[Rain]

Which was 2004's post of the year? Any suggestion?

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Rain

[Rain]

A few posts that were especially memorable for me. (I seldom read the technical posts, so there will be a clear bias against that for me)

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By Jangvik

BBO is great. I have the possibility to play great bridge, join fancy clubs, watch world class players play, get live coverage from Bermuda Bowl with expert commentary, read great colums, try to solve almost impossible double dummy, follow catfights, not to mention all wonderful friends I have met.

And it is all free!
I still can't believe that all this is for free. Horray for freebies.

But one day, not long ago in a galaxy far far away, Fred G and Uday came up with BBO Dollar. My first thought was; great, finally I can give something back.

But all I find there is bridgedeals that is connected to BridgeBase. And of course it should be there. It is your product, and to earn money on it, you need to sell those kind of products. I fully understand that. But it is not for me. I am sitting at computers all day long and trying to earn some salary. When I use the computer at my spare time I am doing it for play bridge with my friends. If I wanted to learn bridge, and gee I really do, I want to read it in a book. Yes, I am one of those who still prefer to read books instead of sitting in front of a screen.
Having the puter in bed is not an option, my genitals is not build to handle computers on it, not to mention how heavy my screen is.

I do see the advantages of having learning program instead of having it in a book. You can play and try by yourself, you don't need a deck to lay the diagrams and so on. However, a book is still a book and I prefer those.

So what is my point? I am wondering if you are going to sell books in the future? If so I would gladly spend a lot of money on them.

I am really looking forward to get a copy of the forthcoming bestseller "BBO Behind the scenes".
Where we will get a bbography of the start of the bbo. And where we will be served with newsbreaking facts from the bbo database. Imagine what interesting data Fred, Sheri and Uday has! Here are some example I would die to have information of.
Player with worst connection
Player with most nicknames
The stupid question ever said by a player to BBO. Wait a minute, maybe not that one, could be one of mine actually.
Which player who bid most slams
Which player who misplayed most slams
Which player who has been registered shortest time before being banned
Which contract is the most played
Which player who have the best imprating, and worst of course (Could be me again)
What was those zillions z9854 who logged in at the same time a beatiful morning
And lot of other funny statistics
Seriously. Will there be other things in that shop to buy, except more deals?

http://forums.bridgebase.com/ind...wtopic=2696&hl=

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I liked this one because Fred never replied. :>


http://forums.bridgebase.com/ind...wtopic=5042&hl=



Rain

[sceptic]

Law of averages says it has to be one of Bens, I vote for his posts on squeezes

[kgr]

sceptic, on Dec 28 2004, 06:58 AM, said:

Law of averages says it has to be one of Bens, I vote for his posts on squeezes

Same vote for me, based on law of quality.

[Free]

Do deleted posts count as well?

[Double !]

My candidate for the 2004 "post" of the year has little to do with bridge per se, but a lot to do with people. It is Tritri's December 12th "GRAZIE" letter including to various members of BBO who were there for her when she needed them. Somehow this seems to be more important than learning the intricacies of some convention or bidding system that I couldn't use anyway given the ACBL GCC regs...let's not go there now. To me, that letter reinforced the awareness that we don't and can't live in isolation or in a vacuum, and that we all need each other. I only hope that tritri (Elana) continues to be well and that the people who were there for her know how important they were.

[Double !]

follow-up

If we look hard enough, we might find that there are other people out there in BBO land who are also going through difficult times and who might benefit from warm fuzzies and support. Don't expect that anyone is about to come forward and announce to the world about some personal life issue. Just know that there are an awful lot of us here who are behind you. PEACE to all. Oops, growing up in the 60s is starting to show!!!


And I meant "conventions that I can't use given ACBL GCC rules". There is a lot more to that issue than meets they eye.

[badderzboy]

I would agree with Ben's posts on Squeezes - superb for us BILlies and the best bridge post overall.

I also remember the 'funniest bridge stories' chain which had me in tears of laughter at one point. I would also add a special award for Slothy's posts which allows bring a smile to my face.

Steve