Bridge Winners Profile for Roland Wald
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- Member Since
- July 29, 2011
- Last Seen
- Jan. 27
- Member Type
- Bridge Teacher
- about me
I have been teaching bridge for more than 40 years. Perhaps best known as the BBO vugraph co-ordinator for 10 years (I retired in 2012), but I am still a frequent (voice) commentator. In 2011, I received the Alan Truscott Memorial Award.
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- World Championship VuGraph Schedule
- I tried that with *my* article but was told that it's BW's policy not to have a featured article that has been posted elsewhere. And I had posted it on my Facebook timeline a few hours before.
- World Team Championships in China
- Please note that as of tomorrow (Tuesday) all starting times have been moved back one hour. The BBO schedule page has been updated to show correct times in YOUR time zone. As for voice I'm probably not the only one who thinks that it's pretty bad. I had ...
- World Championship VuGraph Schedule
- Well, the BBO schedule is not enritely accurate. The last match of the day will start 20 minutes later than advised, at half past the hour.
- World Team Championships in China
- Start time for the last match of the day has been changed from 10 to 30 minutes past the hour.
- World Team Championships in China
- 'Only' 24 BBO tables per session on the opening day Sunday. Here is the schedule (local time): https://tinyurl.com/y69ctg4p
- World Team Championships in China
- Felix Chen, I gave Emmanuel Corynen the correct answer, did I not? Whether or not you like it, I reserve the right to use 'currently' in September as well as any other month. The point Frances Hinden makes is valid because many think that GMT is the same as UK ...
- World Team Championships in China
- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is often interchanged or confused with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), but GMT is a time *zone* and UTC is a time *standard*. Read more about it here: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/gmt-utc-time.html
- World Team Championships in China
- David, Traian tells me that there will only be video coverage of 16 tables. If this is true, I don't understand why the organisers have added 16 (tables). Big is not always the same as great. However, maybe Traian will be pleasantly surprised when he arrives in Wuhan, so ...
- World Team Championships in China
- Yes, poor Traian Chrira, arriving Friday in Wuhan. Al, I just sent you an email about his concerns.
- World Team Championships in China
- China is currently on GMT+8. This schedule is presented in your local time zone so that no conversion is needed for anyone: http://www.bridgebase.com/vugraph/schedule.php?headers=yes&owneronly=0&commentatoronly=0&order_by=event
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