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Did you see THIS??

A powerful new tool has been added to the handrecords available on this site.

.... read on ....

A Bit of an Analysis

Following on from a casual question this extract was taken from the Results pages. (Hope we haven't missed anyone - please let us know)

Playing TimesPlaying Times

In case you're wondering ..

.. Bob has added another column to the Ladder - XG Status. The three categories are Unpublished (U = played < 150 boards), Evolving (E = played between 150 and 1000 boards) and Mature (M = played > 1000 boards). This is because it takes a while for the XG's to settle down - see graph below as an example. Thus, a reasonable player who is status U has a good chance at coming top on the Handicap as their XG will remain at zero until they get beyond 6-7 sessions. Only the most recent 2000 boards are taken into the calculations.

Remember .. all the columns in the Ladder may be sorted by clicking on the green column headers.

Putting the Babich to Bed in 2018

By midnight Friday we had 50 clubs

WELCOME, NEW ZEALAND, TO THE HOME OF X-CLUBS

Did you know that X-Clubs deals are being played in just about one third of New Zealand's clubs? It's like you can have a mini-NZ-Wide Pairs every time you play at club. Check out our Results pages to see which clubs are involved. But that's just the start! James Ward, founder and CEO of Pianola has generously allowed us free use of his fantastic results reporting service. All you have to do if your club plays X-Clubs deals is to send in your email address from this site to get a personalised invitation to create a Pianola log-in for yourself.

We are very fortunate to have a regular commentator on X-Club's Wednesday Night deals. Vil Gravis is an author of long standing and we are privileged to host his lifetime's articles in pdf form on this site. Click on the Vil's Books tab above to see for yourself.

The 2017 Babich NZ-Wide Pairs was scored using Bob Fearn's Compass scoring program: the power behind X-Clubs. We had the first cut of 50 clubs out by midnight. The remaining nine results were in by midday Saturday allowing us to create the final reports for the 1018 pairs that took part - the largest number in many years.

X-Clubs Best Customers

A snapshot of who's getting the most enjoyment (ie bridge) out of life: (source - weekly Leagues table analysing the last 50 weeks - sortable by column)

Vil's new book now available

“Tips and Quips” is available from Vil (email villyn@xtra.co.nz) and most bridge clubs. Vil answers any queries via email, so will be happy to receive any comments or requests from interested players.

When to take the Drop or Finesse ... and HOW to finesse? This week's tip from Vil

Wednesday Review 57 From Wednesday 31/5/17.

Board 2 Dealer E NS Vul

753
AT864
86
QT3
AJT9
K5
AQT42
95
KQ
QJ9
K9
AKJ742
8642
732
J753
86

Message from Vil ...

Hi all readers of “Wednesday Review”

Vil's lesson for all (except Dummy)

Wednesday night, 17th May 2017,

deal 4, dealer West, All vul

AKQ2
AJ9
J54
AQ5
T64
632
K972
KJ8
J975
KQT754
8
T2
83
8
AQT63
97643

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