Weichsel says at one time small differences in such events were discarded and teams were deemed tied.
I don't get it. Why carry over such scores and then ignore them? Either don't carry scores forward or round them to half-points after the qualifying.
About the hundredth of a point: Weichsel says at one time small differences in such events were discarded and teams were deemed tied.
I don't get it. Why carry over such scores and then ignore them? Either don't carry scores forward or round them to half-points after the qualifying.
Goes to show how infinitely large something so small can be.
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