Compass Clubs to take part in National Simultaneous Barometer Pairs

Jan Spaans will be basing this year's Simultaneous Barometer Pairs event at the Cambridge club this year. What's it all about?

On Friday 13th of June, clubs that use Bob Fearn's Compass scoring system and Bridgemate electronic scoring have been invited to take part in a third Simultaneous Barometer Pairs event. The big difference is, (and this is very special in the bridge world), that the results will be available to all participants round-by-round.

All clubs taking part will be playing the same two boards a table as each other at the same time. With Barometer scoring the running results are calculated and updated after every such round. Clubs can display live running results direct from the internet as the game proceeds. It's another initiative from Bob - believed to be the first of its kind in the world and it gave rise to the X-Clubs concept when first used three years ago. Exciting is the word.

To take part each club needs exactly seven tables - fourteen pairs - no more, no less. That will allow a Howell movement of 26 boards. There will be strict time-keeping of 13 minutes a set in all clubs so things can be finished by 10:30.

Jan will run the central scoring for all clubs from the Cambridge club which is to be the hub this year. Live standings will be published round-by-round on the internet for all to see. The club that hosts the winning pair will receive a free Bridgemate unit from Bridgemate NZ.

Jan is making no charge for this service but clubs may choose to ask their usual table money and possibly a little more to cover bar expenses ... ?