Bridge Winners Profile for Marc van Beijsterveldt
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- Member Since
- Oct. 12, 2014
- Last Seen
- Feb. 21
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- Bridge Player
- about me
Employee of Dutch Bridge Federation (www.bridge.nl) since 1991,
EBL and WBF TD since 1994 (http://www.worldbridge.org/Repository/peopleforscrap/person.asp?qryid=589)
- Country
- Netherlands
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- BBO Username
- marcvanb
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- On computer versus hand shuffling
- I know. If you want to know why this law was changed, you can read this: http://www.haroldschogger.com/VANHOOF.htm
- On computer versus hand shuffling
- Most important might be how many times a player shuffles his cards after the last round, as that determines part of the randomness for the deals the next session those boards will be used. I think many players will do that less carefully, as the boards are finished for the ...
- Coming to Istanbul for the European Open?
- IST code was transferred to the new airport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Airport). There is also public transport, including subway under the Bosporus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Metro).
- For party bridge game: Is there a curtailed movement for a 3 table individual.
- Movements - a fair approach (Hallén, Hanner & Jannersten) has a movement for three tables you can curtail at any moment (page 35): "The idea is that you can play any number of rounds from two upwards. When you consider it is time to finish you tell the players at table 2 ...
- World Youth Team Championships August 8-18 2018
- WBF results website is down and prospects are not good. Through my twitter account I try to inform my followers (in Dutch), halfway and at the end of all sessions, for U26, U21 and girls (that is where the Dutch teams play). I add pictures of the onsite result screens ...
- First iron points to be offered in San Diego
- A quite humorous but also very clear explanation about the difference between Holland and the Netherlands can be found on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc
- First iron points to be offered in San Diego
- Holland has many cities and indeed most of those have their own pub tournament. The Netherlands even has more cities (and villages), many of them also have these city tours during which you can play bridge. The biggest one will be in a few weeks in the city of 's-Hertogenbosch ...
- Lyon Round-Robin, Day 3
- Several penalties were given (for Bermuda Bowl, for example, see here http://db.worldbridge.org/repository/tourn/lyon.17/microsite/Asp/crosstablerank.asp?qtournid=1440). I suppose most of them, if not all, were given for slow play.
- Lyon Round-Robin, Day 3
- It was because one of the players of Chinese Taipei had a phone with him in the playing area.
- Update to the LAWS in Wroclaw
- I will talk to the secretary to the Laws Committee, Laurie Kelso, this morning and might have some information in the course of the day.
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