Why do we still allow bidding slips, they make cheating too easy
Most of the club events that i play are run using bidding boxes but most tournaments are run with written bidding slips and I am aware of some players who appear to take full advantage of these.
If I make a call, I always fit it into the next available square on the bidding slip.
Not everyone does this.
I expect that in many cases this is jusrt random or depending on the bid so that 3NT takes up more space than 1H.
I am however aware of some players who appear to me to need more room to write a bid if they are strong than if they are weak. So, as an example, a 1NT overcall occupies one sqaure if the bidder has 15 HCP but takes up two whole squares when he has 18HCP.
Why do we continue to allow this?
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- BARRY JONES10 Dec 2018 at 09:20PM
Hi John.
Bidding boxes have their own problems in that regard. Have you read about the international pair that spaced their bidding cards closer together if they were minimum and wide apart if maximum ? Just too easy for them. Or directed when 1 pair say they doubled the final contract and the other deny it ? Of course the auction has long dissapeared and it would be so very easy if there was a written record. We tried to introduce boxes in Hamilton but received a huge down vote. I can see both methods have advantages and disadvantages we have to live with.
- GILES HANCOCK11 Dec 2018 at 11:52AM
The future has to be bidding modules on tablets. This would also monitor hesitations and total time. There would be no more bids out of rotation, insufficient bids, illegal doubles.
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