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ACBLscore Manual - American Contract Bridge League

1. The Sanction Area is now colored Light Green and is the active area Any modifications will be performed on the currently displayed Sanction Record A grid is displayed below the Sanction Record and provides a list of the current entered sanction records for this club You use the F2 key to switch back to the Club Record The mode bar just above the menu bar will change to reflect where you are currently working Club Record Mode Related Links Attendance Records 120 Club Game Records 21 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 125 5 2 10 Specific sessions Editing Club Session Information Use the Up or Down arrow keys or Prev for Previous or Next to examine defined sessions To edit information on an existing game select the session and use Edit for Edit record The arrow keys will assist in choosing the field to edit The Session Information Screen shows the session number see below for each game what type it is O Open I Invitational Restricted N Novice B Bridge Plus the starting time the name of the director if known whether the game is stratified whether it is run as a handicap game and the name of the game Open Pairs will be used unless you come up with something better See Club Weekly Session Numbers 151 Do not use Edit to add a game run at the same time or same session number as a preexisting game Use Add to add a new game
2. 2006 American Contract Bridge League 50 ACBLscore Help 3 4 3 5 9 Print masterpoint receipts for non ACBL members with PCON 2 Additional help topics Pair game how to set up es Individual how to set up s Team game how to set up 74 Home style how to set up so Manually scored games s Series games el Stratified events 74 Multi session games ei Home Style How to set up If you want to run a home style pair game select option 4 home style pairs from the Select Type of Game window which appears after you use ADD 21 ACBLscore will ask a letter for the event Then choose a method of scoring from the list ACBLscore supports Win Loss and Victory Points Next enter the number of boards per match number of matches maximum possible wins and number of pairs as asked up to 800 pairs is acceptable by the program Then indicate whether the game is stratified After choosing the event rating and the club enter the club session number Next a small window that asks to select club session is displayed This window has information about the sessions i e club name session number type and name of the game Choose the appropriate session if there is more than one and press Enter If it is a club masterpoint game ACBLscore will require the club rating Subsequently ACBLscore will ask whether a novice 0 20 game is being held in a different section concurrent
3. Swiss KO Round Robin and if more than one match is played where team mates are exchanged between matches select 4 Home Style pairs In both cases select the scoring method as Win Loss or Victory points as apropriate Score entry is identical to swiss teams enter the wins matches won and score or victory points Board A Match teams The term board a match refers to a method of scoring However through common usage board a match has come to refer to the movement used The overall winner in a board a match contest is the team that wins the most matches in which each board played is a match with one matchpoint available on each board While board a match games are better suited for single session events clubs may use them for two session club championships The usual board a match movement is similar to the Mitchell movement used in pair games However there are significant differences because each team has an E W and a N S pair Club directors should become thoroughly familiar with board a match movements before undertaking the operation of such games The event is structured so that the boards played by the N S pair of Team 1 versus the E W pair of Team 2 are subsequently played by the E W pair of Team 1 versus the N S pair of Team 2 The team with the best raw score on a board earns one point On a board in which there is a tie in the raw score each team earns one half a point Teams in multi session board a matc
4. 4 3 4 1010 10 tables 10 rounds of 2 or 3 boards No player rotation 1013 10 tables 13 rounds From Movements a fair approach 1015 10 tables 15 rounds First session This movement is divided into 3 stanzas of 5 rounds Distribute boards normally for the first stanza with 1 2 on table 1 and 19 20 on table 10 Boards 21 30 are not in play in the first stanza Second stanza Boards 11 12 on table 1 in progression to 29 30 on table 10 Boards 1 10 are not in play in the second stanza Third stanza Boards 21 22 on table 1 in progression to 29 30 on table 5 and 1 2 on table 6 in progression to 9 10 on table 10 Boards 11 20 are not in play in the third stanza Computer set up for 15 rounds and 30 boards in play 1027 10 tables 9 rounds of 3 boards Players rotate clockwise around North after each board 1133 11 tables 11 rounds of 3 boards Players rotate clockwise around North after each board Computer set up for 33 rounds and 33 boards in play 1211 12 tables 11 rounds of 2 boards Appendix The highest set of boards 23 24 in 2 board round is stationary on table 12 The other boards move normally with boards going from table 1 to table 11 1212 12 tables 12 rounds of 2 boards No player rotation Use S1224 for player rotation 1224 12 tables 12 rounds of 2 boards South and East switch positions to play the second board of each round Computer set up for 24 rounds and 24 boards in play R12
5. ve Be ACBLscore for Windows 2006 American Contract Bridge League American Contract Bridge presents ACBLscore for Windows by Jim Lopushinsky amp Paul Martin ACBLscore is software used by clubs to score duplicate bridge and report results to the ACBL ACBLscore will handle almost any variation of movement including individual It can rank a stratified game with up to three strata and can score by matchpoints IMPs or Swiss Teams It supports a database of players so that it will compute handicaps print mailing labels etc Contents l Table of Contents Part 2 3 Part Il 1 2 Part Ill 1 2 Foreword 0 ACBLscore 9 Installing ACBLSCOMG LR 11 Downloading ACBLscore 11 Installing from a CD OF Pen Drive e 14 Setting Up your CMS EE 15 dcr 15 ACBL Monthly Reports 17 Making a Monthly Club Report for ACBL seeeeeeeeeeeeeses seen enne nnn nnns nnmnnn na 17 Unreported Club Games eeeeeeseeeieeeseeseeeee ense enn nnne nnn ennn inna sas n natn nsn sn assa nnaman nnmnnn a 18 Game 20 piedi EIE 21 Game Commands PADD CITEA ADJ nS ee eee ND BACK Ctrl B BO
6. Comma delimited file Use this report type to create a comma delimited file This is a standard file type that most data base software such as Microsoft Access DBASE etc can import ACBLscore can also import a comma delimited file You will first be asked to chose restrictions 41 then the data base fields to include in the output file Last name and first name are always included as the first 2 fields Tag the fields with the space bar in the order that they are to be included It is a good idea to make a note of the included fields and their order so that you can specify the same fields when you import into the target data base After you press F9 key to accept the field definitions you will be asked if the field names should be written out as the first record Answer Y es only if the target data base can ignore the first record or use the first record to determine the fields See Generic Report Selectable Restrictions 4 screen Complete List Creating a Complete List A complete list will show the name address telephone numbers player number unit 2006 American Contract Bridge League 128 ACBLscore Help number and group codes for all selected records You can have the list organized alphabetically by surname by Postal Zip Code by Unit Number by Group Code either alphabetically by surname or Group Number or by player number The final report can be sent to the screen to the printer or t
7. OO NOOO P 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Part IV Home Style How to set Up sssisneennmnnrnnennnnenennnnnnnnnnenneneennenennnneennnnennnnenn 50 IMP Scoring Methods 0 euntensoeumeceey 50 Individual How to set Up innennnnnnenennnnnnnenennenennnennnnennenese 51 Manually Scored Games ss iniiinnnnnnnenennnnennnnnennennennenennnnennnnnennnnenn 52 Masterpoint Factors ss see nnee sees nneeseeenneeseeesneeseeesneeseseseeeseeesnes 52 Masterpoint Ratings D dd dd neue 53 Movement Errors 5 arn a E Qe nie in pos xx ares eed ees eee DM CN REI OR CN ERN C 56 Adding a table or pair to a Howell ritieni ciini nett ritu Sege SEeg 56 Errors in Rover Movemenls 1 eoi uene cen celte ensesnien Led eere sene cua eios cse so ss nee Sob da so sees sace peii se EES 57 Forgot to call the SKIP 58 Increasing number of boards per round ccscccseeeeeeesseessneesseesenesseeesseeesaessseeeseaeseeseneesaeessuesseessnessaesesneesneesseesonee 58 Pair sits the wrong direction Movements Creating your own ULT RTETIPDRCETL IE Pair Game How to set Up nnennennmnnnnnnnnnenennnnennnenennnnnenenennnnennnnneneenenne 63 rires en Serambled RT CT Loc I E E E A E AA E A N E E E A E E E A Games Main Screen Series Game meet ER Series Winners recording MPS erectio d d dinde NA Eaa
8. Specify rege for Last active ACBL date Blank Oldest Date include blank dates Oldest Date 5 1 2006 n Newest Date 5 30 2006 5 3 12 4 2 PIF By ACBL Fee Code Select ACBL Fee Codes restrictions ACBL Fee Codes to include SPACE tag untag F8 tag untag Student N Non life master regular L Life master reduced M LM paying regular fees H Household P Patron X Patron Household blank None of the above o 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 137 5 3 12 4 3 PIF By ACBL Member Status 2 elect player type restrictions Player to include SPACE tac _ Non Life Master ACBL number ACBL member Life Master ACBL number ACBL member blank NM NA NEW nn Foreign player number WBF ABA etc OK Cancel 5 3 12 4 4 PIF By ACBL Rank Codes 2006 American Contract Bridge League 138 ACBLscore Help Sect ACBL Ranks restrictions Rookie blank 0 5 A Junior Master 5 20 B Club Master 20 50 C Sectional Master 50 100 D Regional Master 100 200 E NAC Master 200 300 F Life Master 300 500 G Bronze LM 500 1000 H Silver LM 1000 2500 Gold LM 2500 5000 J Diamond LM 5000 7500 K Emerald LM 7500 10000 L Platinum LM over 10000 M Grand LM NABC over 10000 X Rank not known S Suspended OK Cancel 5 3 12 4 5 PIF By Category A Code lt p Select A Categories restrictions BE L blank R 5 3 12 4 6 PIF
9. To Edit group codes c for classifying a player press or click on F3 key See Groups os screen Attendance Records To View or edit attendance records and session by session masterpoints for a player press or click on F4 key See Attendance Records s screen Player Percentages To View or edit percentages Ha won by a player press or click on F5 key See Player Handicap Percentages vg screen Print Player Record To print this player s record to the printer press or click on F7 key Once you press the F7 key this player s informamtion will be sent directly to the printer Merge Records To merge multiple occurances s of the same player press or click on F8 key See Merge Records wg screen lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Data Base 101 Quitting To return to the Main Menu you can either type a Q press the ESC key click on the Quit button or click the Red X on the Windows screen 5 1 1 Add Using Add The Add command creates a record for a new player Type the last name of the new player ACBLscore will not accept a blank for last name and use the arrow keys to move to any field When you re satisfied with the new player record press F9 key or click on done To abort the Add process press the Escape key Nothing entered for the new player will be saved 5 1 2 Copy Using Copy Copy creates a new record which is identical to a selected record Copy w
10. 0 00 0 00 0 00 F4 Edit iew Attendance and MPs F2 Edit MPs for this player Club use F1 Help F3 Edit Groups for ths player F7 Print F8 Merge ACBL non members F5 Edit View Handicap Percentages for this Player Next Prey Find Top Last Edit Add Copy Delete Quit Note That some of the Menu buttons are grayed out This means those buttons are not available at this time On this screen they are not available since there are no records in this table and the only options you have are to Add a record press F1 key for help or to Quit Related Links lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League 112 ACBLscore Help Player Information Area ho Masterpoints io Groups los Player Handicap Percentages hos Attendance Records we Delete Player Record ios Merge Records hos 5 1 10 View or edit attendance records 5 1 11 Using F4 key to view or edit attendance F4 key allows you to view a player s attendance and masterpoints won by that player in those games Note the attendance records will reflect your decision to update all players or only those players who won masterpoints To survey games played by a selected player use the Up or Down arrows or P for Previous or N for Next commands To edit a selected attendance record type E To add an attendance record type A Add should be used to track attendance
11. 151 Selection Parameters State province 151 Selection Parameters Unit number 151 Series Games 69 Series Winners recording MPs 69 SetPath 167 2006 American Contract Bridge League Index Tournaments 184 U Unreported Club Games 18 Update 99 110 Utilities 176 Set Screen Font 168 Setting up your Club s 15 Setup 166 Special Games 70 Special Games ACBL and District wide games 70 Special Games ONT and NAP events 71 Special Games Instant matchpoint games 71 Special Games Junior fund games 72 Special Games Sectional tournament at clubs 72 Special Games Unit games 73 State 180 State Codes 182 Stratified Events 74 iT Team Game Howto setup 74 Technicolor files 173 Tournament 184 Tournament Adding player number to existing non member player record 184 Tournament Augmenting tournament data base 185 Tournament Checklist of Mandatory Procedures 185 Tournament Choice pairs 185 Tournament Continuous Pairs processing 187 Tournament Creating Data Files for Memphis and for Archive 187 Tournament DBADDing events 188 Tournament Entering events in data base 188 Tournament Generating Memphis Masterpoint Report 188 Tournament Generating specialized masterpoint lists 189 Tournament Group codes 189 Tournament Merging Data Bases 190 Tournament Merging non members 190 Tournament Processing corrections 191 Tournament Reinitializing d
12. carryover session score percentage adjustment stratification and previous or next session assignment These reports are suitable for ACBL processing ACBLscore will ask how many copies you want If you are producing presses for the ACBL be sure to top set the paper place the perforation just above where the printing head is located PXOV PXOV can be used to cross over from a previous round See EDPX e for details See XOV for explanation of Report of missing names message QUIT Alt X QUIT terminates execution of the program ACBLscore will double check Quit Y N Y 2006 American Contract Bridge League 44 ACBLscore Help 3 2 49 3 2 50 3 2 51 3 2 52 3 2 53 ACBLscore will bring you to the Main Menu if you answer Y and return you to the game menu if you respond N RECAP F5 key RECAP produces a detailed report of the pairs their total score and ranking for session and overall as well as a board by board breakdown of the actual score achieved by each pair and their matchpoints for their result The recap is printed at 8 lines per inch and will usually take 2 pages If you wish to print at 6 lines per inch 3 pages use OREC ACBLscore will ask whether you want the PRESS 4 A recap without a press has the information the players want but looks less official You may print either the N S or E W recap and if using combined scoring you may produce all combi
13. w Allow Edit of Names in Game File w Allow Auto Stratification Game Options Allows you to change the names edit modification options when entering names in a game Options available 2006 American Contract Bridge League Setup 167 Allow edit of names in Game File he7 6 1 1 Allow edit of names in Game File Selecting this option will allow modifications of player data in the data base when entering names in a game New players can be added to the data base or the spelling of names in the data base can be changed 6 2 Printer Configuration After intallation you should configure ACBLscore for your printer From the Main Menu select Setup then Select Printer then Make Model ACBLscore uses PCSPOOL a public domain print spooler to take care of all its printing needs PCSPOOL writes all output to temporay files on your hard disk or computer memory and allows you to do other things without waiting for the printer to finish To enable the spooler from the main menu select Setup then Printer then Use Spooler You will then be given the choice of Printer buffer in memory or Printer buffer on disk To disable the spooler from the main menu select Setup then Printer then Do not use spooler 6 3 Set Path Used to set the Game and Data Base file paths The default settings are Game ACBLSCOR GAMEFILE Data base ACBLSCOR DBASE You can use Set Path to change the location of your files
14. Club Weekly Session Numbers 115 Club Setup Game not held 116 Club Setup Manually scored games 113 adding 113 Club Setup Specific sessions 125 Codes 180 Comma delimited file 127 export 127 Comma delimited file import 163 Complete List report 127 Copy game files 178 Country 180 Country Codes 180 Custom Report 128 D Data Base Add 101 Data Base Copy 101 Data Base Data record 101 Data Base Edit 101 Data Base Edit group codes 102 Data Base Edit masterpoints 102 Data Base Find a player 103 Data Base Merging players 103 Data Base View or edit attendance records 112 Data Base View or edit percentages 112 Data Base Import Merge 161 Data Base Maintenance 153 Data Base Reports 125 Database 99 110 Database Find 110 Database Update 110 Delete error messages 172 Downloading ACBLscore 11 Fe Factoring Scores 21 Find 110 Game 20 Game Commands 21 Game Commands ADD Ctrl A Game Commands AREP 24 Game Commands BOARD F10 25 Game Commands BUL 25 Game Commands CAPT 28 Game Commands CCO 28 22 24 2006 American Contract Bridge League Index 197 Game Commands CFIGx 28 Game Commands CH F7 29 Down Up 29 Game Commands CO 29 Game Commands CPAIR 29 Game Commands DBADD Ctrl D 29 Game Commands EDMOV 30 Game Commands EDPX 32 Game Commands EDXOV 32 Game Commands ELIG 33 Game Commands ENTER F2 33 Game Command
15. Discover only Fill in the credit card information when asked as you run the report If payment is via credit card the report file can be e mailed to club report mail1 acbl org The ACBLscore program will display the name of the file in your computer or diskette 2006 American Contract Bridge League 18 ACBLscore Help 2 2 to attach to the e mail If the report is e mailed keep the cover sheet for your records E mailed reports where the credit card information is missing or invalid will not be accepted by ACBL As long as the club game records have not been deleted from your data base you can produce financial reports for months in the past Unreported Club Games Steps for resolving unreported games when the financial report indicates some games as not reported 1 If the game was not held see help for Game not held ue 2 If you do not run any games for the club session number delete the information from the data base Select Data Base then Club Setup If you have more than one club bring the correct club into view Press F2 key to work with sanctioned game information Press N until the desired session number that you want to delete is highlighted Press D to delete 3 Bring up the game file Go to Game press F2 key and select the game Verify that the rating of the game is correct near the middle of the information screen for the game Verify that the weekly club session number s i
16. Find Top Last Edi Add Copy Delete Quit If you type a Y for yes or click the Yes Button the merge will commence Player Handicap Percentages At the top of this screen the title tells you what table you are currently accessing In this case it is the Percent table The status bar immediately below it shows that you are in Club Mode where the table you are using is located the tables name and how many records are in it 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 109 frmPercentages Club D ACBLSCOR PERCENT DAT Contains 0 Records PERCENTAGES FOR HANDICAP GAMES Last Name First Name Player Game Link Date amp cul Club Weekly Session Number Section Percent 0 00 EE Pl Return to Main Player Information Fz Print _F1 Help Next Prey Find Top Last Edit fi Copy Delete Quit Note That some of the Menu buttons are grayed out This means those buttons are not available at this time On this screen they are not available since there are no records in this table and the only options you have are to Add a record press F5 key to return to the Main Player Information Screen press F1 key for help or to Quit lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League 110 ACBLscore Help 5 1 9 7 Player Information Area Player Information Last Name First Name Player Str
17. If more than one match is found all matches will be displayed on the top of the screen You may use the arrow keys to find the right name or you can jump to the first letter of the first name by typing that letter To accept a name press Enter key If exactly one match was found it will be displayed at the top of the screen Enter key accepts the name ESCape lets you try again you might have mistyped it or Ignore the data base the player isn t in the data base To search by player number press the F2 key To edit existing names use the arrows to select the name press the F10 key to redo the entry Press the F9 key when finished NEW Ctrl N Use NEW to switch to a different game file ACBLscore will ask you to specify a game file To create a new game enter its name To retrieve an old game type its name You can get a list of the game files in the directory ordered by name by pressing the F2 key by newest game press F3 key by oldest game press F4 key or ask for all gamefiles that may need to be DBADDed a press F5 key When a list of games appears on the screen use the arrow keys to find the desired game or press Enter key 2006 American Contract Bridge League 42 ACBLscore Help 3 2 38 3 2 39 3 2 40 3 2 41 3 2 42 NOTE Use NOTE to attach a message to a game file The message will pop up each time the game file is selected Useful to convey messages from the field
18. If you answer Yes you will be put into Group Add Mode Answering No will make the menu bar active again Group Add Mode E m EN E I RECH Em EN Ka PS Fa P 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 107 5 1 9 4 Masterpoints Player Master Points MASTER POINTS Total Year to Date Month to Date Recent Eligibility 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 Use the F2 key to access this area F2 Edit MPs for this player Club use only If change a value in one of the Master Points fields you can press the ESCape key to abort the change Once you exit the last field all changes are saved 2006 American Contract Bridge League 108 ACBLscore Help 5 1 9 5 5 1 9 6 Merge Records lt h ACBLScore Players Database Club D ACBLSCOR PLAYERN DAT Contains 1 Records Player Information Last Name Doe First Name John Player amp Street 1 City State Zip Country Street 2 wj ij Email Ir Press ENTER for Yes This procedure will move attendance and percentage records to the player currently displayed from other selected players who do not have an ACBL player number Continue F4 Edit View Attendance and MPs F2 Edit MPs for this player Club use only F1 Help F3 Edit Groups for ths player F7 Print Merge ACBL non members F5 Edit View Handicap Percentages for this Player Next Prev
19. N o will not ask for confirmation when a team is considered for the round robin a second time Match results screen Using the Match results screen 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 79 To post scores press F2 key and select 1 Match results screen Matches remaining to post if less than 14 unposted matches are displayed on the top If using Win loss or VPs Match result entry is IMP difference positive or negative 999 indicates an unposted score If using Board A Match Swiss result is boards won 9 99 or 999 indicates an unposted score with BAM Swiss Also in BAM Swiss if the entry is greater than the maximum score it is divided by 10 For example 45 will be interpreted as 4 5 making it easier to enter these scores There are 3 untitled columns to the left of the Team column The first is sit out status A star appears here if sit outs are needed The second column indicates stationary resigned and hold status S for stationary teams X for teams that quit x for teams that have not begun and H for teams that are held from pairing A number indicates the final round number for a team that is resigning but still active The third column is round robin status R if the team is currently in the round robin and r if the team is in a short 1 round round robin When ACBLscore makes a pairing the teams are announced to the screen in large numbers Enter the table number for th
20. PIF By ACBL Fee Code hs PIF By Mail Code ki 5 3 13 1 ACBL member status Selecting ACBL Member status You may choose to restrict the report to players based on the information in the player number Select any of the following by tagging with the space bar Non Life Master Tag this to select ACBL non Life Masters Life Master Tag this to select ACBL Life Masters blank Tag this to select blank ACBL numbers NM Tag this to select NM NA Tag this to select NA NEW Tag this to select NEW nn non ACBL number To select players with foreign numbers numbers 2006 American Contract Bridge League 146 ACBLscore Help 5 3 13 2 5 3 13 3 preceeded with ABA WBF members etc To select only ACBL members Tag both Non Life Master and Life Master To select only non members of the ACBL Tag all except Non Life Master and Life Master Press F9 key when done These options will allow you to make separate reports for ACBL members non members LMs etc Note that ACBLscore will rely on the accuracy of the player records Be sure to update records as players become members See PIF By ACBL Member Status ei screen ACBL rank codes Choosing ACBL rank This option will allow to you pick players who match masterpoint ranges You may include all players or pick and choose which ranges to use The list of ranks that are displayed for you to s
21. Regional Master 100 199 99 13 0 50 NABC Master 200 non LM LO 0 25 Life Master Under 500 5 0 125 Life Master Over 500 0 0 00 3 2 26 2 3 2 26 3 Handicapped events In a handicap game the less experienced or less successful players are assigned a handicap that will allow them to compete more equally with the better players in the game By using SET and choosing option 8 you may enable the handicap option or revert a handicap game back to a normal game Handicap games can be scored two ways One option is to rank the pairs only on the basis of their score plus their handicap and masterpoints are awarded based on the ranking The second option produces two ranks one for raw score the other for score plus handicap Most clubs have found the second option is more appealing to the experienced players the first option makes the handicap effect more telling If 2 ranks are selected you will get to choose the masterpoint option MPs are 5096 for each rank added together or the new way MPs are 100 scratch or 50 handicap whichever is larger The handicap may be on the basis of past performance you ll be able to select which games count and how many games the computer should consider or you may manually enter the handicap as matchpoints to be determined by your own reckoning You may allow negative handicaps which would increase the spread among the pairs Once you ve decided how your handicap game will be scored yo
22. To create a new club session record use Add for Add club session When you have finished editing and creating club sessions use the F2 key To exit editing without saving any changes press the ESCape key and type Y to abandon changes 5 3 Data Base Reports The report producing utility will allow you to harness the information in your data base This utility can produce mailing labels tailored to your needs masterpoint lists for posting in your club and phone lists The custom report capability will allow you to find the records you need Most report utilities allow you to select the order the report is presented Sort Keys hsa Most report utilities allow you include all players in the report or to tailor your choices according to many categories These Selection Parameters 14 ensure that your report is complete without including everything The main report generating screen will give you the following choices 1 Phone Listhso 2 Complete iz 3 Mailing Labels zs 2006 American Contract Bridge League 126 ACBLscore Help 5 3 1 5 3 2 Masterpoint Listas Custom Report hes Monthly Club Masterpoint Reports for Non members of the ACBL ag Attendance reports hz ACBL Player Number File l2 Player Information File m 10 Conmiadelimiedillste 11 Qualifiers from NAOP GNT etchsi OONAOA See Reports Exports 3 screen ACBL Player Number File ACBL Player Number File Yo
23. number of tables number of rounds and board sets and asks you the number of boards per round through a window entitled External Individual A brief description of the movement is displayed next If itis a Mitchell movement and the number of tables is prime ACBLscore asks the maximum number of played rounds and the number of boards per round and gives the movement which is described above Then it asks the number of the players who are sitting north south east and west Next you will need to select either pickups or travelers Pick ups Sequence by table number Pick ups Sequence by N S pair number Travelers Sequence by N S pair number Travelers Sequence by round number or Travelers by N S pair then Pick ups by table number If using travelers select Travelers Sequence by round number Then indicate whether the event is stratified and the event rating After selecting the club enter the session number If itis a club masterpoint game choose the appropriate rating Next indicate whether there is a Novice game held concurrently with your game Press ESC or F9 key to continue If you selected Barometer movement at the beginning you will be asked to choose either Mitchell or One Winner The difference between Barometer Mitchell and regular Mitchell or Barometer One Winner and regular One Winner for that matter is that everybody plays the same set of boards at the same time in Barometer Mitchell and in Barometer One Winne
24. optional per year you must send in a report of moneys collected to the ACBL International Fund Club Championship large masterpoints reports and funds to ACBL Unit Charity sectional rating Sponsered by the Unit and sanctioned by ACBL ACBL wide Charity sectional rating Usually in conjunction with a Charity game at an NABC ACBL wide International Fund sectional rating 1 2 red points Often in conjuction with the same event at an NABC District Wide sectional rating Sponsored by the District and sanctioned by ACBL Junior Fund sectional rating Clubs can hold one such game during the month of February for each sanction session Canada wide Olympiad Fund Annual sectional rated event for Canadian clubs ACBL wide Charity no hand records sectional rating Usually in conjunction with a Charity game at an NABC Select this if the game is not held during the regular ACBL wide event ACBL wide International Fund no hand records sectional rating 1 2 red points Often in conjuction with the same event at an NABC Select this if the game is not held during the regular ACBL wide event NABC Fund raiser select this for NABC fund raiser GNT Fund raiser select this for Grand National Teams fund raiser Other none of the above for any fund raiser not listed above 4 Unit game ALL This displays a second pick list 1 2 3 Unit Championship when units hold special events must
25. pair number and the board number Press ESC after you answer these questions Partial change does not change the pair numbers that are displayed when you select Edit or Change Movement option However the posting scores screen for round three changes to allow correct entry see this change by using the RO command The procedure to reflect the change in the movement when pairs 10 and 1 play the entire round sitting the wrong direction is similar to partial round adjustment except the fact that you should answer N to partial round adjustment and ACBLscore changes the schedule on the screen 3 11 Movements Creating your own Let s say you want to create a 13 player individual one winner movement that consists of 13 rounds The players play 12 rounds and sit out one round Everybody follows the player with the next lower number you should have the schedule that gives the seating of the players for every round There are two ways to enter this schedule to ACBLscore which are explained below 2006 American Contract Bridge League 60 ACBLscore Help Set up a game for 4 tables 13 divided by four is 3 25 round it up to 4 When you select One winner from the movement window a list of external individual movements will be displayed Press END to move to the end of the list Select the last option Create your own one winner movement ACBLscore is going to ask you whether you will create a new movement with EDM
26. the qualifers only will be output Tag 10 to save settings Settings that will be saved include output destination tagged items and if the output is a file the location and file name If 10 is tagged you will be prompted for the name of the configuration file This saved configuration can later be used by selecting 6 Use a saved configuration as the destination If you select one of the tourn options the output will be limited to the top two or three depending on your choice pairs rank name city and state 3 2 6 1 Press release for winners A press release can be produced that has the names of the winners for any game that has overall ranks Use BUL s and select option 6 A model press release must be created with a text editor or word processor before any press release can be produced The file must be ASCII text and have the suffix PRE in the file name eg PRESS PRE ACBLscore will first ask for the location of the model press release file then look in that drive or directory and display all the files with a PRE suffix and ask you to choose one Sample of a model press release SAN FRANCISCO 1 of 2 and his her teammates won the 4 on 3 one of the major events contested at the Spring North American Bridge Championships here ACBLscore looks for the following tokens in the model PRE file and makes these substitutions 11 Player s name l2 Player s city and state 2006 American Contract Bridge Leag
27. A multi session GNT team game needs only one game file as the scores are not entered until the event is over Qualification slips can be printed from NAP games by using PCON ae You should DBADD a these special games as usual Fees and masterpoints will be included with the club s regular monthly report When you DBADD a Club or Unit level NAP game you will be given the choice of creating group codes hoz for the qualifying pairs in the data base This makes it easy to create custom reports restricted by group codes 4 of all the pairs which qualified from all the NAP games that a club holds The default group codes are nNA for Flight A nNB for Flight B and nNC for NANLM where n is the last digit of the year For example 2NB would be the group code for the 2002 2003 North American Pairs Flight B Instant matchpoint games Almost everything for setting up an instant matchpoint game is the same as that of ACBL or District wide evento One of the differences is that you should choose travelers sequence by round 2006 American Contract Bridge League 72 ACBLscore Help 3 18 4 3 18 5 number as the posting method You should choose number 8 ACBL World District Wide from the event rating list then number 4 ACBL wide Instant Matchpoints The masterpoint color is generally half red and half black for instant matchpoint events Again as in the ACBL wide events do not forget
28. At the top of this screen the title tells you what table you are currently accessing In this case it is the Clubgame table The status bar immediately below it shows that you are in Club Mode where the table you are using is located the tables name 2006 American Contract Bridge League 122 ACBLscore Help 5 2 9 5 ACBLscore Club Game Records Club D YACBLSCORICLUBGAME DAT Club 00100 Club Name Not A Club Date 00 00 0000 fal Rating fo Ho game Unsanctioned Event Name Event Code Club Session 0 Section Ia Event Session H 1 Sanction Dpen Invitational Novice jo Pair T eam Indivdual IP Boards 0 Director Game File Comment no game non club game Table Information Handicap N Seniors N Number of Strata 1 Strata Letters 9 MP Limit by Stratum O A DA 0 Tables by Stratum 00 00 sl oo Fees Special game fee code o Ho special fees Regular Fees N Sanction fee 0 00 0 0 tables 0 00 Special game fee 0 00 0 0 tables 0 00 Total ACBL Fees for this section 0 00 Local charity name of ACBL Players of non ACBL Players 0 ACBL Reports Financial In Masterpoint In Special game report printed Total Tables 0 0 F1 Help F4 View Edit Club Game Records and Linked Attendance Records F3 Return to Main Club Definition Screen F5 Create a record for a sanctioned game which
29. Average Minus N S Average Plus E W type A For other adjusted scores see Special Scoring discussed below To protect a N S score to Average Plus or better and the complementary E W score to Average Minus or less type P then the score to protect To protect a N S score to Average Minus or less and the complementary E W score to Average Plus or better type Q then the score from the N S point of view P gives the pair the matchpoints they would get for the score or Average Plus whichever is greater and Q gives the pair the matchpoints they would get for the score or Average Minus whichever is less Type P45 press Enter key to give N S the matchpoints for 450 or Average Plus whichever is better and E W the opposite score Special scoring can be used to post non complementary protected scores To assign a late play type L then press Enter key To indicate a board not played press N then press Enter key If there s any chance the board will be played later or the score reported is accidentally omitted use L rather than N ACBLscore will be happy to give you a summary of all Late Plays by using LATE a 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 35 If you re posting by pick up slips you may view the board you re entering by pressing V or the F10 key It s a good idea to view all the boards toward the end of the game Obvious posting errors will be easy to spot Special scoring
30. By Category B Code 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 139 Select B Categories restrictions juntas ALL FS Accept 5 3 12 4 7 PIF By Country Code Country Enter Country to Restrict to F2 all F3 blank F5 remove all Enter done F4 EXCLUDE the above COUNTRIES 5 3 12 4 8 PIF By District Number District number Enter District number to Restrict to F2 all F3 blank F5 remove all Enter done F4 EXCLUDE the above DISTRICT NUMBERS 2006 American Contract Bridge League 140 ACBLscore Help 5 3 12 4 9 PIF By Email Address he ct Email address restrictions Email address exists _ 5 3 12 4 10 PIF By Gender Select Genders restrictions blank Unknown M Male F Female _ 5 3 12 4 11 PIF By Last Active Local Date 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 141 Specify range for Last active local date Mt Blank Oldest Date include blank dates Oldest Date 5 1 2006 n Newest Date 5 30 2006 5 3 12 4 12 PIF By Mail Code Select Mail Codes restrictions M Mailing label printed U Address unknown _ 5 3 12 4 13 PIF By Masterpoints 2006 American Contract Bridge League 142 ACBLscore Help Selec masterppint field to test m E 2 Year to date masterpoints 3 Month to date masterpoints 4 Recent masterpoints
31. By newest games F4 By oldest games F5 unDBADDed games F8 Delete game files Event date display is OFF F10 Event date display on Eventfle name AE Mjorning A ttemoon E vening LJale A OK Cancel 67 F2 key to select Game Flles by name 2006 American Contract Bridge League 68 ACBLscore Help M E O1SWISS B O2AFT A 02AM M OSSWISS B 050301 A 050403 M 060125 E 060126 A 060406 M 1060102 E NAPFIN1 M NAPFIN2 A File menu Edit View Scores Section Es Open Ctrl O Mew NE Ctrl N E Next game file GN Ctri Right EN Prev game file GP Ctrl Left 13 Last game file LAS Ctri L Backup BA Ctrl B Unbackup UNB Printer Setup Import Export gt Exit Q Alt x World wide files WO Edit menu 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 69 3 17 3 17 1 i View Scores Section Event Re Tournament data TO Jpdate From data Dase 1 Find a player FI Ctrl F Note NO Memos ME Mames M F3 Crossover gt Carry Over CO Adjustments ADJ Strata ST Masterpoints MP Handicaps H BAM Sitouts OU Player Masterpoint holdings PI Edit Movement EDM e a Series Games See Series Winners recording MPsles1 For Series games in clubs four or more game sessions are required The masterpoint bonus to the winning player should be equal
32. Copy Delete Quit Note That some of the Menu buttons are grayed out This means those buttons are not available at this time On this screen they are not available since there are no records in this table and the only options you have are to press A to add a record press F1 key for help or to Quit The area colored Light Green is the active area Which in this case is the Club Record any modifications will be performed on the currently displayed Club Record To switch to the Sanction Record press the F2 key The Club Record must exist before you can access any Sanction Records The mode bar just above the menu bar will change to reflect where you are currently working Sanction Record Mode lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League 124 ACBLscore Help ACBLscore Club D ACBLSCOR CLUBDEF DAT Contains 1 Records Club 00100 Get Name MAC Manager Player Address City State Zip Email Unit District Type of Club jo Open Club Session fo Type o Time Stratified N Handicap IN OICLPW Open Director Event Name SESSION TYPE TIME EVENT DIRECTOR Sanction Record Mode F2 Edit Add Sanctioned Club Sessions F1 Help F3 View E dit Club Game Records and Linked Attendance Records F4 Edit ACBL Club Sanction Fees Country Prev Find Top Last Edit Add Copy Delete Quit
33. District numbers ACBLscore will find no records to match your request Please note the effectiveness of this restriction largely reflects how thoroughly and accurately you maintain your data base See PIF By District Number ss screen Email address Restricting by email address You have the choice of restricting to only those records that have an email address or to only those records that do NOT have an email address See PIF By Email Address screen Gender Selecting Gender This restriction gives you three choices blank male female Tag the ones you want to include by pressing space bar If you want to include players whose gender has not been entered into the data base select blank See PIF By Gender screen Group code Choosing Group Codes The group codes allow you to restrict your reports to a specific target Let s say you 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 149 run Supervised Play games You can mark the players who participated by assigning an SP code Later you can compile reports for those players by restricting the report to players with the SP group code If you select Group Codes as your restriction a pick list with the available group codes displayed will appear ACBLscore is asking you which groups to include Tag the codes you want the report restricted to with the space bar Use the X key to select group codes to exclude from the report Press F9
34. HAND si Enter or modify handicap scores IMP se Import from another game file Ctrl I KILL l5 Delete a section from this game file 2006 American Contract Bridge League 22 ACBLscore Help 3 2 1 LAST ss LATE ss LEAD LIST 40 LRECA MEMO 1 MPED 1 RECAP 4 Revert to last game used Ctrl L Report of late plays Section leaders F4 key List scores in pair or rank order F8 key Recap and or press to screen file printer internet Edit memos for recap Edit masterpoint awards Enter or modify player names F3 key Go to a different game file Ctrl N Edit notes for this game file Rank overall verify masterpoint awards Print recap sheet at 6 lines per inch Specify players sitting out in Board A Match Print club masterpoint or NAP qualifying receipts Enter pre determined IMP datums Event leaders with percentages Edit player masterpoint holdings bracketed events Full press sheet with cities states Cross over from a previous session Quit Alt X Print recap sheet at 8 lines per inch F5 key ROUND 4 Post from pickup slips RPRES SCORE 4 SUMM TOURN TRANS sl TS UNBAC UNDB VIEW a WHEN 1 A Print press for recap no cities states Score the game Change setup of game F9 key Display or print configuration Ctrl S 1 Display or pr
35. If a player has two records one with an ACBL number the other without merge the one without the ACBL number into the one with the ACBL number To do so bring up the record with the ACBL number press F8 key and follow the steps that are previously described Screens Attendance Records At the top of this screen the title tells you what table you are currently accessing In this case it is the Attend table The status bar immediately below it shows that you are in Club Mode where the table you are using is located the tables name and how many records are in it 2006 American Contract Bridge League 104 ACBLscore Help ACRLscore Attendance Records Sag ub D ACBLSCOR ATTEND DAT Contains 0 Records Last Name Doe First Name John Rec 1 Game Link No Link EVENT MP Session _ Section Color Black Type E MPs Percent Stratum E Direction E H S or one winner Pai E Rank E l E Boards DATE SANCTION NO SESSION MPs COLOR PERCENT CODE NAME ul F4 Retum to Main Player Information F1 Help F7 Print Attendance Records Next Prey Find Top Last Delete Quit Note That some of the Menu buttons are grayed out This means those buttons are not available at this time On this screen they are not available since there are no records in this table and the only options you have are to press F4 key to return to the Main Player Inform
36. ND NE NH NJ NM Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Massachusetts Maryland Maine Marshall Islands Michigan Minnesota Missouri Northern Mariana Islands Mississippi Montana North Carolina North Dakota Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico NV NY OH OR PA PR SC SD UT VA VI VT WA WI WV WY Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Virgin Islands Vermont Washington Wisconsin West Virginia Wyoming 2006 American Contract Bridge League 184 ACBLscore Help 10 10 1 Tournament Result Reporting These topics are intended for tournament directors The topics below cover all aspects of data handling in the reporting of tournament results to the ACBL Checklist of Mandatory Procedures les Other available topics Reinitializing data base ei Setting up a new tournament ed Entering events in data base heal DBADDing events lee Processing corrections hei Transferring data base event names back to game files 4 Adding player number to existing non member player record hel Merging non members iso Generating Memphis Masterpoint Report ies Creating Data Files for Memphis and for Archive ke back up Augmenting tournament data base kes with information from the player file the typing data base Generating specialized masterpoint lists weg Viewi
37. Posting entry al for further details LEAD F4 key LEAD produces a report of all pairs scores in the section or combined sections in score order This report can be displayed on the screen or sent to the printer Next to last round leader sheets are popular with the players and gives the director some breathing room as the players examine the scores Contrast LEAD with LIST 1 LIST F8 key LIST produces a report of scores for all pairs in a section or combined sections in pair number or rank order N S first The report can be displayed on the screen or sent to the printer The list is suitable for posting in a book as a record of the final scores Contrast LIST with LEAD 01 LRECA Use LRECA to display save to file or print the recap and or press with options The output options are Screen Text file printer or HTML You can produce just the recap board scores and matchpoints only Press only regular or short recap with regular or short press and recap with list If you save to a file you will be asked where to save it and give it a name If saving to a file or screen you will be asked to specify the maximum report line width in characters The default width will include all elements of the report If the width is reduced the press may not include all elements or take more lines Also the recap may be split into 2 or more parts MEMO MEMO attaches up to six lines of text to a recap sheet The messages can explain
38. Sometimes it s necessary to enter scores that don t balance like Average for one side and Average Plus for the other To enter such scores press S or then press Enter key For example N S get Average minus and E W get 140 is entered S ACBLscore will then ask for the N S score entered A then the E W score entered 14 press Enter key Note in this case the E W score is entered from their point of view You may also assign specific matchpoints to a pair on a board Let s say you want N S to be plus 620 and give E W 5 matchpoints Type S then press Enter key and for N S type 62 press Enter key and for E W type m5 press Enter key Negative matchpoints can only be assigned in IMP events and the maximum number of matchpoints you may assign on a board is 100 unless the event is scored by Instant Matchpoints if top is 1000 or Total Imps In those cases you may assign up to 1000 matchpoints Remember if someone goes to the wrong table you may need to EDMOV s i the game 3 2 19 EVENT F6 Key EVENT allows you to rank all sections of your game ACBLscore will ask how many overall places to go and after scoring the game will display the event leaders on the screen or print those results The scores will reflect any score adjustments or carryover If the game is stratified leaders for each stratum will be listed to the depth requested If the game is handicapped two sets of overalls will be created one with the handicaps an
39. Viewing by event In general it is easier to research attendance records by player see above than by event NOO RON Select Data Base Select Tournament Setup Use F for FIND use arrow keys to choose event to be researched Select F3 key to view attendance records linked to the chosen event Use F for FIND use arrow keys to choose player to be researched After viewing information Select F3 key to return to Tournament Setup Select F4 key to view overall rank records linked to the chosen event repeat steps 4 through 6 2006 American Contract Bridge League 196 ACBLscore Help Index A ACBL Handbook 171 ACBL masterpoint file Import 162 ACBL Monthly Reports 17 ACBL Player Information File import 162 ACBL Player Number File 126 export 126 ACBLscore 9 ACBLscore Data Base backup import 162 ACBLscore Manual 171 Add Group Codes based on Player Number file 153 Allow edit of names in Game File 167 Another ACBLscore Data Base import 163 Attendance 99 Attendance reports 126 B Backup 176 Backup and Delete Game Files 177 Backup Data Base 177 Backup data base archive 177 Backup Game Files 177 Backup Game Files Selective 178 Backup Restore 176 C Canadian Province Codes 180 Club Mode 168 Club Setup 113 Club Setup Attendance Records 114 adding 114 editing 115 Club Setup Club game records 114 Club Setup Club information 115 edit 115 Club Setup
40. a player s Total masterpoints press F9 key after entering the correct amount To correct errors re edit masterpoints by using F2 key 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 103 5 1 7 5 1 9 5 1 9 1 Find a player You may search for a player by name or by ACBL player number To change the search key press the F2 key Type the first few letters of the player s name If only one match is found that record will be displayed If more than one matching record is found all matching names will be displayed You may page down or use the arrow keys to select a player If no matching name is found a special message will appear Merging players To merge multiple occurances of the same player in your data base select Data Base then Update Find and use the following procedure Press F for find type the first few letters of the players last name choose one of his her records and press Enter key Then press F8 key ACBLscore will bring up a window with the following message This procedure will move attendance and percentage records to the player currently displayed from other selected players who do not have an ACBL number Continue Y N Press Enter key to continue A small window will ask you to enter the last name of the player that has more than one record Type the last name Then tag the records to merge from the list that is displayed on the screen and press F9 key when done
41. be displayed There will also be a table of N S pair numbers their scores and the E W pairs with whom they played ACBLscore at the bottom of the screen is asking you whether you want to see the next board If you continue to inspect the scores ACBLscore will return back to the ACBLscore Scoring System screen after the last board VIEW will not let you change any score However if you see a mistake you can use BOARD si to correct it WORLD Use this command to create files for transfer via the internet to the World Bridge Federation WBF for world wide matchpointing and ranking The world wide simultaneous pairs in June is eligible 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 49 First complete the on screen form for information about your world wide game The WBF session number is very important and must agree with the session number supplied with the kit from ACBL and WBF It is different for each day Eg WBF session number for the Friday game is different from the Saturday game Important Club Name and Contact Phone are used to uniquely identify your club If results are re sent because of corrections it is important that Club Name and Contact Phone remain the same otherwise your club will be listed more than once on the WBF web page 3 2 66 WHEN WHEN displays the ACBLscore version number that created the current game file Also the creation date and time will be displayed If the game file
42. be sanctioned by ACBL reports and sanction fees to ACBL Unit Charity sectional rating Sponsored by the Unit and sanctioned by ACBL Unit wide Championship multi site unit game with only one set of overall ranks across all sites Sanctioned by ACBL with reports and sanction fees to ACBL lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Game 55 4 Club Appreciation game a Unit Championship rated game that can be held during the month of October 5 North American Pairs or Teams o Club or Unit level This displays a second 1 2 pick list North American Pairs Club level sectional rating 1 2 red NAP Club qualifying stage held during June July and August North American Pairs Unit level sectional rating red or gold red Unit final of the NAP qualifying to District final Grand National Teams Club level sectional rated 1 2 red GNT Club qualifying stage Grand National Teams Unit level sectional rated red or gold red Unit final of the GNT qualifying to District final North American 49er Pairs Club level sectional rating and restricted to players with under 50 masterpoints Held during September 6 Canadian Events ALL This displays a second pick list 1 2 3 Canada wide Olympiad Fund Annual sectional rated event for Canadian clubs Funds go to Canadian Olympiad Fund Rookie Master Annual 80 Unit championship rated event held in Cana
43. constant development with new features and enhancements being added continuously In order to make the users of the new versions of ACBLscore aware of the features that have been added New Features option is included under Help New of the Main Menu The features that have been added since version 5 00 are listed and briefly explained under this option A table of contents of the new features is included for two reasons one to provide a summary of the available information and two to provide easier access to the feature of your choice At the right side the page number of the item is shown You can use the arrow keys or PgDn PgUp to scroll through the table You can also press the first letter of the item you want to select to skip the other items To view the explanation of the feature press Enter after you highlight it If you are looking for a specific feature press F2 key for find A small window will ask for the text to find This text will be searched in the table of contents and if found that item will be highlighted if not you will be informed as such Even though the text you entered is found if that feature is not what you are looking for you can press F3 key to repeat the search process on the remaining table of contents Find Ctrl F also works when you are viewing a new feature When you press Ctrl F a pop up box appears Type the words you are looking for If ACBLscore finds a match the screen will shift so that the li
44. exit A m 1 Backup Data Base 2 Backup Game files 3 Restore Data Base 4 Restore Game files 5 Backup and Delete Game files 6 Backup Game files selective 7 Backup Data Base Archive 8 Restore Data Base Archive 9 Import from a Data Base Backup Cancel Help Backup and Delete Game Files Same as Backup Game Files 4 If the game files were successfuly backed up they will be deleted from your hard drive If the back up was not successful insufficient disk space or other errors with the back up diskette the game files will NOT be deleted Backup Data Base Make sure that you have a diskette with enough space on it to back up the data base About 25 of the space occupied by the files PLAYERN DAT and ATTEND DAT is enough Take note of the file name that the data base is backed up on your diskette DB followed by today s date and LZH Restore Data Base vg will request the date part of the file name if you need to restore the data base Backup data base archive This is part of the procedure for purging old data base records See Purge old Club Game and connected attendance records ss Backup Game Files You will be prompted for a date mask to select games to back up The format of this mask is YYMMDD using a as a wildcard For example 03121 would include all game files from December 10 2003 to December 19 2003 0203 will include all game files for the month of March 2002 2006 American Contr
45. financial report DBADD has the capacity to recognize a game that has already been updated and will substitute current information for the outdated data You may also update games that were manually scored See Manually scored games If you have more than one event you will be asked if you wish to update all events 2006 American Contract Bridge League 30 ACBLscore Help 3 2 14 3 2 14 1 or the current event EDMOV EDMOVE allows you to fix any of the following problems boards out of sequence in the game wrong pairs played boards either by going to the wrong table in a Mitchell movement or sitting in the wrong direction in a Howell or changing a pair s number When you initiate EDMOV you will be given the following options 1 Display or reassign board sequencing s 2 Display or change movement 3 Print guide cards 4 Save as a movement file 2 5 Display or reassign pair numbers ar 6 Add an appendix table or pair se See Movement errors sel for examples and detailed help Option 1 permits you to reassign the board numbers if the boards are out of sequence or certain board numbers are omitted Option 2 provides a spreadsheet summary of which pairs are at which tables for each round and what boards they will play You may change specific information e g on round 3 at table 4 N S 4 played board 9 against pair 2 not pair 1 or add a constant for each pair
46. for all players or for selected categories and may limit the number of players listed You may choose a title for the report which will be sent to the printer screen or a Text file Players love to see their names posted By producing masterpoint lists you can display the players within particular categories that have won the greatest number of points over a specified period Players will feel a sense of accomplishment and pride and you will even stimulate people to play more to see their name rise on the list ACBLscore will first ask which masterpoint field to use Grand Total Year to Date Month to Date Recent you can control the duration by resetting the masterpoint counter ss to zero or specific club sessions The final category allows you to run Friday Afternoon Player of the Month or Week or Year if you wish You will be asked if you want to limit the size of the report Unless you know the number of players involved is small fewer than 100 it s sensible to limit the number Next you can choose to have the list in alphabetical order so players can easily find 2006 American Contract Bridge League 130 ACBLscore Help 5 3 8 5 3 9 themselves or by masterpoints so players can see who s doing well and who s ahead of them If you want to include all players you may or you can specify the Selection Parameters After sifting through the data base you will be asked to give the report a
47. for masterpoints and change number of strata 11 Assign change show STRATA letters field sizes allows you to display or modify stratification parameters To change number of strata select 10 Set masterpoint rating 12 Clear all names from this section allows you to delete all pairs You might want to use this option say if you crossed over from a wrong file in a multi session event Before clearing ACBLscore requests your confirmation 13 Specify average of manual scores entered via ADJ allows you to indicate the average score for the game whose scores are entered manually so that percentages can be calculated 14 Overall or session rank status allows you to include exclude overall ranks or 2006 American Contract Bridge League 46 ACBLscore Help 3 2 53 1 3 2 54 session ranks on the press recap or when DBADDing ESCape will allow you to exit Qualification Eligibility SET option 4 Qualification eligibility options 1 Qualification based on section fields 2 Qualification based on overall rank 3 Specify Qual ineligibility and Manual Qs 4 Specify overall and session rank ineligibility 5 Disable qualification Options 1 and 2 allow you to set the number of pairs to be qualified On the window that appears when you select option 1 there will be number of pairs in the N S direction and next to it the default number of pairs to be qualified If you set this number to
48. iain aiian 69 TE 70 ACBL and District wide QAMES erect ereriiceeeu errare ntuuc cn seceeaencestesdesseectcsinastacecescescerseuvcusstesdeceuvstecees 70 GNT and NAP evens oiiae c e 71 Instant matchpoint QaMES PEL 71 SUMMON TUNG Pure 72 Sectional tournament at clubs a 72 Unit games P 73 Stratified EVENS nie AER AE A A A 74 Team Game How to set Up isnniininnnnnnenennnnnnnnnenneneennenennnnennnenennenennes 74 PEro ane aT a 74 Board A Match team S a a DEENEN aa aaa EENEG 75 Knockout teams Round Robin teams SWISS teams c general Optio NS nis tn endroit Er m rr n EA HEX EO EE d c rd e E REL NH rr i ELE ER et ME en RT E 78 Pairing Screen Specify options Swiss team pairing algOritliimi E 81 Swiss team pairing by Computer iieri aaora iaiia raa SERE Ce aires annee o Eia Nr arte Ce Ne IEEE 83 ILES Y 83 Knockout ue n e ioci eco cds caddie tapa cra siatdaassscende EHE lente semis EERAR ERREUR REOR BARRE LARA EET FR RAE EREM ARR ES RAP ASADA 84 Mictorypolrit pOSIDIQ Kure EE 84 Win Eoss posting entry cicer cr der ce co rr s ret e Ea x a EXER RE
49. in manually scored games Since Add will assign a game on file you must create the game file first Use the Club Setup utility to add the game record To save the newly created attendance record press the F9 key To return to the Main Player record press F4 key View or edit percentages Using F5 key to view and edit percentages F5 key allows you to view a player s history of percentages achieved with associated information about the game in which the percentages were earned To examine the details of the game in which percentages were earned use the Up and Down arrow keys or P for Previous or N for Next To change information for a percentage record type E for Edit To save the changes press the F9 key To abort editing press the Escape key To create a new percentage record for the player use Add and enter the requested information To remove a percentage record use Delete To return to the Main Player record press F5 key 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 113 5 2 5 2 1 Club Setup Identifies sanctioned club sessions and restrictions Used either to initiate information or to add a new session Each record in the club data base lists information about a club franchise If only one club franchise is served by this ACBLscore program only one club record need be created Among the information found on a club is the club number name information about the club m
50. more of the sections Change sl to the section that needs factoring then use SET 4 F9 key and select option 6 Factor to a different average Answer Y yes to the question about factoring then enter the desired new average that scores will be factored to Game Commands ADD z Add a new section Ctrl A ADJ sl Outside score adjustment AREP Print ACBL report for a special game BACK las Copy current game file to floppy Ctrl B DBADD Rl l Display a board F10 key Produce output for bulletin Print display captains for team games 1 Event configuration 2 Combined scoring setup 3 Multiple team events results entry config 4 Update event data from tournament data base Compute carry over scores from qualifying sessions Change to another section F7 key Down Up Enter or modify carryover scores Extract final scores for continuous pairs 29 Update Data Base from game file Ctrl D EDMOV Edit Movement 8j EX 35 Edit previous session crossovers l2 Edit next session crossovers Scan all sections for player MP eligibility Enter or correct scores F2 key Event leaders F6 key Export to another game file FIND s Finda player or verify player eligibility FOUL s Use fouled board procedure FREQ s Frequency charts or datums GNEXT 1 Next game file in alphabetic order CTRL Right GPREV Previous game file in alphabetic order CTRL Left
51. of tables posted rounds event number and type 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 47 3 2 55 3 2 56 3 2 57 3 2 58 3 2 59 SHXOV Use SHXOV to display or print a table of all filled in destinations after using EDXOV 1 Duplicate assignments have an asterisk beside the table number and unassigned locations are blank SPRES SPRES allows you to print short press sheet with both N S and E W on one page It is very similar to PRESS with one exception SPRES does not print the city and state of the players See RPRES a for double spaced short press or PRESS for full press with cities and states STRAT Invoking STRAT will allow you to assign strata to the pairs in the section You may enter strata sequentially by pressing the F6 key or use the arrow keys and select the pairs to designate by pressing Enter key Pressing the F9 key will save the information If the section is manually scored you can use STRAT to also specify stratum field sizes You would want to do this if you entered only the names and scores for the players which ranked Useful for the DIC of a STAC for reports from clubs which do not use ACBLscore SUMM SUMM allows you to produce a summary of a pairs game The summary will list the players names their pair number the date club number and name and will indicate the boards they played the vulnerability result and matchpoint score for each board At
52. options 2 3 4 or 5 allow you to move around the spreadsheet representation of the game Option 6 allows you to save the changes you ve made If you ve created a movement that seems unwise ACBLscore will tell you whether pairs are playing other pairs twice or much worse playing the same boards twice To add or subtract a number from the E W pairs from a certain round on use option 7 Note ACBLscore will not create new pair numbers If you have fifteen E W pairs and you add three to each pair number the 13 becomes 1 not 16 To create new pair numbers use option 5 in the main EDMOV menu To add or subtract a number from the board numbers from a specific round on use option 8 As with the E W pair numbers ACBLscore will not create new boards If you have 30 boards in play and you tell ACBLscore to add 10 to each board number 23 becomes 3 not 33 To change the sequencing of boards use option 1 in the main EDMOV menu If you wish to edit the details of a specific encounter e g who plays at table 3 on round 4 use option 9 After telling ACBLscore what table for which round you may make a partial round adjustment If the wrong pair sat down at the table and completed a board you ll tell the computer that E W 13 rather than 12 played that board To edit cells in a row use option 10 This command is useful if you re running a Scrambled Mitchell You ll be able to go to table 1 for the specified round and edit each table in turn Not
53. or to mark a pair as ineligible for overall or session ranks 5 Change movement parameters permits you to redefine the game including the number of tables boards movement used and starting positions 6 Factor to a different average e if sections in the same event are playing with different averages factoring allows for comparison among the sections 7 Set tie breaking spread the default tie break spread is 01 points You may change that range ACBLscore will remind you that the new range is not ACBL approved 8 Select handicap games enables the handicap option which allows less experienced players to compete for masterpoints more readily 9 Change scoring method ACBLscore can score your game by 1 matchpoints 2 IMPs against a datum obtained by discarding a small number of extreme results and taking the average arithmetic mean of the remaining score 3 average IMPs comparing a result against each other result you may limit the size of swings and dividing by the number of comparisons 4 total IMPs like average IMPs but not divided by the number of comparisons 5 Instant Matchpoints Just add water well actually ACBLscore will expect to find a file with the Instant Matchpoints the ACBL will send you the files or 6 IMPs with predetermined datum like IMPs against a datum except you input the datums via PDAT instead of being calculated 10 Set masterpoint ratings allows you to specify rating of game
54. overalls If an unrestricted STAC event is to receive credit for the tables of a separate limited masterpoint STAC event masterpoint awards will have to be set F9 key Option 10 Rank the event and check the results against earlier rankings done when the clubs reported by phone 10 Once the game files are complete DBADD the results in the usual manner Tournament reporting to Memphis is the same for a STAC as for any other tournament Sample Instructions for STAC DICs to send to Club Managers 1 Continue to use Club Mode for STACS Do not switch to Tournament Mode In defining the specific parameters of your game you must a Enter stratification limits accurately b Choose Option 9 Sectional Tournament at Clubs for the game rating c Choose the proper event restrictions usually 0 Restrictions Open Game d Choose the proper status usually 1 Championship e Answer Y to the question Is this a multi site event for any event with overalls across more than one club f Enter the sanction and event code provided by the DIC 2 When a game with multiple sites is scored and the recaps printed only the session ranks will appear There are no overalls for your site only 3 Backup your game files on disk for delivery to the DIC Transferring data base event names back to game files This procedure is designed to produce a more professional Bulletin output by making the style of event names abbreviations etc cons
55. overalls game file b Make the correction in the appropriate game file c ReDBADD all sessions of the Continuous Pairs event d Reprocess the overalls reDBADD the overalls See Continuous Pairs processing e 10 15 Reinitializing data base Be certain that any existing data from an earlier tournament has been properly preserved before proceeding 1 Select DATA BASE 2 Select MAINTENANCE 2006 American Contract Bridge League ACBLscore Help 192 10 16 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 17 3 Select 7 REINITIALIZE DATA BASE 4 Select 6 REINITIALIZE ENTIRE DATA BASE 5 Confirm Y or N Setting up a new tournament Start each tournament with a fresh data base See Backing up a previous tournament is and Reinitializing data base s as needed The only time more than one tournament should be set up in a data base is when a Sectional is concurrent with a Seniors or Limited MP Regional or when a GNT or NAP event is concurrent with another tournament Select DATA BASE Select TOURNAMENT SETUP Select A to add new tournament Enter exact sanction no hyphens or spaces Enter tournament name and dates Enter Tournament City Edit Mnemonic if desired Mnemonic is the tournament identification that appears on the players point award card Default is the first seven letters of the city It may be edited to a clearer abbreviation if desired Keep in mind in choosing a mnemonic th
56. shows the second opponent s team number Teams that are in the round robin have a number in this column To indicate that a team has a bye this round enter 888 as the team s opponent Several functions as shown on the bottom of the screen are available F2 key Pair teams Pairs the teams according to the specified option 1 Out of range posted teams only Will pair any teams whose record is higher or lower than any possible result from unposted teams 2 As many posted as possible using tolerance settings Will pair any out of range teams and within range teams using matching tolerance settings See Swiss team pairing algorithm si 3 All teams includes unposted Use this to pair one round ahead F3 key Match RR To pair a round robin press F3 key and you will be able to enter the 2nd opponent To create a short 1 round RR press F3 key again F4 key Sort by Matches Sorts the display in match order All teams do not need to be paired or posted This is the way ACBLscore pairs the teams internally See airing algorithm e F5 key Switch to results posting screen for this or the previous round F8 key Table assignments only Goes into sequential entry and allows you to enter the table assignments for paired teams Use this to enter table assignments from the rack Press F6 key to end sequential entry F10 key Undo Undoes the pairing for the highlighted team and its opponent s Alt F2 key ie Displays a pick list of
57. so that the line that has the text will be placed at the top of the screen To print the explanations of the topic press F7 key when you are at the index screen F7 key will print the entire page or pages that your selection is on 2006 American Contract Bridge League 176 ACBLscore Help 8 8 1 Utilities The Utilities menu has the following items Masterpoint Charts hs Back up Restore is Copy game files zs Masterpoint Charts x Th Copy Game Files HE Swiss Grid KO Bkt Sheet Backup Restore Game and Data Base files should be backed up on a regular basis The back up procedure implemented by ACBLscore requires the use of a diskette in drive A or B in your computer LHA is used to compress the backed up files to conserve diskette space You will find that both the Data Base and game files compress by about 80 A Club that runs 14 sessions a week should be able to back up all game files for one month on a single diskette The following options are available in the back up Restore menu Backup Data Base m Backup Game Files h77 Restore Data Base 7s Restore Game Files ha Backup and Delete Game Files L Backup Game Files Selective ha Backup data base archive EI Restore data base archives isl Import from Data Base backup es D IB OM OD SP m IT 2006 American Contract Bridge League Utilities 177 Select fupction ESC to
58. space Old attendance records are an unnecessary burden on your computer s memory By regular maintenance of deleting the oldest ones you can make sure you will have the memory you need for today s and tomorrow s games The process of purging old attendance records is very similar to the process given in Purge old Club Game and attendance records ss Before deleting records the utility will suggest backing up the data base If you delete the attendance records without the benefit of back up and you subsequently need them e g you need to reproduce a monthly masterpoint report you will have to rely upon other archives ACBLscore 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 155 will request the earliest date of attendance records you wish to preserve and will delete all attendance records before the specified date you have provided Then it warns you that all necessary ACBL reports should have been done Next question is whether you want to save attendance records to archive ACBLscore gives you the name of the archive file to be created and warns you to back it up You will be informed about the number of records read and deleted Press any key to continue Next you will be looking at the 8 options of maintenance If you want to back up the file press ESC Press Enter to the question which asks whether you want to back up the archive files from diskette A new window that asks you to select archive to back u
59. specialized masterpoint lists siennes 189 Ces Em 189 Merging Data Bases E 190 Merging ek E le CTT 190 Processing Gorterllong eesgegeggskteeer 191 Heinitializing data base erri EE Eed 191 Setting up a new tournament eeeeeeeeeiies esses seen e nenne ante nnnm ann tn tnit nna s sani mannanna nnna 192 STAC processing by DIC in ssnissnnrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnenennnennenennnnnennenense 192 Transferring data base event names back to game files sees 194 Viewing attendance records in essen eene nennen nnne nennen nennen 194 Index 196 2006 American Contract Bridge League ACBLscore 9 1 ACBLscore The ACBLscore Main Menu is the doorway to all the program s features Welcome to ACBLscore This program is authorized for use only as shown and agreed on the ACBLscore registration form Copyright c 1991 American Contract Bridge League This program and if applicable the accompanying player information file collectively the software and related documentation are proprietary products of American Contract Bridge League which are protected by Copyright Laws and International Treaty This Software and the related documentation and written material may not be decompiled disassembled reverse engineered copied transferred or incorporated into any information retr
60. starts with the first two digits 94 You can make the selection process as broad or as precise as you wish When you have finished selecting Postal Zip Codes press the Enter key If you do not select any Zip Codes before pressing Enter the program will find no matching records To get the most out of this command be thorough in updating player 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 151 information See PIF By Zip Code 4 screen 5 3 13 15 Starting date Restricting by Starting Date You will be able to restrict the starting date within a range of dates If you wish to have no limit on the oldest starting date blank out the date with the space bar Starting date indicates when the player was added to your data base 5 3 13 16 State province Selecting State Province Another selection criteria is state province If you need to include players from one or more states or provinces you can use this option After entering the first state press Enter and enter the next one When you are done press Enter See PIF By State or Province l2 Screen 5 3 13 17 Unit number Restricting by Unit Numbers This option will allow you to choose players from specific units As you select the Unit numbers they will be displayed under the heading SELECTED UNIT NUMBERS When you are finished press Enter key If you press Enter key without entering any Unit numbers ACBLscore will find no records to
61. the bottom will appear their total score percentage section and overall rank if appropriate and masterpoints won if any You can produce summaries for all pairs in a section or for specific pairs It s an effective low cost way of treating your beginners well TOURN TOURN allows you to edit the Event name session date director Club number and Club Name for a game 2006 American Contract Bridge League 48 ACBLscore Help 3 2 60 3 2 61 3 2 62 3 2 63 3 2 64 3 2 65 TRANS TRANS allows you to transfer names that were typed in a different game file or to update the tournament data base with players from the current game file For use in TOURNAMENT mode only TS TS will display or print or save to a file the scores and matchpoints for boards in traveler format with pair numbers and names UNBAC UNBAC allows you to restore a Backed up zs or exported ss game file For use in TOURNAMENT mode only UNDB Ctrl U UNDB undoes what DBADD s does Use UNDB only if ACBLscore asks you to DBADDing a game disables some functions to maintain integrity with the data base Use UNDB after DBADDing only if you need to change the section letter rename the game file set masterpoints or use the TOURNI 7 command VIEW VIEW allows you to view the scores To check the scores board by board use VIEW Enter the board number A screen with the board number and vulnerability at the top will
62. the top and bottom score before pairing them is considered If 2 stationary teams meet the above criteria and are considered for pairing ACBLscore will ask confirmation The 60 value is a configuration option If a stationary team is considered for the round robin confirmation will be asked Swiss team pairing by computer ACBLscore can be used to pair teams When setting up a Swiss event select Swiss Pairing by computer from the pairing and posting option box Teams will automatically be paired for the first round 1 vs 2 3 vs 4 5 vs 6 etc The last 3 teams will be assigned to the round robin for an odd number of teams To change pairing options for the event see F10 key Specify general options Fr from the Match results screen To post team results Press F2 key and use the Match results screen 1 If gaps or missing teams fix this in the usual way The 1st round pairing may no longer be correct Press F2 key ENTER command and select 2 Pairing Screen ze and re pair the 1st round as appropriate To pair teams 1 round ahead for example pair the teams for round 2 before round 1 results are in Use the ROUND command al Specify the round number that you wish to pair 2 in the above example and select the Pairing Screen ze Press F2 key and select 3 All teams to match all teams After a round is posted use LEAD F4 key to print a leader chart in pairing order This shows the score team number and captain s name
63. three months for each sanctioned game Upgraded Club Championship sectionally rated a reward for bountiful membership harvesting reports to ACBL Charity Club Championship large masterpoint awards run for charity either the ACBL s Charity of the Year for the first mandatory or one of your choosing for the second optional per year you must send in a report of moneys collected International Fund Club Championship large masterpoints reports and funds to ACBL Inter Club Championship two or more clubs can host a Club Championship at the same time One set of overall for all participating clubs Must be sanctioned by the ACBL Section awards with monthly report and overall awards issued by ACBL 2006 American Contract Bridge League 54 ACBLscore Help Super Club Championship a club has to meet certain requirements to hold a Super Club Championship Sectionally rated with red points for overall Club Appreciation game a Unit Championship rated game that can be held during the month of October Club Appreciation Team game Sectionally rated team game with 5 gold that can be held in October 3 Fund Charity International Junior etc This displays a second pick list 1 10 11 12 13 Charity Club Championship large masterpoint awards run for charity either the ACBL s Charity of the Year for the first mandatory or one of your choosing for the second
64. to attach the 9999 event to the other sections with the correct event code Note that the game file will permit multiple sections with the same section letter The program differentiates these sections by the club ID The club ID and club name appear on the screen with the section letter 7 ADD any sections from manually scored clubs From the Select Movement box choose Manually scored When prompted enter the average on which the scores were achieved Enter names strats and total scores in the usual manner If scores are unavailable you can enter percentages instead specify an average of 50 for such sections No matter what averages you may have specified for various sections you can still specify a different factored average for the entire event using F9 key Option 6 8 In stratified or masterpoint limited events use ELIG to check the eligibility of the players stratification as provided by the club Make changes as appropriate It is a good idea to notify the club manager of any strat change that results in changes in 2006 American Contract Bridge League 194 ACBLscore Help 10 18 10 19 masterpoints earned particularly if unofficial overall results were given to the club manager on the day of the event 9 n general it is not necessary to specify the number of tables before importing club files The program will count the tables including the tables in each strat and calculate the
65. was created by a version older than 3 60 the version number will be unknown 3 2 67 XOV XOV allows you to cross over from a previous session After you use EDXOV si to edit crossovers use XOV to transfer the player names and scores in multi session events See Multi session games ei for details You will see the message Report of missing names holes in the current game file and possibly a list of locations section table direction that are empty as a result of the cross over This may be caused by errors in cross over assignments in the previous session or pairs that were 99ed one session or the second session game is larger If there are errors correct any of them in the previous session game file using EDXOV sel return to the second session game file and cross over again Enter the names a for any players that participate only in the second session 3 3 Game Setup Steps Following are the steps you may want to follow from ACBLscore perspective when directing a game 1 Set up the game with ADD 21 Ctrl A 2 Correct any mistakes that have been made at step 1 with SET 4 or F9 key or delete the section sl 3 Enter player names with NAMES 1 F3 key 4 Post the scores with ENTER s F2 key 5 Review the scores for mistakes with VIEW s 6 Print the results with RECAP a F5 key 7 Print summary results for those who want with SUMM Da 8 Update the data base with DBADD 2 Ctrl D
66. within range These top teams will be subject to perfect pairing while other lower teams will be paired using matching tolerance values 2 values are required 2nd round and last round The percent top teams for any given round is calculated from these 2 values A value of 10096 will result in perfect pairing for all teams same as pairing option 1 096 will result in using matching tolerance for all teams Default values are 0 for the 2nd round and 40 for the last round Announce new pairings to screen and printer Allows you to specify where new pairings are to be displayed Announce match results to screen and printer Allows you to specify where match results are to be displayed Default section letter for table assignments This is the section letter that will be used when only a table number is entered It is initialized to be the same as the event letter when the event was first set up If the default letter is non blank and a table number is entered for a match assignment with a letter that is different from the default you will be asked if the default letter should be changed to match the new letter If the default letter is blank you will not be asked if the default letter should be changed when a match table assignment is entered Ask confirmation for teams to be sent to RR more than once Answer Y es to ask for confirmation when a team that has already been in the round robin is considered to be sent to the round robin again
67. zero the eligibility feature will be turned off no pair will be qualified These explanations apply for E W direction as well In option two the directions are not separated qualification is based on the overall rank Use option 3 to specify pairs that are not eligible to qualify fill in pairs in NAP events zl or to manually qualify pairs Use Y to mark a pair as eligible for qualification the default N to mark a pair as not eligible and Q to manually qualify Use option 4 to mark pairs that are not eligible for overall or session ranks Use Y to mark a pair as eligible for both overall and session ranks the default N to mark a pair as not eligible for any ranks S to mark a pair as eligible for session ranks but not for overall D to mark a pair as eligible for session ranks but not for overall In addition if D is specified and that pair has a session rank some other eligible pair will also rank the same position double session rank Double session ranks should be enabled for the pair that is not eligible to play in an event because of reasons other than masterpoint restriction For example if a pair that is not eligible to play in a women s event because of their gender plays to make the number of tables full their double session ranks should be enabled D Use option 5 to disble qualification SHOW Cirl S SHOW allows you to display or print configuration which includes the computer position section letter number
68. 12 12 tables 12 rounds Irregular Mitchell Rounds 1 6 Boards 1 12 circulate on tables 1 6 with boards from table 1 going to 6 Boards 13 24 circulate on tables 7 12 Rounds 6 12 Boards 1 12 circulate on tables 7 12 and boards 13 24 circulate on tables 1 6 52 64 players 1326 13 tables 13 rounds of 2 boards South and East switch positions to play the second board of each round Computer set up for 26 rounds and 26 boards in play 1413 14 tables 13 rounds Appendix The highest set of boards 27 28 for 2 board round is stationary on table 14 Boards move normally for the other 13 tables going from table 1 to table 13 No player rotation Use S1426 for player rotation 1426 14 tables 13 rounds Appendix rainbow The highest set of boards 27 28 2006 American Contract Bridge League Movements 95 for 2 board round is stationary on table 14 Boards move normally for the other 13 tables going from table 1 to table 13 South and East switch positions to play the second board of each round Computer set up for 26 rounds and 28 boards in play R1512 15 tables 12 rounds R1512HR 15 tables 12 rounds with hand records Duplicate normally Boards 1 2 on table 1 players 1 1 1 1 e After duplication special move 1 S 1 E 1 W 2 Bds 1 e After round 1 and all normal moves S 1 E 2 W 2 Bds 1 e After round 5 special move 2 S 1 E 3 W 3 Bds 1 e After round 6 norma
69. 12 9 Board relay 12 11 Board relay 13 13 May be curtailed 14 13 Board relay 15 13 Board relay 15 15 May be curtailed 16 13 Board relay 16 15 Board relay 17 17 May be curtailed 18 13 Board relay 18 17 Board relay 4 2 2 Complete In a complete Howell movement all competing pairs play all other pairs in one session This movement has one stationary pair Available Complete movements 3 5 Official ACBL Boards do not move in a regular order 4 7 Official ACBL 2 bye stands 5 9 Official ACBL 6 11 2 bye stands 7 13 Official ACBL 8 15 3 bye stands 9 17 2006 American Contract Bridge League 90 ACBLscore Help 10 19 2 bye stands 11 21 12 23 2 bye stands 13 25 4 2 3 Three Quarter A Three quarter Howell movement does not require all pairs to play all other pairs This movement has more than one stationary pair Available three quarter movements 3 4 4 5 4 6 5 6 5 7 5 8 6 7 6 8 6 9 6 10 7 8 7 9 7 10 7 11 7 12 8 9 8 10 8 11 8 12 8 13 8 14 9 10 9 11 9 12 9 13 9 14 9 15 9 16 10 11 10 12 10 13 10 14 10 15 10 16 10 17 10 18 2 bye stands Board relay Board relay Boards do not move in a regular order 2 bye stands 2 bye stands Board relay 2 bye stands Board relay Official ACBL 3 bye stands 2 bye stands Official ACBL 2 bye stands Official ACBL Board relay Official ACBL 4 bye stands 2006 American Contract Bridg
70. 14 Skip after round 8 16 15 Skip after round 8 17 12 17 13 17 14 17 15 17 16 17 17 18 12 Skip after round 9 18 13 Skip after round 9 18 14 Skip after round 9 18 15 Skip after round 9 18 16 Skip after round 9 18 17 Skip after round 9 4 4 4 About Rover Movements In Rover movements a game with 9 1 2 tables is set up as though it were a nine table game The extra pair sits out the first round and then moves from table to table according to a guide card you can produce by using EDMOV The roving pair takes a number one greater than the highest table in the game Rover movements are desirable because all the boards get played all the time no boards sit out so there is no factoring and the results are concentrated on the boards in play The disadvantage is the director must take an active part in warning the pairs who are about to be bumped For that reason you should produce two guide cards of the rover pair one for the roving pair and one for the director 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 99 5 Data Base The incorporation of the data base to ACBLscore allows you to maintain accurate information on players and games and also enables easy access to valuable data such as attendance records and masterpoint lists that can be used to direct your marketing efforts Further monthly masterpoint and financial reports required by ACBL can be readily generated through the use of the data b
71. 5 Eligibility masterpoints Cancel Help 5 3 12 4 14 PIF By Paid Thru Date Specify range fog Paid thru date Blank Oldest Date include blank dates Oldest Date 5 1 2006 n Newest Date 5 3 12 4 15 PIF By State or Province 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base State Province Enter State Province to Restrict to F2 all F3 blank F5 remove all Enter done F4 EXCLUDE the above STATES PROVINCES m 5 3 12 4 16 PIF By Unit Number Ut number Enter Unit number to Restrict to F2 all F3 blank F5 remove all Enter done F4 EXCLUDE the above UNIT NUMBERS 5 3 12 4 17 PIF By Zip Code Ut number Enter Unit number to Restrict to F2 all F3 blank F5 remove all Enter done F4 EXCLUDE the above UNIT NUMBERS mm 5 3 12 5 Reports Exports 2006 American Contract Bridge League 144 ACBLscore Help i ACBLscore Reports Select report type ESC to exit 1 Phone list 2 Complete 3 Mailing labels 4 Masterpoint list 6 Custom report 8 Monthly club masterpoint report non ACBL members 9 Attendance report 10 ACBL Player number file 11 Player Information File 12 Comma delimited file for import into DBASE ACCESS etc 13 List of Qualifiers from NAOP GNT etc Cancel Help WCLUBREP Version W7 41 05 26 2006 Copyright c 1991 2006 ACBL 5 3 13 Selection Parameters General Selection Parameters The repor
72. 612 6 tables 12 rounds From Movements a fair approach 2 x 12 players Mingled Movement S0614 6 tables 7 rounds of 4 boards South and East switch positions after the first 2 boards of each round See S0607 above for board movement Computer set up for 14 rounds of 2 boards S0621 6 tables 7 rounds with player rotation Players rotate clockwise around North after each board See S0607 above for board movement Computer set up for 21 rounds with 21 boards in play 0725 25 players 25 rounds Thirty boards in play 25 boards played 1 board per round in 5 stanzas Computer will be configured for 28 players with 26 27 28 phantom Computer set up for 7 tables 25 rounds and 30 boards in play S0714 7 tables 14 rounds First session This movement is divided into two stanzas of seven rounds each Distribute 2 boards to each table in numerical order beginning with table 1 After 7 rounds the seven sets will have been completed At round 8 boards 15 28 go into play Boards move normally between rounds Computer set up for 14 rounds with 28 boards in play S0713 7 tables 13 rounds Second session This movement is divided into two stanzas boards 1 14 picked up at the end of the 6th round These boards then go to table 7 where a set will be played during each of the 7 rounds of the second stanza At round 7 boards 15 28 go into play in numerical order beginning with table 1 except that there will be a bye set a table 6 for each r
73. ARD F10 key j Press release Tor WIDE E M 7 a E E EE E E E EEEE E E E e e o WEE lod M CFIG1 change event configuration vets as GFIG2 Combined Rue iiic epe re Pe tiae ire Lo a E e nr e Fee ERE ind epa n GFIG3 Team multiple event TeSUltS 2 1 iri cct st cde torii edente ei au tev denger 28 CH F7 BNUDMEO 29 no c 29 CPAIR 29 bDiPiraz eig ee 29 2 Rent 30 Display or charige une VE E 30 Display or reassign board sequencing 91 Display ot reassign pair nBmbers incon iai ct ennt tnit rta tr teh traen riadi ed ane cnddevecedaebevsatvenc sssts 31 iNeXecc 32 Save as Bue 32 EDPX EDXOV Examples of EDXOV or EDPX assignments ELIG ENTER F2 key POSIMO QIU m 34 EVENT F Key eegene deet 35 2006 American Contract Bridge League ACBLscore Help EXP FIND 9 e ee ee 36 Fouled Adjusted bo
74. BL To do a trial report not for ACBL select 1 Monthly club financial report checking purposes only and examine the report and if any games are missing repeat steps 1 and or 2 above To resolve unreported games see help on Unreported games e Payment can be by check or credit card If credit card information is included in the monthly report the report file can be e mailed to club report mail1 acbl org or the diskette can be mailed to ACBL If payment is by check the diskette must be sent via regular mail 2 1 Making a Monthly Club Report for ACBL This utility allows you to produce the required financial paperwork for the ACBL in a matter of seconds ACBLscore will ask which month and which club to report and send the report to a diskette You can do a trial report not for ACBL by selecting 1 Monthly club financial report checking purposes only or 2 Monthly club masterpoint report checking purposes only See Unreported Club Games s for resolving games that do not appear in the monthly report When the unreported games are resolved do the final report for ACBL 3 both club financial and masterpoint reports for ACBL This will do both reports on a diskette into one file It is not necessary to print the reports however a cover sheet will be printed that shows the amount of money due and payment method This cover sheet should be included with your diskette and check Payment can also be made by credit card Visa Master Card
75. Brie type of game to WRC fees BE to Se 2 Unit Championship sanction fee 3 International fund Club Champ donation 4 Unit Charity Championship donation 5 Unit Charity ACBL sanction fee if donation is local charity 6 North American Pairs Club level sanction fee 7 North American Pairs Unit level sanction fee 8 Grand National Teams Club level sanction fee 9 Grand National Teams Unit level sanction fee 10 ACBL Wide Charity donation 11 ACBL Wide International fund donation 12 District Wide Charity game donation 18 Worldwide Simultaneous Pairs sanction fee 14 ACBL Instant matchpoint game sanction fee 15 Junior fund raiser game donation 16 ACBL Wide Senior game sanction fee 17 Inter Club Championship ACBL sanction fee 18 Other fund raiser donation 5 2 9 2 Game Not Held 2006 American Contract Bridge League 120 ACBLscore Help SR ACBLscore Club Game Records Club D YACBLSCORICLUBGAME DAT Club it 00100 Club Name Not Club Das 00 00 0000 Rating Fo Ho game Unsanctioned Event Name Event Code Club Session 0 Section Event Session 1 Sanction Dpen Invitational Novice jo Pair T eam Indivdual P Boards 0 Director Game File EA Adding a Game Not Held Record m mE Date of no game MM DD YYYY 5 26 2006 EI Session Number 0 Comment Special game fee code Ok Regular Fees IN Press ESC to abort this add Total ACBL Fees for this section 0 00 Local charity name o
76. E EUER DRE EEA ERA danse tendent nan LOI ERR RU GS 150 Oberehe O 150 Starting e E EE 151 ele tere Ee EE 151 Unit numbot ios dieci troc Eri Er rir Seca tana dnd sia saan HERE OREL ERA REESE EABIR tentes E a EALE Aaa EE E FLA REX ERE ERR AERE RA 151 Sorting raM M 152 2006 American Contract Bridge League VI ACBLscore Help 4 Part VI a P Go N Part VII zl Oo 0 5 Go M Part VIII 1 Data Base Maintenance cccccescceeeeseeeeensnaeeeenneaeeeenneaeeeensaaeeeensaaeeeensaaeeeensaeeeenseeeeenneeneeenas 153 Add Group Codes based on Player Number file essere eese nennen nennen nnne nnn nnn nnn ntn ennen 153 Prepare Data Base for next month ssnissisnrrnnrsnnnennnennnensnnennnnnnnnnnnnenennesnneeneesnneenennee 153 Purge old database records eeeeeseeeeeseeeeseeeeee sense Ees nnne antea atras sns atta sa sn sanas asas ass assa as sn aas s Rasen asas sana 154 Purge old attendance records ci sett rra e EAR RETE ELT OR EEER ERA REL KEEARER t RS RE ERE EEN EXE Ua ERE RAS 154 Purge old Club Game and connected attendance recorde 155 Purge old Handicap percentage records eeeeseeee e eese eene tnn enne tn eae tht itat tn ase th iate sata si aah atia aiia saos Purge old player records based on last active date Purge pl
77. For example 4NA 2004 NAOP flight A 3NC 2003 NAOP flight C 3GB 2003 GNT flight B 2GA 2002 GNT flight A and for Canadian events 2CP 2002 COPC 4CN 2004 CNTC Next you will be asked if you want to include the qualifier s city and state in the report After you you give your report a title the data base will be scanned and the report will be ready See Qualifiers from NAOP GNT etc wel screen 2006 American Contract Bridge League 132 ACBLscore Help 5 3 12 Screens 5 3 12 1 Qualifiers from NAOP GNT etc Seley t groups to include or exclude EM g 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base Select groups to include or exclude 5 3 12 2 Monthly Club Masterpoint Reports for Non members of the ACBL 133 2006 American Contract Bridge League 134 ACBLscore Help 1 Surname 2 Masterpoints Cancel Help 5 3 12 3 Masterpoints List lt gt Select masterpoint fi a 2 Year to date total 3 Month to date total 4 Recent total 5 Eligibility points 6 Specific club sessions Cancel Help 5 3 12 4 Generic Report Selectable Restrictions In some cases when you press the Space Bar or the Enter Key or Click an option with the mouse a new screen of selections will be presnted to you In other cases export of the player information will begin Use the Space Bar to Select any of the report rest
78. For example you may E to have all your games on floppy drive B You would then set the game path to You can maintain more than one data base on your computer you direct at more than one club and want to keep a separate masterpoint race for each Use Set Path to select the appropriate data base for the club that you are working at 2006 American Contract Bridge League 168 ACBLscore Help 6 4 6 5 6 5 1 6 5 2 6 5 3 Set Screen Font Allows you to set the font name and size for viewing within the Game Module and for reports Tournament Club Mode Selects Club ve or Tournament mode settings ACBLscore is used in all ACBL tournaments as well as clubs Use this option to select Tournament mode for use only at Sectional and higher rated tournaments or to return back to Club mode In tournament mode the Back up Restore menu is replaced with Tourn Utilities This allows you to run the following Masterpoint charts Game file copy and Back up Restore The Non ACBL Mode weg is for those clubs or tournaments that are not sanctioned by the ACBL Club Mode Club Mode is the default mode For use at clubs for all normal club games and other games normally held at clubs Club masterpoint Championships ACBL wide games Unit games Sectional Tournament at Clubs etc Tournament Mode Tournament default settings To be used at Sectional or higher rated tournaments Non ACBL Mode The Non ACB
79. Game Options Help New 171 help topics program manual and features How to use Help UO Mew Features Manual 3 ACBL Handbook Look at Error Messages D Delete Error Messages Utilities s ACBLscore program utilities such as back up and restore data base or game files TE Backup Restore Masterpoint Charts Copy Game Files HE Swiss Grid KO Bkt Sheet 2006 American Contract Bridge League Misc menu items fh ACBLScore Version k Computer Info Wii CopyRight c rao Check for Updates 1 1 Installing ACBLscore There are several ways to get ACBLscore for Windows ACBLscore 11 e You can download it from our Website See Downloading ACBLscore e We can send a copy on CD call 901 332 5586 Ext 1258 See Installing from a CD or Pen Drive e You can install Installing from a CD or Pen Drive 14 it from a copy burned t 4 1 1 1 Downloading ACBLscore You download ACBLscore from our website www acbl org o a CD from some other source See At this main page click on the word ACBLscore on the left side of the screen 2006 American Contract Bridge League 12 ACBLscore Help My ACBL Masterpoints and More Shop ACBL Resources for Members Teachers Club Directors and Managers Units and Districts Marketing and Advertising ACBLscore ven rb oe On next page
80. IF By Email Address PIF By Gender gt e M PIF By Last Active Local Dates ccicsccs casecsshsecdcascessstesnsshdeassvncspasessndesdssostdivacsalsnasancsssstsatiantsaasauesbeaalecssnedenaes 140 PIE By Mall COG EE 141 PIF By EE e 141 xllzisi aisi ETE 142 PIF BY State or Proulteg e E Re hein 142 PIF By Unit Number niii deir pasen tiri tho Lx Era Ea XE EL IE sente HR DAR EET AATA FACH EREKRERR RES MR LERRA ERa RB 143 PIRBY Zip COJE T HH 143 Reports EXDOLFtS iii estera i ei s EE FERE EXE XE ECRIRE RE EE CX EXPE RR EE XR EXRS KR EAERRE tracer ME EXRE LL GG Kad KE a TA beads 143 Selection Parameters peel 144 ACBL member STATUS EEUU 145 PAG BUSAN Codes E 146 ACUIVG GALS m PHR HUM 146 Category A or Category B tete rrr itane k th baee NIE EE Anta uS ERAS e ERE n nas aE ERE RRRR MER RR a eS ERR DERE Re ER Rt RE RARR 147 COUNTY COUGE idees Ha nte E pda itu LOL IL eR II EE 147 Biel Ile 148 Email addt658 rei iie A EAR KE EX DA RR ERA ERR E CX XE EARERE RUE EXER RA EE EXREE XE FERE XXL EA asc 148 Gender Group code McKeoe UMl etcC E le Un E 149 st Moa n Moz MERE EE IT RE EEE EE EP PE EE EEE EE EEE EEE EEE CITE TENTE TE NE IE 150 Player number tlle icd Er irse cir Era Rari SEO EHE REESE KX TE ERROR IR
81. IMP their results against the datum without waiting for the recap sheets GNEXT Ctrl Right Use GNEXT to advance to the next game file alpabetically For example if you have the following game files 971101 A 971101 E 971102 M and are currently in 971101 E use GNEXT to bring up 971102 M This is the next game file in alphabetic sequence See GPREV s71 GPREV Ctrl Left Use GPREV to go to the previous game file alpabetically For example if you have the following game files 971101 A 971101 E 971102 M and are currently in 971101 E use the GPREV command to bring up 971101 A This is the previous game file in alphabetic sequence See GNEXTI 71 HAND HAND allows you to adjust a pair s handicap Handicap games si allow less experienced players to compete for a portion of the masterpoints with their inexperience factored in The handicap adjustment screen displays the pairs in the section and their assigned handicap To enter all handicaps in sequence press the F6 key To pick specific pairs to handicap use the arrow keys and press Enter key to modify their handicap When you re done press the F9 key 3 2 26 1 Handicap table Handicap Handicap 2006 American Contract Bridge League 38 ACBLscore Help Player Rank Masterpoints 5 Boards Rookie 0 4 99 25 T50 Junior Master 5 19 99 22 L25 Club Master 20 49 99 19 1 00 Sectional Master 50 99 99 16 0 75
82. L CLEA REX RAE RE RE CK Ea aE A XXE RE ASTEAN 84 Movements 87 2006 American Contract Bridge League ACBLscore Help Part V 2 About Phantom Pairs eeleeeeeceee esee eiii enue eese nena anna s nsn ma nasa saa esse sa saga sa aas Dass sa sa sa ssa asm Dac 88 Howell Pen TIT PERPE REEL m 88 eeh TTC W 89 Complete A 89 Re En EE 90 Individual Movements Lerieeeceeeeeeieee nenne mena na unas aas sa masas a saa s ass Dama nennen anann aaa suas nen 91 PLIN LUI I MM 32 36 EE DUELO II NET 8 17players Rover Movements About Rover Movements RET 97 Data Base 99 Data Base Update Finn e 99 Add Copy Data record Edit Edit GFOUP COdES 102 LE ELE EE po LA ER RER EES VR Ed Ee e 102 Find a player Merging players Screens AtlendanCe RECOMS C SM Delete Player RECO M EI LEE MaSt rpoints casciee Player Handicap Per
83. L Mode is for those clubs or tournaments that are not sanctioned by the ACBL If this item is unchecked and you click on it you will see the prompt 2006 American Contract Bridge League Setup Confirm change to N d ACBL mode MP colors not shown no ACBL reports all Once the mode is set Non ACBL mode will a check mark next to it owed Club mode Non ACBL Mode 169 2006 American Contract Bridge League Help New 171 7 Help New A drop down menu that contains help manual ACBL handbook new features and error messages for ACBLscore This menu has the following topics How to use Help New features vs Manuali Look at error messages 3 Delete error messages 74 How to use Help Help Index k Ci New Features Manual CR ACBL Handbook aw Look at Error Messages Delete Error Messages 7 1 ACBL Handbook The ACBL Handbook can be accesed at web2 acbl org handbook handbook cover htm 7 2 ACBLscore Manual ACBLscore manual is now available and can be accessed under Help New of the Main Menu A table of contents of the manual is included to provide easy access to the topic of your choice At the right side the chapter name and page number of the item is shown You can use the arrow keys or PgDn PgUp to scroll through the table You can also press the first letter of the item you want to select to skip the other items To view
84. OV 1 After answering that and the remaining questions use EDMOV The following four options will be displayed in the Select EDMOV options window 1 Display or reassign board sequencing 2 Display or change movement 3 Print guide cards 4 Save as a movement file As it can be seen from the list you can print guide cards for the movement that you are going to create or can save it as a movement file if you think you might use it again in the future If you save it ACBLscore would want you to give it a name That name will be listed in the external individual movement list If you select option 2 Display or change movement from the above list seat assignments made by ACBLscore which are not valid and a window at the bottom of the screen with the following options will be displayed 2 Scroll left 6 Save and exit 10 Edit sequentially 3 Scroll right 7 Edit pairs 11 Print movement 4 Scroll up 8 Edit boards 12 Rotate players 5 Scroll down 9 Edit one cell 13 Balance report The first four options can be used to scroll the screen so that you will be able to see other rounds and tables When you select option 10 Edit sequentially ACBLscore will give you the options to edit boards pairs or both boards and players Choose the last one both boards and pairs Then the table number will be asked In order to start with table 1 press Enter key since the default is 1 Next ACBLscore will ask you the round numb
85. a topic of interest press Enter after you highlight it If you are looking for a specific topic press F2 key for find A small window will ask for the text to find This text will be searched in the table of contents and if found that item will be highlighted if not you will be informed as such Even though the text you entered is found if that topic is not what you are looking for you can press F3 key to repeat the search process on the remaining table of contents Find Ctrl F also works when you are viewing a topic Type the text you are looking for If 2006 American Contract Bridge League 172 ACBLscore Help 7 3 7 4 ACBLscore finds a match the screen will shift so that the line that has the text will be placed at the top of the screen To print the explanations of the topic press F7 key when you are at the table of contents screen F7 key will print the entire page that your selection is on To print all the pages of a specific chapter highlight the first item for the chapter you wish to print in the table of contents and press F7 key For example if you want to print chapter Getting started highlight I Getting Started START pg and press F7 key Delete error messages Use this to remove any error messages saved by ACBLscore Help how to use How to use Online Help F1 key Wherever you are this displays a context related Help screen Once you re in Help pressing F1 key
86. act Bridge League 178 ACBLscore Help 8 2 8 3 Restore Game Files s will request the mask used for back up if you need to restore game files Backup Game Files Selective This option allows you to back up some of the games to a floppy disk Choose Utilities from the main menu then Back up Restore and then Backup Game Files selective from the window that appears next ACBLscore will ask you the back up location Then a window with the list of all game files will be displayed Tag the ones you want by pressing space bar and press F9 key when done Restore Data Base The existing data base will be overwritten if you decide to restore a data base that was backed up using Backup Data Base EI Restore Game Files You will be prompted for the mask that was used to Backup Game Files 77 All game files that were backed up using this mask will be restored Restoring data base archives To restore the archive file from your diskette select Back up Restore from the main menu and option 8 restore data base archive from the following window Enter the back up location drive Answer the confirmation question on restoring and select the archive to update the data base to restore the attendance club game records ACBLscore will reject a record if it already exists in the data base or if the player was deleted from the data base Copy game files Use this to copy game files from one location to another Nor
87. again pops up the Help Index P Prints the help topic Make sure that your printer is connected and turned on Press P now to print this topic F2 key Pages backward through the last 10 help screens PgUp PgDn Allows you to page through a help topic Arrows Moves the highlight bar to a keyword if any are visible Enter Displays help screen for selection if highlight bar is present Help Index When the help system is active press F1 key to see an index of the most important help topics When PgDn or PgUp is visible in the lower right corner of the help window it means there s a group of related help screens you can page through Use the arrow keys to move the selection bar to any of the highlighted items The Home key takes you to the first item on the screen End key takes you to the last item The bottom line gives you help on how to move around in the help system Press F1 key now to see the help index lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Help New 173 7 5 7 6 7 7 Look at error messages ACBLscore saves most error messages that are displayed on the screen If you contact ACBL in Memphis for help with any ACBLscore problems or errors that you may have encountered you may be asked to Look at error messages These error messages contain the date and time at the beginning of every line Use Delete error messages 74 to remove the accumulated messages New features ACBLscore is under
88. ain sessions 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 127 5 3 3 5 3 4 Knowing the frequency of attendance of your players can be very helpful in steering your marketing efforts Investigating what you can do to increase the attendance becomes much easier after identifying with an attendance report the players who stopped coming or who rarely come to your club To generate an attendance list select number nine attendance reports from the list of reports ACBLscore will ask you whether you want to include attendance counts for selected sessions If your answer is positive to this question the report will have a column of attendance for every session you choose to include if not it will have a total column only Then select the club for which you want the report and tag the sessions to be included in the report by pressing space bar You can tag all of the sessions with the F8 key Press F9 key when you are done Next indicate the starting and the ending date ACBLscore will then ask you whether the report should include the players with no attendance records during the period that you have selected The next two windows will be the general selection parameters wa and the sort s methods After entering the report title and the date you can send the report to screen for inspection or to a Text file or you can print it See Generic Report Selectable Restrictions ad Screen Comma delimited file
89. amaged data base and DBADD the game again see step 3 above 2006 American Contract Bridge League 20 ACBLscore Help Game Having installed ACBLscore to your computer and added your club Club Setup is and game schedule to the data base you are ready to set up games Following are the steps you may want to follow from ACBLscore perspective when directing a game Set up the game with the ADD command Correct any mistakes that have been made at step 1 with SET or F9 key or delete the game with CFIG Enter player names with NAMES or F3 key Post the scores press Enter or F2 key Review the scores for mistakes with VIEW Print the results with RECAP or F5 key Print summary results for those who want with SUMM Update the data base with DBADD Print masterpoint receipts for non ACBL members with PCON Nh D cp o En ds co Available Game Commandes Game File Directory D ACBLSCOR GAMEFILE F2 By name F3 By newest games F4 By oldest games F5 unDBADDed games F8 Delete game files Event date display is OFF F10 Event date display on Event fle name 314 Mjoming A ftemoon E vening L ate A OK 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 21 3 1 3 2 Factoring Scores When you have more than one section in your game and the number of rounds or number of boards played is different you may need to factor the scores in one or
90. anager and details about sanctioned sessions such as starting time any restrictions and the director s name To move among club records use Next or Prev for Previous or the arrow keys To edit information about the club name number or manager information type E for Edit club information l3 To edit information about specific sessions ss use F2 key The arrow keys allow you to move among sanctioned games and allow for editing of any field Type A to add a new sanctioned game To save the changes made press F2 key To examine or edit club game records i4 for games scored and DBADDed on this machine use F3 key You may add manually scored games d through this command and enter Attendance Records 4 for players playing in the manually added game Related Links Club Setup h22 Attendance Records 120 Club Game Records i Club Sanction Fees hs Game Not Held ug Add manually scored games Adding a New Game File Record Add may be used to enter a manually scored game You may enter and edit information for all categories except club number and name After adding the game file record enter the attendance records for the players by using F4 key and typing A Use the Enter key to move from category to category To save the new file press Enter at the last category To add a game record for a sanctioned session game that wasn t run press F5 key To delete the record select the record and use Delete To edit the reco
91. and pairings for the next round Multiple Swiss events To configure ACBLscore for more than 1 event at a reporting station use CFIG3 Team multiple event results entry configuration sn Team score entry Select the team scoring method you wish help for 2006 American Contract Bridge League 84 ACBLscore Help 3 20 6 1 3 20 6 2 3 20 6 3 Win Loss posting entryle Victory point posting entry Knockout posting entry Knockout posting entry Matches won WINS column are cumulative total of a team s wins Posting examples 4 4wins 1 5 21 5 wins due to 3 way or half match 2 25 2 25 wins The RANK column is the team s final overall rank Use the decimal point to separate tied ranks Posting examples 1 1st overall 3 4 23 4 overall 5 8 5 8 overall See also Win Loss postingls1 and Victory point posting a Victory point posting entry Matches won WINS column are cumulative total of a team s wins without regard to victory points Fractional part of wins can only show ties 5 and 2 are equivalent and show a tie Posting examples 5 5 wins 4 5 24 5 wins 4 2 24 5 wins The VPS column is the team s final cumulative victory points Posting examples 95 95 victory points 102 55 102 55 victory points due to carry over or ruling See also Win Loss posting d and Knockout posting a4 Win Loss posting entry Matches won WINS column are cumu
92. ard formula 1i rtt netta err teet raria thui tor ert reas 36 FREQ n 37 hissd euine satas 37 cale m 37 HAND 37 Handicap table Handicapped events 38 Past performances and entering names siennes 38 IMP Ctrl I KILL LAST Ctrl L LATE LEAD F4 Key 40 LIST F8 Key e 40 Mora ET E idees 40 MEMO MPED ubi 41 NEW CHIN Een 41 NOTE PXOV QUIT Alt X RECAP F5 ROV oues eue e ee 44 Fi FP O 44 RPRES ee 44 EE 44 GEES tee 44 e TE 46 SHOW Ctrl S SHXOV SPRES STRAT SUMM TOURN TRANS TS UNBAC UNDB Ctrl U VIEW WORLD WHEN Xov 3 Game Setup Steps 49 lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Contents Ill
93. ase Moreover easy name and handicap entry which is made possible by the data base expedites setting up games In other words the use of data base increases your efficiency and effectiveness in maintaining your records and directing your efforts This menu includes the following utilities Update Find eg Club Setup h3 Maintenance hss Reports Export 125 ACBL reports 7 Import Merge wei Update Find Players Club Setup P Maintenance a Reports Exports ACEL Reports di Import Merge 5 1 Data Base Update Find Allows you to modify data base entries including player name address masterpoints category club and unit affiliation etc View Displayed on the screen is the Data record iw for a player See Player Record 1 screen Find To find a new player type F or click on Find es Type the first few letters of the 2006 American Contract Bridge League 100 ACBLscore Help player s name Edit To change the contents of a player record type E or click on Edit 1 Use the arrow keys to select the field for editing See Player Information Area i d screen Add To add a player record for a new player type A or click on Add ei Delete To remove a player record type D or click on Delete See Delete Player Record e screen Masterpoints To Edit masterpoints c for a player press or click on F2 key See Masterpoints 7 screen Group Codes
94. at the ACBL computer changes the 6th amp 7th characters of the Mnemonic to SR for Senior events so they can track senior point races 9 Press F2 key to enter first event Once a tournament has been set up and you have exited from Tournament Setup a return to Setup will automatically step to the mode for Entering events in data base weg Therefore if you wish to set up a second tournament you must press F2 key to step back to a position to enter a new tournament Then proceed from item 3 in the list above STAC processing by DIC These procedures allow the DIC of the STAC to import club files calculate overall winners and their awards DBADD the results and generate a file to send to Memphis Clubs not using ACBLscore must submit a press sheet the DIC must ADD a new section to the game file and enter the data Make your task easier by communicating clearly to the participating clubs your data reporting requirements See instructions below regarding club file set up By this date all clubs should have Version 4 00 or later If not you should update those clubs that are registered ACBLscore users with a current version of the program 2006 American Contract Bridge League Tournament Result Reporting 193 1 Protect your computer and data by checking incoming club disks for viruses Either make sure that virus detection software is installed on your computer e g VSHIELD or else scan the incoming disk
95. ata Base Maintenance Data base maintenance contains a range of utilities to prepare the data base for next month to remove old attendance records or percentage records for players and old club game records Purging old records ensures that the information in the data base is not outdated You may also clear masterpoint fields which will help you get the most of the Recent masterpoints won column If the data base becomes damaged the Reindex utility will allow you to repair it Execute this utility by selecting Maintenance at the Data Base Menu Data Base Maintenance options Prepare Data Base for next month hsa Purge old data base records ei 1 2 3 4 Reset masterpoint fields ls 5 Remove unwanted group codes sd from all players 6 Repair damaged Data Base Reindex hss 7 Reinitialize Data bases 8 Update data base archives hs 9 Add Group Codes based on Player Number file 10 Add Group Code based on Game Attendance eo 5 oo See Data base Maintenance si screen 5 4 1 Add Group Codes based on Player Number file Adding Group Codes based on player number file This option lets you assign a group code of your choosing to all players in your data base based on the contents of a player number file See Creating a Player Number File lz for more info 5 4 2 Prepare Data Base for next month Preparing the Data Base for Next Month This option automatically resets the appropriate counters so that you ma
96. ata base 191 Tournament Setting up a new tournament 192 Tournament STAC processing by DIC 192 Tournament Transferring data base event names back to game files 194 Tournament Viewing attendance records 194 Tournament Mode 168 Tournament Result Reporting 184 Tournament Club Mode 168 199 2006 American Contract Bridge League 200 ACBLscore Help Endnotes 2 after index 2006 American Contract Bridge League Back Cover
97. ation File You may order an ACBL player information file from Memphis For a small charge the ACBL can produce a file of players from specific units or specific Zip Codes or a combination of both From the main menu select Data Base then Import Merge then choose option 1 An ACBL Player Information file You will be asked the location of the Information File the default is drive A After you ve identified the file you will be asked to select action to take on the target data base 1 Update players found in data base Add players not found 2 Add players not found only Do NOT update existing players 3 Update existing players only Do NOT add players not found The import routine will compare its file with your file BY PLAYER NUMBER You may instruct ACBLscore to update certain categories for players in your data base found on the information file You may update the name not recommended address street city state zip phone numbers masterpoint grand total recommended or unit number ACBLscore Data Base backup Importing from a Data Dase back up 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 163 5 5 4 5 5 5 Like in Import from another data base ss this allows you to update your data base with information from another However the back up data base can be on a diskette making it easy to merge a data base from another computer After you select the data base back up it will be restored t
98. ation Screen press F1 key for help or to Quit Attendance records can only be added or modified in the Game Module But you can delete attendance records from this screen When you press D for Delete or click the Delete Button the following prompt will be displayed die ENTER for No onfirm deletion of this attendance record Cancel Help 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base If you type a Y for yes or click the Yes Button the record you currently have displayed will be deleted Related Links Player Information Area ua Masterpoints ei Groups losl Player Handicap Percentages los Attendance Records wes Delete Player Record tos Merge Records los 5 1 9 2 Delete Player Record When you type a D or click the Delete button this prompt will be displayed Press ENTER for No Confirm deletion of this player and all groups attendance and percent records linked to this player If you type a Y for yes or click the Yes Button the record you currently have displayed will be deleted 5 1 9 3 Groups You use the F3 key to access group information _F3 Edit Groups for ths player Empty Group record GROUPS Current Groups 105 If the there are no existing Group records for the current player you will be asked 2006 American Contract Bridge League 106 ACBLscore Help L nfirm Groups are empty Add a Group
99. ay 3 boards per round and 9 rounds ACBLscore can help you solve this problem by allowing to add an appendix table Set up your game on the computer for 4 tables if you have not already done so 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 57 The options provided when you use EDMOV will be more for Howell movements than those of other movements Display or reassign pair numbers and Add an appendix table or pair will be the additional options To add the two pairs that were mentioned in the first paragraph select the sixth option Add an appendix table or pair On the new screen ACBLscore will ask the table number to add appendix and give you a table that is duplicated below Not eligible ARNO 8 3 2 5 ROD The first column of this table is the table number the second column is the N S pair number and the third column is the E W pair number Not eligible indicates that there is a stationary pair at the table As you can see from the table above four table Howell has only one stationary pair which is at table 1 You can add an appendix to any table you want unless there is a stationary pair at the table The default to the question for the table to add appendix is the table with the lowest table number that does not have a stationary After your answer ACBLscore will ask you whether to add 1 or 2 pairs Then an explanation of changes that need to be done will be displayed at the lower
100. ayers with no attendance records ss eese esent tnn enne tne aetas thea tn steh satt sata sea ah aea seins aon hoEILNPrichrcig eeeec c Remove unwanted group codes e seeeeeeseeeieeeese esses sens antea nina anna sina atia s asas asas asas ass assa as sn aas sR as sm asas sana Repair damaged Data Base Reindex 4 eeeeeeeeieeeseeeeee esee eene etn sn tn natns natns atus asina sana atta as sn asas sana Reset masterpoint fields c2 A este Purge old Data Base Te60rds EE Prepare Database for next month or year sisi Database Mainterarie iic cb E serere ir ath EO ERRARE EERSTEN EXEEURL E Ea Ra Gn Data Base Import Merge ccceecccceeeeeeeeeenee seen neee seen neee eee een ee enne nnne nnne nnn nnmnnn nnmnnn nnmnnn nnmnnn nnn ACBL masterpoint file ce ACBL Player Information File 00 aonaran edana Eneas daidai n PA Troa rarae aa Eran eenia Ee ACBLscore Data Base backup eerie nee SES tete tic ratu acea tee ada aaaeeeaei sani pan iD raa uaipe Another ACBEscore Data Base 2 e acetate er rrto turae rupe tra aves Ceo S ERR Roa See aos a ee Pee P SE e E ra Eege gege iesus dlun eRilme E R Setup Came el EE 166 Allow edit of na
101. by pressing the appropriate function keys For a complete listing of available commands press F1 key Posting Methods ACBLscore allows for a variety of posting methods by travelers pickups or a combination Options 1 and 2 allow for pick ups by table number or N S pair number in a Howell game select 1 Options 3 and 4 allow for scores to be entered as they appear on the traveler e For most games option 3 corresponds to the traveler e For instant matchpoint games choose option 4 where the score earned first round appears on the top line Option 5 allows you to pull the travelers for the last round and use pickup slips You can post leaders going into the last round which is very popular with the players and beneficial for the director since the players hover around the posted scores and don t congregate as much around the scorer Scrambled Mitchell To create a scrambled Mitchell in ACBLscore 1 Set up any Mitchell standard rover bye stand or appendix 2 Use the EDMOV command and select 2 Display or change movement 3 Select 13 Convert gt one winner 4 Select 7 Edit pairs 5 Select 4 Swap NS and EW pairs arrow switch 6 After all arrow switches are done press ESC and select 6 Save and exit 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 3 16 Screens 3 16 1 Games Main Screen fb Ed yew Sos geoin Eve fer Configuration beb Game File Directory D ACBLSCORIGAMEFILEl F2 By name F3
102. caragua New Caledonia Netherlands Northern Ireland Nepal Niger Norway Nauru New Zealand Oman Portugal Philippines Pitcairn Islands Pakistan Country State Province Codes TC TG TH TK TO TT TZ UA UG UK UR US UV VC VN VS VZ WL WS YM YS ZA ZM ZO Turks amp Caicos Islands Tristan Da Cunha Tonga Thailand Turkey Togo Trinidad amp Tobago Tunisia Tuvalu Tanzania United Arab Emirates Uganda United Kingdom Uruguay United States Upper Volta Vatican City State Vanuatu Vietnam Venezuela Wales Western Samoa Yugoslavia Yemen Aden Yemen Sanaa Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe Azores 9 3 Mexican State Codes Aguascalientes Baja California Norte Baja California Sur Campeche Chiapas Chihuahua Colima Coahuila Distrito Federal Durango Guerrero Guanajuato Hidalgo Jalisco Mi choac n Morelos M xico Estado de Nayarit Nuevo Le n Oaxaca Puebla Quer taro Quintana Roo Sinaloa San Luis Potos Sonora Tabasco Tlaxcala Tamaulipas Veracruz Yucat n Zacatecas 181 2006 American Contract Bridge League 182 ACBLscore Help 9 4 State Codes POBRHER UERSOPRDRASRRERL APO Americas European APO Alaska Alabama Pacific APO Arkansas American Samoa Arizona California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia Delaware Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Iowa Idaho Illinois KS MS MT
103. cecesccccuetistadeeescicennsctvcecenccnctebttecedececersccetetsucecnsedsctescnteceetesvecceusdizcouccersucruasate 178 Restore Data Base qe 178 Restore Game Files ae 178 Restoring data base archives csscssessnssncsserseneesneesenessecseeessenseeesecesseenseneeseeesenensneeseaesenenseeesecessenseneeseeesane 178 Copy rus c 178 Masterpoint Charts missenu aaaea aea a aaa aeaa a eaa aa aaa aa aai aaa aaa Saas aaaea Saa 178 Country State Province Codes 180 Canadian Province Codes innere eenaa aeann daaa ka aaa Haaa aaae Eaa 180 eM II aaa aa aaea aa dace ewe aAa aaae A tel nected soeede 180 Mexican State e EE 181 State 6 EE 182 Tournament Result Reporting 184 Adding player number to existing non member player record esses 184 Augmenting tournament data base ss iinniinnnnnnnenennennnnnnennnnennenenne 185 Checklist of Mandatory Procedures nine 185 eupnjLIlcrc E 185 Continuous Pairs PROCESSING eege edel 187 Creating Data Files for Memphis and for Archive ii 187 DBADDing events 188 Entering events in data base ssssssssssnnesunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nn inse nn nn inan nnn nnn 188 Generating Memphis Masterpoint Report sine 188 Generating
104. centages Player Information Area o nitet trennen eia eene to orna o EE Fe Fo ra ee Eee EYE LES Ee ES ET RRCA dria ects View or edit attendance records is iecit esee seen esses senes tne s tonat tn sain usan assa n seams ases asma same a asma s snas View or edit percentages RHR eR ec ae Addi manually scored m raprm M Adding EE E ER E Attendan e ReCOrds dm c Club game records Club Weekly Session Numbers uar eucucu euren actae cien ck een r i tena Eara rd daea ege erg Edit club Wu TE e Editing evii nb Ene Mire o C H GAME Puldgee CET SE RO A RE rS Club Sanction Ne Game Not SIG EE Attendance Records Club Game Records em head Specific SCSSIONS mee M 2006 American Contract Bridge League Contents V 3 Data Base Reports 0 0 125 ACBL Player Number File ec 126 Attendance report
105. click on the words Specs and Downloads Home ACBLscore Submit Club Report Update Club Database Report Special Games Post Game Results Specs and Downloads FAGs Then on the right side of the page you will see the title Downloads Below are two links one to download the DOS version of ACBLscore and one to download the Windows version of ACBLscore DOWNLOAD DOS Version 7 40 Windows Version 7 40 2006 American Contract Bridge League ACBLscore 13 If you can go directly to the web page using http www acbl org acblscore specificationsDownloads html Click on the link to download ACBLscore Windows you will asked File Download Security Warning Do you want to run or save this file Name Acbl740w exe Type Application 12 3 MB From web2 acbl org While files from the Internet can be useful this file type can potentially harm your computer If you do not trust the source do not run or save this software What s the risk If you select Save you will then be asked where to save the file 2006 American Contract Bridge League 14 ACBLscore Help a Desktop sl QO e Ei My Recent Documents 2 Desktop My Documents d My Computer my Network Places g Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Standard SE Adobe Reader 7 0 de DBU 7 0 Lotus Notes 6 5 ENPestPatrol ED winzip My Documents My Computer My Network CD ACELscor
106. created a specialized movement you may use in the future by saving a modified movement with this option EDPX EDP allows you to edit previous session crossovers It is used in the final sessions of events with qualifiers EDP in conjunction with CCO zl and PXOV a simplifies the calculations of carry overs and reduces the errors As discussed in Multi session games e if there is no qualification session you can use EDXOV and XOV to transfer the player names and carry overs However if there is a qualifying session you do not know which pairs are going to qualify therefore you cannot assign seats This assignment has to be done after the first session First use EDPX and enter where the qualified pairs sat the first session See XOV syntax s for examples Then use PXOV i to transfer the raw scores names and masterpoints from the qualifying session Finally use CCO ss which calculates the carry overs by using the ACBL mathematical formula EDXOV EDXOV allows you to specify a pair s starting position for the next session You may assign their positions generally In two section crossovers the afternoon N S become E W at the same table in the same section and afternoon E W become N S in the other section at the same table In a three section crossover N S become E W at the same table and E W become N S in the next higher section at the same table Pressing the F9 key will save your global crossover and allow you
107. ct Bridge League 150 ACBLscore Help See PIF By Masterpoints 1 Screen 5 3 13 12 Paid thru date Restricting by Paid Thru Date You may wish to restrict your report only to paid up ACBL members or players who haven t paid their ACBL dues lately etc This is only as accurate as the Player Information File he2 that you may have last imported You will be able to restrict the paid thru date within a range of dates If you wish to have no limit on the oldest paid thru date blank out the date with the space bar See PIF By Paid Thru Date screen 5 3 13 13 Player number file Restriction by a Player number file Lets say that you want to produce a report of all players that play at two different clubs each of which has its own ACBLscore data base Create a player number file of all players from one data base on diskette Take the file to the other computer and when producing the report select this restriction 5 3 13 14 Postal zip code Restricting Postal and Zip Codes You may wish to narrow your report to players from certain Postal or Zip Codes This facilitates identifying players by neighbourhood The option will ask you to enter the first few characters of the Postal Zip Codes you wish to select As they are selected they will appear under the SELECTED POSTAL ZIP CODES heading Fortunately this command recognizes that if you type 94 it should include all previously selected players whose Zip Code
108. cutoff date It is a good idea to pruge the older percentage records from your data base As with all records they occupy space and if unchecked they can swallow all your free space In addition very old records will not accurately reflect the form of your players Before operating the utility will suggest backing up the data base If you delete handicap percentage records without back up and find later that you need them you ll have to spend a lot of time paging through old paper copies of games to rebuild the lost information ACBLscore will ask you to select the method of percentage purging You can either select to purge by oldest date or by number of percentages to retain If you select the oldest date option the utility will ask the earliest date for records you wish to retain If your response to the confirmation question is positive ACBLscore will then remove all percentage records from before that date If you selected purging by the number of percentages to retain ACBLscore will ask you to select sessions to include for handicap percentage purging Tag the ones you want by using the space bar and enter the maximum total number of percentages to retain for all tagged sessions for each player Next question is whether you want to save handicap records to archive ACBLscore gives you the name of the archive file to be created and warns you to back it up You will be informed about the number of records read and deleted Press any key
109. d before what you indicated as the earliest date Next question is whether you want to save club game and attendance records to archive ACBLscore gives you the name of the archive file to be created and warns you to back it up You will be informed about the number of records read and deleted Press any key to continue Next you will be looking at the 8 options of maintenance If you want to back up the file press ESC Press Enter to the question which asks whether you want to back up the archive files to diskette A new window that asks you to select archive to back up will be displayed After selecting the one you want enter the back up location generally either drive A or B The back up window will show you the back up status Then the following warning 2006 American Contract Bridge League 156 ACBLscore Help 5 4 3 3 will be displayed The back up file A LZH is not part of any report and should not be sent to Memphis When you press any key you will be at the 8 item back up menu ACBLscore will delete the archive file after it is backed up till then it will stay in the hard disk See Restore data base archive ka Purge old Handicap percentage records Purging Old Handicap Percentages This option allows you to discard old percentage records You may judge that percentage scores obtained a year ago no longer reflect a players ability By using this option ACBLscore will ask for the
110. d one without 3 2 20 EXP EXP allows you to export an event or a section to another game file It can be used only in tournament mode It is used for events scored across many sections more than one computer After scoring on the master computer the sections are EXPorted back to the game files from which they were IMPorted a then each poster uses the UNBAC command to restore his game file for printing the recaps etc 2006 American Contract Bridge League 36 ACBLscore Help 3 2 21 3 2 22 3 2 22 1 FIND You can create a file of player numbers and use this file in conjunction with FIND If you want to keep track of the games in which a group of players selected by you played this option can be of great help FIND can be used either to find a player or to verify player eligibility FOUL FOUL configures a board that was played in more than one form in your game ACBLscore first asks for the board number The board will then be displayed with the first round result on the top line If the board was played unfouled press the Space bar If the board was played fouled type F In the unlikely event the board was fouled more than once use F for the first fouled form G for the second and H for the third To exit the fouled board menu press the ESCape key See Fouled Adjusted board formulas for more information Fouled Adjusted board formula The formula for scoring fouled and adjusted boar
111. da COPC Club level sectional rated 1 2 red Canadian open Pairs Championship club qualifying stage CNTC Club level sectional rated red Canadian National Team Championship club qualifying stage CNTC Unit level sectional rated red Canadian National Team Championship unit qualifying stage CNTC Master Non Master Club level Canadian National Team Championship Master Non master club qualifying stage CWTC Canadian Womens Team Championship ACBL Membership large masterpoint awards for ACBL members only funds and forms to ACBL 1 ACBL World District Wide Instant Seniors etc This displays a second pick list ACBL wide Charity sectional rating Usually in conjunction with a Charity game at an NABC Requires hand records ACBL wide International Fund sectional rating 1 2 red points Often in conjuction with the same event at an NABC Requires hand records World wide simultaneous Pairs sectional rating 1 2 red Usually the first Friday and Saturday in June ACBL wide Instant Matchpoints sectional rating with 1 Gold point to section winners and pre determined matchpoints Held during a week day in September lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League 56 ACBLscore Help 3 10 3 10 1 SE District wide sectional rating Sponsored by the District and sanctioned by the ACBL ACBL wide Seniors sectional rating Held in February ACBL wide Char
112. default for the number of rounds is one less than the number of tables Then ACBLscore will provide four types of Mitchell movements to choose from Standard Mitchell Rover Mitchell Bye Stand Mitchell Rover Bye Stand Mitchell Bep If you choose bye stand Mitchell you will be asked to determine after which table to have the bye stand default is provided If you have an even number plus half tables you can choose Rover Bye Stand Mitchell Movement In this case you will be asked the direction of the roving pair and the number of the table after which there will be a bye stand Then ACBLscore indicates where the roving pair should start Next ACBLscore will ask where board one starts In most club games board one starts at table 1 If boards are moved after hand record duplication however the director should answer the question with great care Then you will be asked which E W pair plays board 1 As above in most club duplicate games the answer will be pair 1 Where boards are duplicated from hand records and boards and possibly E W pairs move the answer will be different The director will need to exercise some care If there is an even number of tables the next question will be when to skip 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 65 ACBLscore calculates when to skip and gives the result as a suggestion The director may need to change this if the first round is a duplicating round You
113. ds is the one used by the World Bridge Federation and adopted by the ACBL For the mathematically minded the fouled board formula is where M final matchpoints on the board N number of scores on the board S matchpoint score within own group n number of scores within own group Note this formula is used only when there are four or more scores within the same comparison group The formula is also used on groups of three scores when it is the larger group e g a board is played five times three times fouled and twice unfouled Otherwise the scores in a group of three are awarded matchpoint scores of 70 60 and 50 of top In groups of two the better score receives 65 of the matchpoints and the worse receives 5596 of the matchpoints A single score is awarded 60 of top for each direction Scores are rounded to the nearest hundredth 005 is rounded up These arbitrary awards are assigned since small groups are not large enough to warrant matchpoint assignments lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Game 37 3 2 23 3 2 24 3 2 25 3 2 26 FREQ FREQ will allow you to produce frequency charts for boards played in your game The chart will show for each result obtained how many times the result was obtained and the matchpoint score for N S and for E W In IMP by datum scored events the FREQ score will produce the table of IMP datums for each board The contestants will be able to
114. e 15 1 2 Setting up your Club s From the main ACBLscore menu select Data Base then Club Setup If there are no clubs entered you must first press A for Add or click the Add Button See Club Setup e screen After you have entered and saved you club information you must enter the Sessions for your club While you are still in the Club Setup screen simply press F2 key to toggle to the session mode The F2 key toggles between Club and Session mode See Club Setup i screen at the bottom of the page Note Add all your sessions for your club before adding any games 1 3 Players After you have entered your club and sessions information under Club Setup you should enter the information on the players for your club See Player Record screen 2006 American Contract Bridge League ACBL Monthly Reports 17 2 ACBL Monthly Reports To produce the monthly reports that a club should submit to the ACBL do the following 1 Ensure that all games held during the month have been DBADDed a From the main ACBLscore menu select Game then press F5 key to display games that may need to be DBADDed 2 Add Club game records to your data base for any regular scheduled games not held t 3 From the main ACBLscore menu select Data Base then ACBL Reports then select the month for the report then select the club for the report then 3 Both club financial and masterpoint report for AC
115. e League Movements 91 4 3 4 3 1 11 12 11 13 Official ACBL 11 14 11 15 11 16 11 17 11 18 11 19 11 20 12 13 Official ACBL board relay 12 14 12 15 12 16 12 17 12 18 12 19 12 20 12 21 12 22 4bye stands Individual Movements Mitchell individual movements as used by ACBLscore require all players to retain their compass position throughout the session If the number of tables is a prime number 3 5 7 11 13 17 no movement file is used For all the following movements the guide cards should be printed using EDMOV and distributed to the players 8 17 players los 20 28 players 32 36 players 40 48 players s 52 64 players 20 28 players c Ri en AI 0512 5 tables 12 rounds From Movements a fair approach Stanza 1 Rounds 1 6 Boards 1 12 circulate Stanza 2 Rounds 7 12 Boards 13 24 circulate 0515 5 tables 5 rounds Standard Rainbow with player rotation East South and West rotate clockwise around North after every 2 boards to complete a 6 board round Computer set up for 15 rounds with 30 boards in play 2006 American Contract Bridge League 92 ACBLscore Help 4 3 2 S0607 6 tables 7 rounds Distribute boards normally with the 6th set on a bye stand between tables 5 and 6 and the 7th set on table 6 Boards move from table 6 to bye stand and from bye stand to table 5 S0
116. e Quit Button to exit Club Setup See Game Not Held 3 screen Screens Club Sanction Fees 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 117 A ACBL score Club D YACBLSCORICLUBDEF DAT Contains 1 Records Club 00100 Club Name NA Cd Manager 1 0 0 i Player mm Address D 1 5 City i State zl Zip IR Emi wes D Distict Type of Club Open Club Session jo Select type of fees to modify Handicap N 1 Regular Club sanction fees Count 2 Special games sanction fees donations Cancel Director Club Record Mode Edit Add Sanctioned Club Sessions F1 Help View Edit Club Game Records and Linked Attendance Records Edit ACBL Club Sanction Fees Country _Prev Find Top Last Edit Add Copy Delete Quit Regular Club Sanction Fees 2006 American Contract Bridge League 118 ACBLscore Help Edit ACBL Eluf Sanction Fees F9 when done Game Sanction fees Table Sanction fees CH 0 74 Short game table Sanction fees 0 40 Late fees per day 0 25 Country Code Fl for list of Countries OK Cancel Special Game Sanction Fees You must first select the country Enkr Country code Country 1 USA 2 Canada 3 Other Then you can edit each type of sanction fee 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 119
117. e Shortcuts CD Programming S Acbi740w exe fS ACBLscore Windows Bo CASE Studio 2 a Club Setup K Sin Tournaments pmartin gib Delphi 7 GD Dept 340 Devl Delphi S2bdevl on D HAE Main Menu Dir SE Players Dir WIE Test Dir EA Tournaments bcampbell EA Tournaments dvicknair Ae Tournaments mwilkes AE Tournaments pmartin D ExplorerxP gg FoxySQLFree e KillNotes exe BA LDBView exe B aen To Play Bridge ELearn to Play Bridge fe Local Disk C Blo L lMeroeott Office Acc Li Player Lookup eie pmartin S TNT G Total Recorder Al Tourns2 mdb Windows Command SS WinRAR File name Save as type Acbl 40w exe b Application v Save Cancel We suggest that you download it to your Desktop that way it is easy to locate Click to Save to start the download Once the download has completed locate the Icon on your desktop labeled ACBL W EXE the is the version number of ACBLscore Double click on this icon and installation will begin Installing from a CD or Pen Drive Place the the CD in the CD Drive or the Pen Drive into the USB Port 2 Open My Computer and double click on the drive letter for CD Drive or USB Drive that you just inserted 3 When the contents of the drive appear double click on the file named ACBL W EXE the is the version number of ACBLscore and installation will begin 2006 American Contract Bridge League ACBLscor
118. e brief explanations of these methods of scoring 1 win loss This scoring method determines the net raw scores of each board and then these scores are converted to International Matchpoints IMPs To determine the winner of the match the IMP results on all boards are added The team that emerges with a net plus wins the match and is awarded the appropriate masterpoints A margin of as little as 1 IMP is sufficient for winning the masterpoints for the match If the net result after adding the IMPs is zero the match is a tie and the masterpoints for the match are divided equally between the two teams A slight variation in the Win Loss scoring method considerably reduces the potential for ties Using this win loss scoring variation a team is not credited with a full win unless it wins its match by at least 3 IMPs A team that wins by 1 or 2 IMPs is credited with 3 4 of a win with the other 1 4 going to the losing team Pairings and 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 77 3 20 5 1 overall standings are based on this scoring 1 3 4 1 2 1 4 and 0 per match However the winning team gets the full allotment of masterpoints for winning the match even if it wins by only 1 or 2 IMPs The losing team receives no masterpoints 2 Victory points VPs Victory point scoring uses the net result in IMPs translated to victory points according to a predetermined scale Victory point scoring has some unusual factor
119. e new pairing or press enter if unknown Ha table number is entered without a section letter the default section letter will be used If a section letter is entered that does not match the default letter if the default letter is non blank you will be asked if the default section letter should be changed Several functions in the match results screen are available F2 key Sit outs Lets you enter sit outs for the highlighted team F4 key Display the work sheet for the highlighted team This can be printed by pressing P F5 key Switch to Pairing Screen zi for this or the next round F8 key Specify options eg for the highlighted team F10 key Specify general options 7 for the event 3 20 5 3 Pairing Screen Using the Pairing Screen Use the pairing screen to fix unusual first round pairings or for manual pairing or to pair one round ahead There are 2 untitled columns to the left of the Total column The first column is stationary resigned and hold status S for stationary teams X for teams that quit x for teams that have not yet begun and H for teams that are held from pairing A number indicates the final round number for a team that is resigning but still active The next column is previous round posted status P if the results have 2006 American Contract Bridge League 80 ACBLscore Help 3 20 5 4 been posted for the previous round The Opp2 column is for round robin and
120. e number of tables in this session is greater than the previous one ACBLscore will list the seats that do not have player names See XOV wi for explanation of Report of missing names holes in the current game file Press Enter you will be back to the ACBLscore Scoring System screen There may be players that did not play in the previous session but want to play in this one However this does not constitute a problem just press F3 key to enter their names All sessions of a multi session event must be DBADD 1ed in sequence beginning with the first session This will correctly update the data base with every contestants correct masterpoints Pair Game How to set up If you choose pair as type of the game ACBLscore prompts you for the section letter Type a letter and press Enter key A color for the section is suggested Press Enter key or change the color then press Enter Next select the appropriate movement from the list that is displayed at the top right hand corner of the screen which is also repeated below 1 Mitchell 2 Howell 3 Web 4 External 5 Barometer 6 Manually Scored Mitchell 7 Manually Scored One winner Mitchell is the movement used where N S and E W are compared separately Typically E W pairs move up a table and boards are passed to the next lower table Howell movements are one winner movements Most of the players play N S sometimes and E W other times Web movements allow for
121. e tournament data base with information from the player file the typing data base It fills in the blanks with other information including address phone number ACBL rank unit number and recorded masterpoints a De c 6 Select DATA BASE Select IMPORT MERGE Select 2 Import from Another ACBLscore Data Base the default Select 3 Update blank fields only Do Not Add Players the default Accept ACBLSCOR PLAYER as the default path of the source of the update information Confirm with Y importing from ACBLSCOR PLAYER PLAYERN DAT 10 3 Checklist of Mandatory Procedures Nm SE p E IO co N 10 11 12 13 Choose one computer for data compilation Make sure previous tournament is completed sent to ACBL and archived on disk Reinitialize data basel Purge is not sufficient Add new tournament to data base Add each event to data base DBADD each session of all events Multi session events in chronological order Update tournament data base with Instant Membership ACBL numbers Merge non members va Must be done before final processing of a Continuous Pairs otherwise may be postponed until end of tournament Compare Tournament Setup Report to Tournament Worksheet to make sure that all events have been entered in data base Check Tournament Setup Report of UNDBADDed events to confirm that all sessions of all events have been DBADDed Generate Memphis Masterpoint Report iss back up da
122. e you must have selected a one winner movement by using option 4 in the main EDMOV menu before editing Option 11 allows you to print the movement so you may study it at your leisure Display or reassign board sequencing ACBLscore displays the location of the boards at the start of the game If boards are out of order simply specify the new board numbers at the appropriate locations and press F9 key to save your new board assignments See the example Increasing number of boards per round ss Display or reassign pair numbers This option permits you to change contestants pair numbers If you re running a 2006 American Contract Bridge League 32 ACBLscore Help 3 2 14 4 3 2 14 5 3 2 15 3 2 16 multiple session event where pairs will retain their numbers you may reassign their actual numbers Print guide cards If your movement is at all complex it may be in your best interest to provide some or all of your contestants with guide cards ACBL score will allow you to print guide cards for everyone If you prefer you may print specific guide cards If you ve already entered the names ACBLscore will print the players names on the guide cards something that players appreciate Save as a movement file If you re planning a special event that will have a custom designed movement you can design the movement in advance and save the result to a file You may also decide that you ve
123. eet 1 City State Zip Country Street 2 M wj Email NENNEN Cat Tar cke Start Date amp Paid Thru Last ACBL Update d j Fields that use this can be directly typed in or by clicking on the sl a drop down box will be displayed of the available valid options for this field You can then click on the option you need in the drop down box Fields that use this a are for date fields Where the date can be directly entered or by clicking on the EI a clender is displayed where you can click on the date you want to use 11 2 1998 Es 44 4 November 1998 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 111 5 1 9 8 Player Record At the top of this screen the title tells you what table you are currently accessing In this case it is the Players table The status bar immediately below it shows that you are in Club Mode where the table you are using is located the tables name and how many records are in it SRACBLSco re Players Database Club D ACBLSCOR PLAYERN DAT Contains 0 Records T Player Information Last Name First Name Player Street 1 City State Zip Country Street 2 Mw JI wj Email v Phone Start Date Paid Thru 4 Last ACBL Update Ll fe MASTER POINTS Total Year to Date Month to Date Recent Eligibility 0 00 0 00
124. elect ACBL rank is shown in the next screen Press space bar to tag the ones you want and F9 key when done are ACBL RANKS blank 0 5MPs Rookie A 5 20MPs Junior Master B 20 50MPs Club Master C 50 100 MPs Sectional Master D 100 MPs Regional Master E 200 MPs NABC Master red gold requirement F G H J K 300 500 MPs Life Master red gold requirement 500 1000 MPs Bronze LM must be LM 21000 2500 MPs Silver LM must be LM 22500 5000 MPs Gold LM must be LM 25000 10000 MPs Diamond LM 10000 MPs Grand LM See PIF By ACBL Rank Codesks screen Active date Restricting by Active Date You will be able to restrict the report within a range of dates If you wish to have no limit on the oldest date blank out the date with the space bar lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Data Base 147 5 3 13 4 5 3 13 5 Local active date is the last time the player has played in your game Note that all games should be DBADDed for this field to be accurate ACBL active date is the last date the Memphis files show that player winning masterpoints This is as accurate as the last Player Information File weg that you may have imported See PIF By ACBL Active Date og screen Category A or Category B Choosing from Category A or Category B The A and B category clusters allow you to classify your players One popular scheme is to use A categories to classify the players according to exp
125. entered and results printed use BACK ss to copy the STAC game file to a diskette The game file should be emailed to the Director in charge The DIC will process the reports and forward to ACBL headquarters You may DBADD STaC games as usual They will not be charged nor will masterpoints be reported on your monthly club reports to ACBL Unit games Setting up a Unit game is very similar to setting up a club masterpoint game Everything up to the selection of the event rating is the same However you should select number 4 Unit Game ALL from the event rating list After selecting the club enter the session number Then select the club session The next window asks you to choose from one of the three event restrictions 0 restrictions open 1 restriction Women Seniors Mixed etc 8096 2 restrictions Seniors and Women Mixed etc 70 Next ACBLscore will ask the total number of played sessions and whether there is a masterpoint restriction for the game If there is you will be asked to choose a lower and an upper limit by the next two windows The last question is the masterpoint colors Then the summary information window will be displayed Check the information on the window and enter the sanction number Press F9 key to go to the ACBLscore Scoring System screen You should DBADD 1 these special games as usual With the exception of Unit wide championships fees and masterpoints will be included with the club s
126. er start with the first round north east south and west player numbers and the board number respectively After your last answer ACBLscore will automatically prompt you for table 2 Press Enter key and repeat the same steps for tables 2 and 3 You have entered 12 of the 13 players At table 4 enter the sit out player as north and enter 14 15 16 for east south and west You can specify this table as phantom by entering 0 as the board number You are done with the first round You can enter the rest of the schedule as you did above or you can follow the steps given below Choose the latter alternative unless the schedule is short or not cyclic Press ESC twice you are back to the 12 item menu Select Edit pairs option 7 and the second option Propagate moving pairs from a model starting round 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 61 3 12 from the Select player edit window that just appeared on the screen and repeated below 1 Add a constant to moving pairs 2 Propagate moving pairs from a model starting round 3 Propagate stationary pairs from a model starting round 4 Swap N S and E W pairs all tables arrow switch The model starting round the round which you entered the seating is 1 and the ending round is 13 Next enter 1 to Low moving player number in cycle 13 to High moving player number in cycle and 1 to Moving pair increment since everybody was following the playe
127. er of teams within the same matching tolerance before a pairing is accepted is a configurable option 4 teams is the default Round Robin Round robin teams are matched before any regular matches without regard to posted status After the 3 RR teams are selected the rest of the teams are paired If the other teams cannot be paired the RR algorithm picks other teams until all teams can be paired RR teams pairing validity is identical to regular matches See 3 above The round robin repeat threshold is percent of spread between the current lowest and highest teams This is a configurable option Default setting is 65 A value of 0 will not check for previous RR attendance and will result in perfect pairing at the bottom A value of 10096 will not place teams in the round robin a second time unless it is impossible to pair all the teams without teams repeating in the RR These are the steps the algorithm takes 1 Select 3 teams from the bottom that have not previously been in the RR If any RR team s record is higher than the round robin repeat threshold go to 2 below 2 f 3 teams cannot be found using 1 above select 3 teams from the bottom without regard to previous attendance in the RR whose record is the round robin repeat threshold or lower 3 If 3 teams cannot be found using 2 above select 3 teams from the bottom without regard to previous attendance in the RR Allow any scores Matching tolerance This is the maximum diff
128. ere they are preduplicated and the director should answer this question with great care ACBLscore will then ask which E W pair plays board 1 As above in most club duplicates the answer will be Pair 1 Where boards are preduplicated and boards and possibly E W pairs move the answer will be different and the director will need to exercise some care The next question will be Phantom Pairs If you have a half table with a sitout e g in a ten table game there is no N S pair ten E W 10 shuffled boards 28 30 elect this option and tell ACBLscore the direction and number of the Phantom Pair Contrast this with the Rover s option Posting method ee allows you to choose whether travelers or pick ups are being used to score the game If you ve created a new event ACBLscore will ask you to choose the number of strata 1 unstratified 2 or 3 stratified You ll then be asked the event rating ssl ACBLscore want to know whether it s a club masterpoint game club championship or some other kind of event Next you ll indicate which club franchise is running the game and the session number s and indicate which sanctioned game for the session that you are using Finally you ll be allowed to edit such event information as the name session date director club number and name When the information is correct press F9 key ADJ Use ADJ to add or subtract outside score adjustments Entry is similar to the CO ssl command Outside sc
129. erence in score between 2 teams before a pairing will be accepted This applies only if at least 1 unposted teams s score is within range Matching tolerance is calculated based on the state of the event round number and the team s score relative to the current highest and lowest score Matching tolerance is expressed as a percent of the maximum score for 1 match For example 5096 is 15 VPs on a 30 point scale and 0 50 for win loss scoring Following is the default matching tolerance table Highest score 2nd round 0 last round 0 Lowest score 2nd round 2096 last round 8096 These 4 values are configurable options Example Round 4 8 rounds total 20 point VP scale Highest team s score 72 Lowest teams s score 10 For a score of 50 Matching tolerance for the highest team 72 is 0 lowest team 10 4 7 x 80 20 20 54 29 x 20 10 86 VPs Matching tolerance for our team 50 VPs is 72 50 72 10 x 10 86 3 85 VPs Ifa lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Game 83 3 20 5 6 3 20 6 minimum of 2 other posted teams within the range 46 15 to 53 85 exist 1 of them will be paired with our team only if at least 1 other team exists within matching tolerance of the other paired team Stationary teams A stationary team will not be paired with another stationary team during the first half of the event During the second half both team s score must be 60 of the difference between
130. erience and B categories according to the types of games that players play Rubber Bridge Limited Masterpoint games etc When you choose A or B category clusters as a restriction a new window will appear and ACBLscore will ask you which categories to include Tag the ones you want by pressing the space bar To include all press F8 key When finished press F9 key to tell ACBLscore that you are done See PIF By Category A Code ss screen See PIF By Category B Code ss screen Country code Restricting by Country Codes This option will allow you to choose players from countries As you select the Country codes ve they will be displayed under the heading SELECTED COUNTRY CODES When you are finished press Enter key If you press Enter key without entering any Country code ACBLscore will find no records to match your request Please note the effectiveness of this restriction largely reflects how thoroughly and accurately you maintain your data base See PIF By Country Code vg screen 2006 American Contract Bridge League 148 ACBLscore Help 5 3 13 6 5 3 13 7 5 3 13 8 5 3 13 9 District number Restricting by District Numbers This option will allow you to choose players from specific districts As you select the District numbers they will be displayed under the heading SELECTED DISTRICT NUMBERS When you are finished press Enter key If you press Enter key without entering any
131. ess F8 key for Merge answer Y to the confirmation question Accept the default last name to bring up the records to be merged Tag the records to be merged Press F9 key to accept In most data base operations the tag marks appear to the left of the data instead of to the right as they do in game file operations 10 If the player is listed with variant spellings of the name repeat process replacing default last name with variant spelling Tag as before Press F9 key to accept ip xo o0 10 14 Processing corrections 1 For single session events simply make the correction in the game file and DBADD again 2 For multi session events a Make the correction in the game file b Cross over and process corrected event as usual c DBADD again in order the corrected session and all sessions subsequent to the one with the correction If you have DBADDed all sessions of a multi session event and then reDBADD a corrected early session the program will change its flags to indicate the final session has not been DBADDed If you do not reDBADD the final session this event will appear on the report of events not DBADDed This is the program s method of reminding you to complete the correction process 3 For Continuous Pairs corrections before the overalls have been processed make the correction in the game file and DBADD only that session again 4 For Continuous Pairs corrections after the overalls have been DBADDed a UNDBadd the
132. f ACBL Players of non ACBL Players 0 ACBL Reports Financial NO Masterpoint NO Special game report printed no F1 Help F4 View Edit Club Game Records and Linked Attendance Records F3 Return to Main Club Definition Screen r5 Create a record for a sanctioned game which was not held Next Prey Find Top Last Edit Add Copy Delete Quit 5 2 9 3 Attendance Records At the top of this screen the title tells you what table you are currently accessing In this case it is the Attend table The status bar immediately below it shows that you are in Club Mode where the table you are using is located the tables name 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 121 ACB score Club Attendance Records _D ACBLSCOR ATTEND DAT Club 001 00 Club Name Not A Club Date J007 00 0000 Li Club Session In Section IA Event Session a Event Name Last Name First Name Player For Club Masterpoint Report to ACBL E MP Color MP Type MPs 000 Percent 000 Stratum E Direction E Pair Rank Boards F4 Return to Club Game Records F1 Help If you attempt to Edit Add Copy or Delete a record you will the following message Warning Changes to a players attendance record cannot be made here Make changes in the game file and DBADD again 5 2 9 4 Club Game Records
133. gged items Tagging item 3 Two columns will produce E W beside N S The default untagged will report E W below N S one column Tag 9 to produce a roster of all participants and if qualification by section fields is enabled the qualifers only will be output Tag 10 to save settings Settings that will be saved include output destination tagged items and if the output is a file the location and file name If 10 is tagged you will be prompted for the name of the configuration file This saved configuration can later be used by selecting 6 Use a saved configuration as the destination 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 27 If you selected Event overall rankers you can decide what information to include from the list 1 scores 2 masterpoints 3 KO match pairings 4 Percentages instead of scores 5 cities 6 states 7 player numbers 8 combine all strata 9 roster or qualifiers instead of event leaders 10 Save settings 11 Limit depth of event leaders 12 Club names STACs only Use the space bar to tag or untag information you wish to include A check mark appears beside the selected items in the above list indicates the default tagged items Item 43 KO match pairings will prompt you to enter team numbers that are playing matches in a knockout event This item has no effect on other events Tag 9 to produce a roster of all participants and if qualification by overall rank is enabled
134. h events may consist of more than 4 members and the same 4 players must play an entire session To specify team members who are sitting out use OUT Knockout teams A knockout event consists of a series of matches in which the winners advance and the losers are eliminated This progression continues until only one team remains the winner This type of competition works best when the original entry is a power of two 8 16 32 etc knockouts require a minimum of five teams Such fields permit all head to head matches between two teams the best kind of match possible However any number of teams can be accommodated through the use of three way matches Three way matches can be utilized in either of two ways either two teams advance and one is eliminated or one team advances and two are eliminated Since a team is out of the event when it loses a match the number of boards per match should require approximately the same time for play as a regular club session The minimum requirement is 18 boards ACBL recommends the use of IMP scoring 2006 American Contract Bridge League 76 ACBLscore Help 3 20 4 3 20 5 However the club may use total points raw score not converted to IMPs Round Robin teams Round robin events are especially suitable for a small number of teams as few as three and for contests that may run over several sessions In a complete round robin each team plays against all o
135. hat are to be connected for results entry and press F9 key From the results screen when a team number is entered all connected events will be searched for 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 29 the team A switch of events will occur if necessary and the cursor will then be properly placed 3 2 10 CH F7 key Down Up CH allows you to switch to a different section At the prompt enter the desired section letter Current Section A Available Sections ABC New Section B 3 2 11 CO CO is used to enter or correct carryover scores from a previous session The scores are entered with up to two decimal places of accuracy As carryover scores are entered the check total at the bottom will change to reflect the new carryovers Carryover scores are added directly to the final scores for each pair The carryover is e in calculating overall rankings but not in session ranking Compare with ADJ 241 You may enter the carryover scores in sequence by pressing the F6 key or from pair to pair by using the arrow keys and pressing Enter key to change the carryover When finished press the F9 key 3 2 12 CPAIR Sch can be used to extract final scores for continuous pairs For tournament use only 3 2 13 DBADD Ctrl D DBADD transfers information from this game file to the data base which contains records of the player s masterpoints percentage and information about the game for the monthly
136. he 1st session game file Pairs that started the event this session are sent to section C and D for the 3rd session Those that are finishing the event are sent to section E in the 3rd or 4th session for overall ranking only 99 any pairs that are treating this session as a side game 3rd session Set up sections C and D normally If using 4 sessions 99 any pairs that are treating this session as a side game and send all other eligible pairs to section E in the 4th session for overall ranking If using 3 sessions ADD section E as manually scored s2 average 0 to recieve the pairs that finished in the 2nd session Disable session ranks and masterpoints in section E SET F9 key Overall and session rank status Session rank status NO 1 XOV from the 1st session 2 XOV from the 2nd session This order of XOV is important If you have to XOV from the 1st session again XOV from the 2nd session also Field sizes for overall depth calculation will not be correct Use SET F9 key then 18 Specify field size for overall depth and enter the correct values Event ranks should work normally and include the manually scored section 4th session This is only necessary if any players play all three sessions Set up a new game file with section E as manually scored to receive all pairs for overall ranking see 3rd session above This will contain all the eligible pairs with their scores and masterpoints for the 2 sessions that they played Scores for an
137. he club and the number of masterpoints The following legend appears on the bottom of the receipt ACBL Members This is evidence of points earned not for recording Non members Remit this receipt 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 43 3 2 43 3 2 44 3 2 45 3 2 46 3 2 47 3 2 48 to ACBL after joining If the game is a NAP Club or Unit 7 level event use PCON to print qualification slips for the players that qualified to the next level Unit Qualification from Club level District Qualification from Unit level PDAT Use PDAT to enter datums when the scoring method is IMPs with predetermined datum The datum entry screen is identical to posting a round of pick ups and displays 36 boards regardless of how many boards are actually in play If you have fewer than 36 boards press ESC when finished IMP datums can be printed by using FREQ s PEVEN PEVEN allows you to send the event leaders to screen or printer The output includes percentages instead of matchpoints PMPS Use PMPS to modify the masterpoint holding of team members in knockout and bracketed round robin swiss events The average masterpoint holding of the highest team in the bracket is used to calculate masterpoints awards and pigmentation PRESS PRESS will produce a report of the final results The press will contain the pairs in order with their names numbers cities and states overall rank session rank
138. hould be a skip after 5 rounds However at the beginning of the 6th round E W pairs tell you that they have already played the boards which reminds you that you forgot to call the skip N S pairs saw their hands already therefore it is more sensible to move the boards to the next lower table which makes the same effect as players skipping instead of moving the players This requires some changes to be made in ACBLscore Use EDMOV and choose the second option Display or change movement The schedule of seating and the 12 item menu will be displayed The schedule clearly does not match the seating in your game at this point First you need to correct the E W player seating and then move the boards on the program Select option seven Edit pairs from the menu to start changing the seating so that ACBLscore will be consistent with your game After choosing Add a constant to moving pairs select direction of moving pairs from the alternatives presented to you Next ACBLscore will ask the starting and the ending round numbers the starting round number is 6 since the error occurred at round 6 The ending round number is 9 low 1 and high 10 moving pair number in cycle and the constant to add all moving pair numbers 1 You will be back to the Select Pair Edit Option window Press ESC and select edit boards from the 12 item menu Choose the first option Add a constant to board numbers from the Select Board Edit Option wi
139. ieval system or otherwise used or reproduced without the written permission of American Contract Bridge League except that you are allowed to make one archival backup copy of the program and player information file X ACBLScore Ej Game Movements Data Base Setup Help New 2 Utilities ACBLscore CB Version W7 40 05 18 2006 Copyright c 1991 2006 ACBL i Written by Jim Lopushinsky SC Fi Help Use Mouse to Pick Click Item to Select Click X to Exit Club Mode _ D YACELSCOR DBASE The Game menu option gives you the ability to add or edit bridge games and each game s particular parameters Such as Type of Game Number of Rounds Players etc Commonly referred to as to DBADD See A variety of game Movements s can be displayed or printed including individual pair guide cards The incorporation of the data base a to ACBLscore allows you to maintain accurate 2006 American Contract Bridge League 10 ACBLscore Help information on players and games and also enables easy access to valuable data such as attendance records and masterpoint lists Update Find Players efe Club Setup P Maintenance e Reports Exports ACEL Reports di Import Merge Setup si allows you to set the following options ET je Set Screen Font EF Tournament Club Mode w Allow Edit of Names in Game File w Allow Auto Stratification TE
140. ill only copy records without player numbers Copy allows for easy production of records for family members 5 1 3 Data record Contents of Player Data Record The name address and phone information means just what it says The Last Active category tells you when the player last won points at your club Local category and how current the player s grand total was updated with information from the ACBL The Gender category is blank Note the starting date The date notes when this player record was introduced into this data base The list of Group Codes and Numbers is blank when the record is first created You may define whatever Group Codes you wish If you run a supervised play you could classify each player in your data base with an SP group code and specify which sessions they attend with the group number M Monday T Thursday S Saturday MT Monday and Thursday etc 5 1 4 Edit Using Edit Edit allows you to change the contents of a player s record The arrow keys permit easy movement among fields and facilitate modification of existing information within 2006 American Contract Bridge League 102 ACBLscore Help a field When you are satisfied with the changes press F9 key or click on Done To abort the editing process press the Escape key The record will revert to its pre editing form Edit group codes Using F3 key to edit groups F3 key allows you to assign group codes and numbe
141. int cross over destination table Print short press sheet one page Assign strata to pairs Summaries Edit event information Transfer names from a different game file Traveler format scores report with names Restore a backed up or exported game file Undo DBADD command Ctrl U View boards Display version that created this game file WORLD Create files for WBF world wide matchpointing XOV o ADD Ctrl A Cross over from a previous session Use ADD to add a new section When adding a new section ACBLscore asks many questions about the movement posting method number of tables etc After using 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 23 the ADD command the SET A command may be used to change parameters You may add up to 100 sections to a game file For a new event ACBLscore will want to know whether it s an individual pair team home style or board a match game ACBLscore has the capability of having all five types of events coexisting in the same file ACBLscore then prompts you for the section letter and color see the SET aa command and then goes into the Section setup procedure If you ve already created another section ACBLscore will let you choose which event to attach the new section to or allow you to create a new event You will then be asked to choose which sort of movement will be used 1 Mitchell 2 Howell 3 Web 4 External 5 Barometer 6 Manuall
142. ion letters and names of that session will be displayed for you to tag the ones you want by pressing space bar or F8 key to tag all Suggestions for web publishing 1 Bulletin for regular club masterpoint games and both 1 Bulletin and 2 Event for Club Championship or other events that have an overall rank Next you will need to select the destination of output which can be one of the following 1 Screen 2 Printer 3 File for current printer 4 File with tabs and codes 5 Text file with spacing and headings 6 Use a saved configuration file 7 HTML file for posting on the internet If option 3 4 5 or 7 is selected ACBLscore will ask you where to store i e file location and what to name the file Use option 1 Screen to preview what the output will look like To post results on the web select option 7 HTML file and when prompted for width specify 72 Next if you selected section rankers the bulletin option in the first list above you can decide what information to incude from the list 1 scores 2 masterpoints session awards only 3 Two columns N S E W 4 Percentages instead of scores 5 cities 6 states 7 player numbers 8 combine all strata 9 roster or qualifiers instead of section leaders 10 Save settings 11 Limit depth of section leaders Use the space bar to tag or untag information you wish to include A check mark appears beside the selected items in the above list indicates the default ta
143. is not 999 Number of segments this match For the extremely rare situation where a match is broken into 2 segments round robin spanning the break and sit outs are different for each segment Swiss team pairing algorithm Swiss team pairings in ACBLscore is performed as the matches are posted from the previous round After the results of each match is posted ACBLscore tests for possible pairings using the following algorithm Teams are never re matched Here are the steps ACBLscore takes 1 Sort all the teams in score order without regard to posting status highest team first If any teams have the same score they are randomly sorted 2 Match all the teams from the top without regard to posting status using the swiss pairing procedure specified in the Tech files SWSTMS 2 pg 3 See below for odd number of teams 3 Examine each pairing for validity as follows a Disregard any pairing in which either team is unposted b If both teams records are higher or lower than any other possible score from an unposted team out of range accept the pairing C If any other unposted team s score is within range If a minimum of 4 posted and unpaired teams have a score within the calculated matching tolerance of both the paired teams accept the pairing leave at least 1 team with the same 2006 American Contract Bridge League 82 ACBLscore Help score See Matching tolerance below The minimum numb
144. istent It copies the event name the tournament name and the tournament city from the data base back into the game file 1 Setup events in data base 2 In each game file use CFIG4 3 Process data for Bulletin as usual Viewing attendance records This procedure allows research of DBADDed data by player or by event Although the program allows editing of masterpoint data in the attendance records errors 2006 American Contract Bridge League Tournament Result Reporting 195 should not be corrected in this fashion Instead fix the error in the game file and DBADD again See Processing corrections hoi If the masterpoints of only one member of a pair or team need to be adjusted use MPED 4 in the game file Viewing by individual 1 2 3 4 5 Select DATA BASE Select TOURNAMENT PLAYER DATA BASE Use F for FIND type last name of player to be researched or press F2 key to search by ACBL player number Select desired player from box a Press F4 key List of attendance records will appear to see complete detail use F for Find to select specific attendance records b Press F5 key List of attendance records generating overall ranks will appear use F as above for details of specific records F7 key prints the attendance record on screen Note You should not need to use the Change event linkage option Do not use it unless you thoroughly understand this process
145. it is generally suggested to swap about half of the field After you use EDXOV 1 a window at the top of the screen will appear Type A E next to A N gt and A N next to A E gt This assigns the N S pairs in section A to E W in section A and the E W pairs to N S in section A In two section cross overs the first session N S s become E W at the same section and first session E W s become N S at the same table in the other section To do so press Enter to the default at the global cross over data window The default assigns section A N S s to section A E W A N gt A E The cursor will move to E W cross over Type B N and press Enter Pressing the F9 key will save your global cross over and allow you to edit specific cross overs within each section A new window that has the names of the players and the cross overs will be displayed Change the cross overs manually by highlighting the pair pressing Enter and typing the seat that you want them to go If you want to assign seats to every pair manually press F6 key for sequential entry To indicate a single session pair highlight their name press Enter and type 99 for next session assignment Repeat this for every single session pair If you have made any errors in entering the cross overs such as assigning more than one player to the same seat ACBL score will inform you when you press F9 key at the names window To print the seat assignments in the recaps you need to include pres
146. iting events already setup Bring the event to be edited to the screen by using FIND Press E for EDIT use arrow keys to move to the error then correct Select F9 key to accept corrections If the event to be edited has already been DBADDed some fields in event setup will be locked To edit these fields it is necessary to UNDBadd the event Generating Memphis Masterpoint Report Complete all DBADDing Select DATA BASE Select REPORTS Select 7 TOURNAMENT SETUP then select correct tournament Generate report of UNDBADDed events which should show none ae to m 2006 American Contract Bridge League Tournament Result Reporting 189 Generate report of all events to compare to tournament worksheet Note Sectionally and Regionally rated Knockout events will show 2 as the number of DBADDed sessions even though the event correctly was set up with a greater number of sessions ESC back to DATA BASE menu Select MEMPHIS MASTERPOINT REPORT Choose correct tournament Accept default location and filename ACBLscore will name the Memphis report sanc REP and will put itin ACBLSCOR TOURNDB For NABCs only regional events generate a tournament summary report for the tournament The summary report is generated from each game file when the final sessions are DBADDed or by using the BUL command option 3 The BACKUP RESTORE procedure expects this summary report to be named sanc SUM and to be
147. ity no hand records sectional rating Usually in conjunction with a Charity game at an NABC Select this if the game is not held during the regular ACBL wide event ACBL wide International Fund no hand records sectional rating 1 2 red points Often in conjuction with the same event at an NABC Select this if the game is not held during the regular ACBL wide event Sectional Tournament at Clubs STaC or Prog Sectional This displays a second pick list Sectional tournament at clubs for sectionals at the clubs back up ss of game files and sanction fees to the coordinating director Progressive Sectional Club qualifying stage for finals that are held in a central location 10 Bridge Plus mini duplicates for students 11 Pupil Game short games in conjuction with lessons 12 Introductory Game short games used for first time duplicate 13 No masterpoints for use in any game not sanctioned by the ACBL Movement Errors Select help on one of the following examples Pair sits the wrong direction se Increasing number of boards per round se Adding a table or pair to a Howell sl Forgot to call the skip ssl Errors in Rover Movements sl Adding a table or pair to a Howell You set up your game on the computer for 4 tables 7 rounds and 4 boards per round Howell movement and the game started However two new pairs show up For five tables normally they are supposed to pl
148. key when done If a player record has any of the eXcluded codes that player will not be included in the report For example let s say your group categories are SP XP UP and NP You instructed to include the players that are in group SP or UP and to exclude the ones that are in NP If a player is both groups SP and NP then ACBLscore will exclude him her since exclusion has higher priority than inclusion If a player is in only UP one of the groups to be included he she will be included In other words including SP and UP will cause the players who are either in SP or UP or both to be included 5 3 13 10 Mail code Selecting Mail Code When you first entered the players to your data base you have either put an M to their mail code or left it empty The purpose of this code is to give flexibility to you by allowing you to put whoever you want to in your mailing list This selection parameter allows you to select players whose mail code has or does not have an M See PIF By Mail Code 1 screen 5 3 13 11 Masterpoints Restricting by masterpoints With this option ACBLscore is giving you the flexibility to limit your selection of players to a certain masterpoint point group instead of a certain rank You can test total masterpoint holding year to date month to date or recent masterpoints Type in the lower and upper limit of masterpoints to which you want to limit your player selection 2006 American Contra
149. l ask you which group code to remove from all players and will want you to confirm your choice The number of records read and deleted will be displayed on the screen after the deletion Repair damaged Data Base Reindex Repairing Damaged Data Base and Reindexing This option rebuilds the indices indexes associated with the data base ACBLscore will be able to search more quickly for a player with the restored index If an index for the data base becomes damaged ACBLscore will return nonmatching records in response to your search requests Use this command to rebuild the indices If a considerable number of records have been deleted from your data base reindexing will purge these files from your machine Reset masterpoint fields Reset Masterpoint Settings to Zero This option allows you to set masterpoint counters back to zero for any of the four categories Recent Month to Date Year to Date and Total This command is especially helpful in running short term contests Before commencing the contest 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 159 reset the Recent masterpoints to zero After running the contest and producing all reports reset the Recent category for the next contest This utility will permit you to reset the Recent Month to Date Year to Date and Total point counters for all the player files in your data base Resetting the Recent points counter allows you to make your own decision
150. l move e After round 7 special move 2 again e All other rounds normal 1615 16 tables 15 rounds First session Actually two S0815 movements combined into one section 2 board sets must be duplicated with tables 1 8 and 9 16 having their own set of boards See S0815 for details 1616 16 tables 16 rounds Second session Actually two S0816 movements combined into one section 2 board sets must be duplicated with tables 1 8 and 9 16 having their own set of boards See S0816 for details 4 3 5 8 17 players S0207 8 player individual 7 rounds Constant relay between both tables This movement is from Duplicate Bridge Direction by Alex Groner S0309 9 player individual 9 rounds Each player sits out once Constant relay between both tables From Official ACBL table mats S0310 10 player individual 10 rounds Each player sits out twice Constant relay between both tables From Official ACBL table mats S0311 3 tables 11 rounds Continuous board relay between all three tables Useable only with 3 board rounds for a total of 33 boards Can be curtailed at any time S0311A 3 tables 11 rounds No board relay This movement can be set up with 2 or 3 boards per round S0413 13 player individual 13 rounds Each player sits out once From Official ACBL table mats S0412 4 tables 12 rounds From Movements a fair approach 2006 American Contract Bridge League 96 ACBLscore Hel
151. lative total of a team s wins without regard to winning or losing ties Fractional part of wins can only show ties 5 and 2 are 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 85 equivalent and show a tie Posting examples 5 wins 4 5 A wins 42 24 5 wins The SCORE column is the team s final score including winning and losing ties Losing tie 25 post as 1 Tie 5 post as 2 winning tie 75 post as 3 Posting examples 5 5 wins 4 1 24 25 wins 5 3 25 75 wins See also Victory point posting e4 and Knockout posting el 2006 American Contract Bridge League Movements 87 4 Movements A variety of game movements can be displayed or printed including individual pair guide cards The following movements are available in the Movements command Mitchell Howell Relay bye stand Rover Mitchell both N S and E W rover Rover bye stand again both N S and E W rover External pair individual and Board A Match If you are running a Rover movement you can print the guide cards for the Rover Movement during the first round Note that the roving pair can start at any table you desire for round 2 in the standard Rover Mitchell movements The starting table for a Rover in a bye stand on the other hand is determined by the location of the bye stand Guide cards can also be printed for unusual Howell movements for which you do not have table markers o
152. lect Board Edit Option window and Save and Exit from the next window If there is an error in the movement ACBLscore will give you a warning and ask you whether you want to see the errors If there are no errors you will be back to Select EDMOV options window Multi Session Games Note Events of 2 or more sessions must be Club Championship or higher rating Set up the first session as usual However your answer to the question on total number of sessions and therefore a few questions asked by ACBLscore will be different After you enter the total number of sessions ACBLscore is going to ask the session 2006 American Contract Bridge League 62 ACBLscore Help number of the game that is currently being set up This is 1 for the first session Then it will ask for a four digit event code a code that is not being used by other events will be suggested by the program The same code should be used in all sessions of the event since it will be utilized to connect them This connection will not only allow the transfer of names and carryovers from one session to the next but also used in storing the information to the data base At some point during the first session use EDXOV Edit cross over This will allow you to assign the players starting position for the next session The seating should be such that the players will not play against the same set of opponents If there is only one section
153. llows you to remove players who have never played based on attached attendance records You can use this feature for example to remove players after you import a player information file to remove those players that do not play in your club 5 4 4 Reinitialize Database Reinitializing the data base This option which includes the options below can be used to easily remove attendance club game percentage and player group records from the data base Remove all attendance records Remove all club attendance and percentage records Remove all percentage records Remove all club game and attendance records Remove all player group records Reinitialize entire data base e 9H oIm 2006 American Contract Bridge League 158 ACBLscore Help 5 4 5 5 4 6 5 4 7 Q Se ka data base reinitialize option 1 Remove ALL attendance records 2 Remove ALL Club attendance and percent records 3 Remove ALL percent records 4 Remove ALL Club game and attendance records 5 Remove ALL player group records 6 Reinitialize ENTIRE data base Cancel Remove unwanted group codes Removing unwanted Group codes If you stop using one or more of the group codes you have created this option provides an easy way to delete them from every player s record ACBLscore will suggest to back up the data base since it might be very difficult without the back up to find out who were in the group that you deleted Then it wil
154. located in ACBLSCOR TOURNDB 10 10 Generating specialized masterpoint lists Qmd o m 7 8 9 Select DATA BASE Select REPORTS EXPORT Select 1 Masterpoint List Choose either 4 Recent Total or 5 Specific Tournament Events Include cities if desired Restrict report as desired If only an unrestricted list of masterpoints won at this tournament is desire press F9 key Otherwise a Choose any appropriate restriction Tag or enter data as requested b Additional restriction categories may be selected Multiple restriction categories create a logical AND i e only records which match all restrictions will be included in the report For information on group restrictions see Using group codes ss Note For any of these restrictions to be effective Augmenting tournament data base tes with information from the player file must be completed beforehand Select sort method Limit size of report if desired This limits the report output but not the number of data base records examined Enter desired report title send to screen printer or file as desired 10 11 Group codes A general description for club managers of the use of group codes may be found in Using the F3 key hoa Group codes may be added by game attendance as well as individually Group No is a subgroup code which can further categorize players within a group Group codes and group numbers may be any alphanumeric characters 1 To add gr
155. lp Now you may enter the names After selecting a name ACBLscore will display the number of percentages found and the average If that player doesn t have the minimum number of percentages ACBLscore will ask for your guess on their average percentage game or their desired handicap percentage To assist you a Handicap table s7 is available Press F9 key to accept the revised handicap figure IMP Ctrl I IMP allows you to import an event from another game file Use this when you use more than one computer at the same time to run your games Use BACK 25 on one of the computers to copy the game file to diskette then IMPort the game file from diskette into the game on the other computer Section letters should be different otherwise sections in the target game file will be overwritten with the source game file KILL Use KILL to remove a section you may have created in error ACBLscore will double check to ensure you intend this drastic action LAST Ctrl L LAST allows you to go back and forth between two game files without typing the file name or combing through all the old game files in your directory LATE LATE gives you a full report of all late plays entered while posting for all sections within the game file This report makes it easy to track and address the late plays in 2006 American Contract Bridge League 40 ACBLscore Help 3 2 31 3 2 32 3 2 33 3 2 34 your game See
156. mally used to copy game files from diskette to your hard drive or to restore game files after using BACH Masterpoint Charts Use this to print masterpoint award charts for Sectional and higher rated events and for Multi site club championships 2006 American Contract Bridge League 180 ACBLscore Help 9 Country State Province Codes Select table to view State Codes hs2 Canadian Province Codes e Mexican State Codes lei Country Codes n 9 1 Canadian Province Codes AB Alberta BC British Columbia MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NL Newfoundland and Labrador NS Nova Scotia NT Northwest Territories NU Nunavut ON Ontario PE Prince Edward Island QC Quebec SK Saskatchewan YT Yukon Territory 9 2 Country Codes A Austria FJ Fiji AC Ascension FN Finland AD Andorra FP French Polynesia AF Afghanistan FR France AG Algeria G Guinea AH Anguilla GB Great Britain Al Antigua and Barbuda GE Germany AN Albania GH Ghana AO Angola GI Gibraltar AT Argentina GL Greenland AU Australia GM Gambia BA Bahamas GN Grenada BB Barbados GO Gabon BD Burundi GP Guadeloupe BE Bermuda GR Greece BG Bulgaria GS Guinea Bissau BH Bahrain GT Guatemala BI British Crown Colony GY Guyana BL Belgium HD Honduras BM Burma HK Hong Kong BN Benin HT Haiti BO Bolivia HU Hungary BR Brazil IC Iceland BS Bangladesh IE Ireland MW Morocco Mauritania Maldives Malawi Mexico Malaysia Mozambique Namibia Netherlands Antilles Nigeria Ni
157. match your request Please note the effectiveness of this restriction largely reflects how thoroughly and accurately you maintain your data base See PIF By Unit Number 3 screen 2006 American Contract Bridge League 152 ACBLscore Help 5 3 14 Sorting Keys Sorting Keys Two things make for an effective report choosing the right records and presenting the selected records in a useful fashion The sort keys allow you to organize the selected records in a number of ways Below are the various sort keys and some explanations regarding the reasons you might choose them and the reports that offer them 1 Surname Presents the selected players alphabetically by surname These reports allow the reader to locate a player and the related information quickly The Phone Lists are always organized by name You can sort by surname when creating a complete list producing mailing labels making a masterpoint list or for a custom report You may also use surname to sort monthly club masterpoint reports for members or non members 2 Postal Zip Code Lists organized by Postal Zip Code allow you to identify players from the same neighbourhoods This sort key is especially useful for producing mailing labels since you may wish to bundle mail by Postal Zip Code Available for complete lists mailing labels and custom reports 3 Unit Number The reader can see at a glance players with the same unit affiliation This sort ke
158. mes in Game File sierpien aco etre erret coop fe eta rne aara Aaaa oo ap err tob ioo parcet ye EENS 167 Printer Configuration cc heiratete to eet dace etic pate tete ce UE ux Rae gectustey sccutvucdentebeuecs 167 Set Path c E E E E E E 167 Set Screen Font orram 168 Tournament Club Mode ss inininnnrnnerrnneennnnnnres 168 Club d TE 168 Tournament MO M 168 Non ACBL Mode Help New ACBL Handbook 171 ACBLScore chute 171 Delete error messages 172 Help NOW TO USC vitiosa 172 Look at ertor messages tu 173 New TOAtU SS 22s ee 173 I demlrrce seen ne eee eaa Eaa 173 Utilities 176 Backup Restore 176 Backup and Delete Game Files oana aaran araea areenaan aooaa Erare aaea Aaaa ete SEENEN 177 Backup Data Base EM 177 2006 American Contract Bridge League Part IX Part X D M Oo Om P QN sch ech sch sch sch oon od ech coo M OA BB N qo Contents VII Backup data base archive e 177 Backup Game Files c 177 Backup Game Files Selective 222202 lt cce
159. more than one set of boards to be played and ensures that all participants play all the boards However they require an even number of tables An External Movement allows you to use movements of specific design created by you or resident in the computer 2006 American Contract Bridge League 64 ACBLscore Help With Barometer everybody plays the same board at the same time and the results are compared after every round therefore letting players know their standing round by round Use Manually Scored to enter the final scores for a game scored by hand You will then be asked for the number of tables Note that ACBLscore supports sections up to 40 tables and up to 80 boards in play The next two questions are the maximum number of played rounds and the number of boards per round Default answers to these questions are provided by the program If you have selected Mitchell Movement ACBLscore at this point will ask you whether you are using a Standard Mitchell a Rover Mitchell or depending on the number of tables an Appendix Mitchell If you select Rover Mitchell which allows you to add a late pair without adding an additional set of boards you need to indicate the direction of the roving pair and the table at which they start If you have an even number of tables and want to use relay bye stand movement select Mitchell Movement and set the number of rounds equal to the number of tables note that the
160. ndow Change the starting round number to 6 and ending round number to 9 Low board number in cycle is 1 and the high one is 30 Since it is a 3 board per round movement change the constant to add to board numbers to 3 After you are done check the schedule to see whether you have achieved what you were trying to do Then select save and exit from the 12 item menu If there is an error ACBLscore will inform you if not you will be back to the EDMOV options menu Increasing number of boards per round You have arranged your game for 8 1 2 tables 9 rounds and three boards per round Mitchell Movement E W s are going to play 24 boards and N S s 27 Even though two pairs did not show up yet you start the game Later on you learn that the two pairs will not be able to come to the game at all which reduces your number of tables to 7 1 2 Thinking that 21 boards for E W s and 24 boards for N S s are not enough you decide to add one more board per round Normally table 1 should play boards 1 through 4 in the first round however table 2 already started playing boards 4 through 6 You figure out that board 25 should go to table 1 26 to table 2 and so on as the fourth board In other words boards will be played out of sequence 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 59 This needs to be reflected in ACBLscore Set up the game as 8 tables with pair 8 N S phantom Use EDMOV Select Display or reassign board se
161. ne that has the words will be placed at the top of the screen To print the explanations of the feature press F7 key when you are at the table of contents screen F7 key will print the entire page that your selection is on To print all of the new features select All new features in the table of contents and press F7 key Technicolor files The Tournament Technicolor files are now available and can be accessed under Help New of the Main Menu You can access the Tech files via the Index to provide easy access to the topic of your choice At the right side the file name and page number of the item is shown You can use the arrow keys or PgDn PgUp to scroll through the index You can also press the first letter of the item you want to 2006 American Contract Bridge League 174 ACBLscore Help select to skip the other items To view a topic of interest press Enter after you highlight it If you are looking for a specific topic press F2 key for find A small window will ask for the text to find This text will be searched in the index and if found that item will be highlighted if not you will be informed as such Even though the text you entered is found if that topic is not what you are looking for you can press F3 to repeat the search process on the remaining index Find Ctrl F also works when you are viewing a topic Type the text you are looking for If ACBLscore finds a match the screen will shift
162. ned sections or specific sections ROUND ROUND functions identically to ENTER except ACBLscore will return you to the same section after posting rather than advancing you to the next section RPRES RPRES will produce a report of the final results The press will contain the pairs in order with their names numbers overall rank session rank carryover session score percentage adjustment stratification and previous or next session assignment These reports are suitable for ACBL processing ACBLscore will ask how many copies you want If you are producing presses for the ACBL be sure to top set the paper place the perforation just above where the printing head is located Use PRESS oi if you want cities and states SCORE SCORE rescores the game SET F9 key SET gives you control over any of the game parameters The options are 0 Specify section rank depth may only be used when masterpoints are not enabled 1 Change posting method ss allows you to change the medium used for reporting results allows travelers pickups or a combination 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 45 2 Change number of played rounds used to curtail a game if you wish to increase the number of rounds use option 5 to change movement parameters 3 Change section letter and or color 4 Qualification Eligibility 1 allows you to qualify pairs on the basis of section rank or overall rank
163. ng attendance records ei Merging Data Bases lied Using Group codes hs Remember that the data in the Memphis Masterpoint Report produced at your tournament will generate the masterpoint awards for your players The accuracy of their awards depends directly on the care and attention you give to these data reporting procedures Adding player number to existing non member player record Use this procedure to add an Instant Membership number to non member records or to add the ACBL number to the data base in the case where the player s number was not properly researched during game typing 1 Select DATA BASE 2 Select TOURNAMENT PLAYER DATA 3 Use F for FIND type player s last name select among the choices given if the last name appears more than once press Enter key to make the record current on the screen 4 Use E for EDIT insert player into record Press F9 key to accept amended record If the message Player already exists in data base appears press ESC choose Y to abandon changes Find out why the number already exists 2006 American Contract Bridge League Tournament Result Reporting 185 If the number you are trying to enter is incorrect look up the correct number and repeat this procedure If the player already has a record in the data base with the correct number see procedure for Merging non members we 10 2 Augmenting tournament data base This procedure will augment th
164. number or board number after a certain round or edit specific information from a determined point in the game Option 3 gives you the ability to print guide cards for any or all pairs If you ve already entered the names ACBLscore will customize the guide cards by printing the names of the pairs on their respective guide cards Option 4 will save the modified movement you ve created as an external movement file which permits you to recall the movement should you need it later Option 5 displays the pair numbers You may change specific pair numbers and save your changes Option 6 Howell only allows you to add an appendix pair or table to an existing game Display or change movement If a pair goes to the wrong table or sits the wrong way or a table plays boards they weren t supposed to play that round use the Display or change movement to bring ACBLscore up to date about how your game now looks 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 31 3 2 14 2 3 2 14 3 Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the spreadsheet Across the top the Round numbers are listed and down the left are the Table numbers Each group of three numbers tells a tale of what happens at each table each round The first number tells which N S pair is at each table for the round The second is the E W pair at the table for the round The third number tells you the lowest board number played that round The first four options
165. o a Text file for further processing with a different program See Generic Report Selectable Restrictions wad screen Custom Report How to Make a Custom Report In a custom report you may select not only what kind of players are included but what sort of information reported The final product can be sent to the printer screen or Text file A custom report can produce a printed copy with whichever details you wish You ll be asked which fields to include You can list the street city state Zip Code player number phone numbers Group Codes and Group Numbers a category called codes which includes A and B category clusters ACBL rank and something called Mail Status Unit number Total MP Year to Date MP Month to Date MP Recent MP Percentages for selected session from a specified date or Session Points for selected sessions from a specified date There isn t room for all these categories and you ll only want the categories that matter On the middle of the screen ACBLscore will show the current print width and the maximum width it will help you keep the report slim and fit After designing your report it s time to choose the order the players will be listed alphabetically by Postal Zip Code Unit Number Group Code alphabetically Group Code by Group Number or by player number You can use all the player records or restrict which records are used by using the general Selection Parameters had You can watch
166. o a temporary location on your computer then you will choose from the following options Update blank fields add players not found in the target data base Add players not found in the target data base only no update Update blank fields only do not add players Update blank fields attendance Mps add players not found od i aa The first 3 options will import only player records from the source The last option will import all records including club records and attendance records Another ACBLscore Data Base Importing from another Data Base This utility allows you to update your data base with information from another ACBLscore data base Then choose one of the following options which are self explanatory that are presented by ACBLscore Update blank fields add players not found in the target data base Add players not found in the target data base only no update Update blank fields only do not add players Update blank fields attendance Mps add players not found et Ir oe ACBLscore will ask you the location of the data base next Comma delimited file Import a comma delimited file Use this to import a comma delimited file into ACBLscore This is a standard file type that most data base software such as Microsoft Access DBASE etc can export ACBLscore can also export a comma delimited file You will first be asked to specify the location of the import file Next you will be asked to specify the action to take on yo
167. ore adjustments are added to the pairs session total and as such affect session ranking Negative or positive values are allowed The screen displays the pairs Use the F6 key to Begin Sequential Entry This key allows you to enter outside score adjustments for each pair in the event in turn To select specific pairs use the arrow keys to select the pair then press Enter key and enter the adjustment for the pair When finished press the F9 key See also Manually scored games s AREP Use AREP to print a report to send to ACBL Headquarters for a special game The report should be completed and signed and submitted to ACBL in Memphis together with any monies due within 48 hours of completion of the game 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 25 Normally when you DBADD a special game ACBLscore prompts you to print the special game report so the AREP command should only be used if the report was not printed when you DBADDed BACK Ctrl B Use BACK to back up the current game file to a floppy disk This command is used for STaCs and at Tournaments Use this command to make a copy of the current game file to diskette Use Copy game files s to copy the game file back from diskette to the hard drive BOARD F10 key BOARD displays the result of a specific board including matchpoints if the section was scored It can be used to make score corrections If you see a mistake while VIEWing the boards y
168. ou can use BOARD to correct it ACBLscore will ask you the board number Entering the board number will take you to a screen which at the top gives the section letter board number vulnerability and top Below this line there are four columns N S pair number score from N S perspective E W pair number and the matchpoints earned by N S At the bottom of the screen enter the N S pair number whose score is wrong Then you will be asked the score of the pair enter the score Next there will be N S pair prompt at the bottom of the screen again to let you change the scores of any other pair on the same board If the rest of the scores are right press ESC This time there will be Board prompt which allows you to check other boards Press ESC or zero to quit BUL BUL can be used to print only the overall or section winners for your monthly bulletin or for some other reason This command was originally designed to produce output for daily tournament bulletins A window with the following options will appear on the screen 1 Bulletin section rankers roster or qualifiers 2 Event overall rankers KO pairings roster or qualifiers 3 Tourn Top 2 overalls 4 Tourn Top 3 overalls 5 Sectop Section Winners 6 Press release for winners 7 If you select any of these options and the game file has more than one section the 2006 American Contract Bridge League 26 ACBLscore Help sect
169. ou stratified the game you will be asked the upper masterpoint limits for each stratum with different windows Subsequently ACBLscore will ask whether a novice 0 20 game is being held in a different section concurrent with this game if it is not already a novice game If you originally set up the game at the Club Setup as handicapped ACBLscore will present two options which will allow you to have the game either as handicapped or normal no handicaps If you choose the handicapped option you will be asked the number of rankings that you want to have You can select one ranking which includes handicap or two rankings one with the other without handicap Then you will need to determine the type of handicap which can be matchpoints boards or percentage based on previous performance If you choose percentage based on previous performance ACBLscore will ask whether you allow negative handicaps Finally event information such as the session date director club number and name will be displayed in the Tournament data for event number window Press the 2006 American Contract Bridge League 66 ACBLscore Help 3 14 3 15 ESC key or F9 key if the information is correct You will be back to the ACBLscore Scoring System screen that now displays information on the type of movement number of tables boards in play etc You can use the commands a that are listed on the bottom of the screen
170. ound because table 7 will have boards 1 14 stationary Computer set up for 13 rounds with 28 boards in play S0721 7 table Rainbow 7 rounds Players rotate clockwise around North Computer set up for 21 rounds of 1 board 32 36 players R0807 8 tables 7 rounds Appendix Mitchell The highest set of boards 29 32 for 4 board round is stationary on table 8 Boards move normally for the other 7 tables going from table 1 to table 7 R0808 8 tables 8 rounds Boards are distributed normally and move normally after each round 0807 8 tables 7 rounds Appendix The highest set of boards 29 32 for 4 board round is stationary on table 8 Boards move normally for the other 7 tables going 2006 American Contract Bridge League Movements 93 from table 1 to table 7 0812 8 tables 12 rounds From Movements a fair approach 0815 8 tables 15 rounds First session This movement brings together as partners two groups playing the same 30 boards assembled on a bye table Players 1 16 and 17 32 meet in their respective groups in an irregular progression No boards are distributed Instead the North player at each table gets the indicated set of boards from the assembly table When the round is completed North returns the set to the assembly table This procedure is standard for each of the 15 rounds S0816 8 tables 16 rounds Second session This movement brings together as partners two grou
171. oup codes by game attendance 2 DBADD games to be coded lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League 190 ACBLscore Help Select DATA BASE Select MAINTENANCE Select Add Group Codes based on game attendance Tag desired games create code when prompted To add group codes or group numbers to individual records 1 Select DATA BASE 2 Select UPDATE FIND club mode or TOURNAMENT PLAYER DATA BASE tournament mode Use F to locate individual to be added to group Press F3 key to access groups Use A for Add E for Edit or D for Delete as appropriate Press F3 key to exit group editing D Jew gi eoi o 10 12 Merging Data Bases Three sources may be used to add update records in a data base Instructions for the use of each source are in Importing an ACBL Information File hea Importing from another Data Base es and Importing from a Data Base backup ea Comments When the source is an ACBL information file it may be located on any drive and path including where the target data base is located Importing from this type of file will add all players in the information file to the target data base The information to be added and updated may be selected from a list of five categories When the source is a data base back up it is usually on a diskette but may be located on any drive and path When the source is another data base it must be in a separate subdirectory F
172. p 4 4 S0412A 4 tables 12 rounds Constant relay between tables 3 and 4 From Official ACBL table mats 0415 4 tables 15 rounds From Movements a fair approach 0513 17 player individual 13 rounds Players 1 13 sit out once From Official ACBL table mats Rover Movements Movements contains a large assortment of Rover Mitchell movements These are half table games using a Mitchell movement with a bumping N S pair In all movements the bumping pair takes the next higher N S pair number For example in a 10 table Rover movement the Roving pair is 11 N S This pair has a bye the first round and comes into play for round 2 displacing pair 2 N S for that round In this Appendix the notation TT RR refers to a specific movement where TT stands for the number of tables and RR is the number or rounds For example 10 9 refers to a 10 table Rover movement played 9 rounds Available Rover movements 7 6 7 7 8 6 Skip after round 4 8 7 Skip after round 4 9 8 9 9 E W pairs 6 and 9 do not move in a regular fashion 10 8 Skip after round 5 10 9 Skip after round 5 11 8 11 9 11 10 11 11 12 8 Skip after round 6 12 9 Skip after round 6 12 10 Skip after round 6 12 11 Skip after round 6 13 12 13 13 14 12 Skip after round 7 14 13 Skip after round 7 15 12 15 13 15 14 2006 American Contract Bridge League Movements 97 16 12 Skip after round 8 16 13 Skip after round 8 16
173. p 5 4 8 2 Prepare Database for next month or year Bree ENTER for Yes Data Base files in DYACBLSCORYIDBASE should be backed up to a diskette before proceding Continue No Cancel Help 5 4 8 3 Database Maintenance 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 161 Q AY BLscore Data Base Maintenance Select function ESC to exit 1 Prepare Data Base for next month or year 2 Purge old Data Base records 3 Fix masterpoint fields 4 Remove unusable unlinked data base records 5 Remove unwanted Group Codes from all players 6 Repair damaged Data Base Reindex 7 Reinitialize Data Base 8 Update Data Base from Archives 9 Add Group Codes based on player number file 10 Add Group Codes based on game attendance 11 Edit ACBL membership fees WDBMAINT Version W7 41 05 23 2006 Copyright c 1991 2006 ACBL 5 5 Data Base Import Merge Copy selected data base records to another data base Use Import to import the ACBL Player information file into your data base The import and merge capabilities for ACBLscore allow you to create and update your data base from other sources The sources you may use are An ACBL Player Information File we Another ACBLscore Data Base es Comma delimited file we ACBLscore Data Base backup ea ACBL masterpoint file we QUE o Np The ACBL Player Information File allows you to import information ordered to your specifications from the ACBL which will add
174. p will be displayed After selecting the one you want enter the back up location generally either drive A or B The back up window will show you the back up status Then the following warning will be displayed The back up file AX LZH is not part of any report and should not be sent to Memphis When you press any key you will be back to the 8 item back up restore menu ACBLscore will delete the archive file after it is backed up till then it will stay in the hard disk 5 4 3 2 Purge old Club Game and connected attendance records Purging old game records and associated attendance records This option allows you to remove games and personal attendance records for all players that are older than a specific date Every game file record and attendance record consumes memory In order to keep the files on your computer down to a manageable level you will need to remove old records This command allows you to select the oldest date you will accept for records to be retained and will delete all game and attendance records before the specified date The first thing ACBLscore will do after you select this option is to suggest backing up the data base It will also ask the earliest date of records you wish to save all game and associated attendance records before that date will be deleted Then it warns you that all necessary ACBL reports should have been done and asks to confirm purging club game and connected attendance records date
175. part of the screen In our case 4 tables the explanation when you select table 2 to add appendix will be as follows e Original pair three becomes pair 9 and remains stationary at 2 N S e One new pair becomes pair 3 and starts at table 5 N S e One new pair becomes pair 10 and remains stationary at table 5 E W e Tables 2 and 5 relay boards Change the numbers of the pairs accordingly and note that tables 2 and 5 relay boards The procedure to add only one pair to the movement is very similar to the one described above The only difference is the explanation given by ACBLscore 3 10 2 Errors in Rover Movements In Rover Movements one of the most common problems is that the pair that is supposed to sit out forgets to do so and starts playing When the roving pair shows up it is too late for that board Again this error has to be reflected in ACBL score The procedure is very similar to that of Pair sits the wrong direction ss After using EDMOV 1 select Edit one cell from the 12 item window ACBLscore is going to ask for the table number the round number and whether it is going to be partial round adjustment or not If it is then it asks you the board number the N S and E W pair numbers If there are no more errors press ESC 2006 American Contract Bridge League 58 ACBLscore Help 3 10 3 3 10 4 Forgot to call the skip Let s say you have a 10 table game with Mitchell Movement There s
176. ps playing 32 boards Players 1 16 meet 17 32 in an irregular progression Boards are distributed 4 to a table in the normal manner and move down one table after every second round Computer set up for 16 rounds with 32 boards in play S0824 8 tables 8 rounds of 3 boards After each board players rotate clockwise around North Computer set up for 24 rounds of 1 board R0907 9 tables 7 rounds of 3 or 4 boards R0908 9 tables 8 rounds Irregular Mitchell Boards 25 27 3 board rounds stationary at table 9 All other boards circulate normally going from table 1 to table 8 S0908 9 tables 8 rounds No player rotation Boards 25 27 remain stationary on table 9 All other boards circulate normally going from table 1 to 8 S0909 9 tables 9 rounds of 3 boards No player rotation Use S0927 for player rotation 0921 9 tables 7 rounds of 3 boards Players rotate clockwise around North after each board Computer set up for 21 rounds of 1 board 0924 9 tables 8 rounds of 3 boards Players rotate clockwise around North after each board Boards 25 27 remain stationary on table 9 All other boards move down one table bypassing table 9 0927 9 tables 9 rounds of 3 boards Players rotate clockwise around North after each board Computer set up for 27 rounds of 1 board 40 48 players 1009 10 tables 9 rounds No player rotation 2006 American Contract Bridge League 94 ACBLscore Help
177. quencing from the Select EDMOVE Option menu Note that 4 boards which are in order are scheduled for every round The first thing you need to do is to enter board 25 in place of board 4 Note that board 4 is now at table 2 Then enter board 26 in place of board 8 27 to 12 28 to 16 and so on up to board 31 to 28 by following the same procedure Check whether the schedule of ACBLscore reflects the distribution of boards to tables in your game Press F9 key to exit 3 10 5 Pair sits the wrong direction Let s say you have a 6 table Howell movement with 9 rounds and 3 boards per round Pair 10 is supposed to switch from N S to E W at round three however they forget to do so After one board they realize that they are sitting the wrong direction and they play the next two boards sitting E W To reflect this change in the movement on ACBLscore use EDMOV Select Display or change movement from the Select EDMOVE Option window and edit one cell from the 12 item menu ACBLscore will ask you the table and the round number Then it is going to ask you whether this will be a partial round adjustment Press Y for yes since the pairs played only one board of the round sitting the wrong direction Next ACBLscore asks you the N S pair number and gives the opponents of the correct N S players as the default with the assumption that the pairs sat the wrong direction at the same table in our case the default is pair 10 Then it asks the E W
178. question is the masterpoint colors Then the summary information window will be displayed Check the information on the window and enter the sanction number Press F9 key to go to the ACBLscore Scoring System screen 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 71 3 18 2 3 18 3 You should DBADD a these special games as usual Fees and masterpoints will be included with the club s regular monthly report GNT and NAP events Setting up a NAP GNT game is very similar to setting up a club masterpoint game Everything up to the selection of the event rating is the same However you should select number 5 North American pairs or teams from the event rating list Next you will be asked to choose between North American Pairs or Grand National Teams and the level Club or Unit Select Unit level for Unit Final or Intermediate If itis a club qualifying game ACBLscore will ask you to choose the club and the session Next ACBLscore will ask the total number of played sessions and whether there is a masterpoint restriction for the game If there is you will be asked to choose the upper limit by the next window The last question is the masterpoint colors Then the summary information window will be displayed Check the information on the window and enter the sanction number Press F9 key to go to the ACBLscore Scoring System screen See Multi session oamese to set up a 2 session NAP unit final
179. r The steps you need to follow will be the same as above after this point Manually Scored Games To record pair or individual or board a match games that were scored manually do the following 1 Set up the game and select Manually scored Mitchell or Manually scored One winner Enter the average of the scores when prompted Enter the names 1 2 Use ADJ 41 or ENTER s F2 key to enter the players final matchpoint scores 4 DBADD a the game as usual Masterpoint Factors Upper limit Factor 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 53 3 9 5 0 2500 10 0 3102 20 0 3704 50 0 4500 100 0 5102 200 0 5704 300 0 6056 500 0 6498 750 0 7065 1000 0 7466 1250 0 7778 1500 0 8033 2000 0 8434 3000 0 9000 5000 0 9714 6136 1 0000 Masterpoint Ratings ACBLscore will need to know the event rating for your game see below for event ratings and explanations Most club games are option 1 Club Masterpoint games ACBLscore will then ask under which club franchise this game is being held and the club session number s and you will be asked to select from among the sanctioned games listed for the club indicated Then you ll be asked to indicate restrictions either by masterpoint holding or by invitation Club Masterpoint normal club game 2 Club Championship ALL This displays a second pick list 1 Regular Club Championship enhanced masterpoints clubs may run one per
180. r pre printed guide cards Note that the Howell movements in ACBLscore do not necessarily match any published movements although they should match any ACBL Official movements More Movement topics Howell Movements e Rover Movements le 2006 American Contract Bridge League 88 ACBLscore Help 4 1 4 2 Se ect type of Movement ESC to Quit A m Howell N S Rover Mitchell E W Rover Mitchell N S Rover Bye stand Mitchell E W Rover Bye stand Mitchell Bye stand Mitchell Standard Mitchell External Pair External Individual External Board A Match Cancel Help About Phantom Pairs Using the Phantom Pair option allows you to run a half a table In a 9 1 2 table game you would set up for ten tables The boards and pairs move as they would in a ten table game and when a pair encounters the phantom pair they sit out If the phantom pair is N S the game is fairly easy to manage since the director can advise pairs they are about to sit out If the phantom is E W the director must make sure that a slow N S pair doesn t bypass the phantom pair and play the boards for their sitout against the wrong pair There can be complications if the phantom is not at the highest table or is E W and you use travelers as the pair at the table just below the sitout may enter their scores on the wrong line Howell Movements The Howell guide card utility contains most of the Official ACBL movemen
181. r scores and enter the total tables that each player played in the series and a final score that will be used for overall rank purposes DBADD this game as usual This game will NOT be included in the financial report but the bonus masterpoints will be included in the month end masterpoint report and diskette Special Games Select help for one of the following special game topics GNT NAP 71 and the Canadian counterparts ACBL and District wide o Instant matchpoints De Sectional tournament at clubs 72 Unit games DN Junior fund games z ACBL and District wide games Setting up an ACBL District wide game is very similar to setting up a club masterpoint game Everything up to the selection of the event rating is the same However you should select number 8 ACBL World District Wide Instant Seniors etc from the event rating list You will then select the appropriate event from the second pick list After selecting the club enter the session number Then select the club session The next window asks you to choose from one of the three event restrictions 0 restrictions open 1 restriction Women Seniors Mixed etc 8096 2 restrictions Seniors and Women Mixed etc 70 Next ACBLscore will ask the total number of played sessions and whether there is a masterpoint restriction for the game If there is you will be asked to choose a lower and an upperlimit by the next two windows The last
182. r select players by the General Selection Parameters 4 Before producing the report ACBLscore will ask if you wish to title the report if you don t it ll be called Phone List and what date to use The final report can be sent to the screen to the printer or to a Text file without headings which will allow you to lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Data Base 131 5 3 10 5 3 11 process the file in another program See Generic Report Selectable Restrictions 4 screen Player Information File Player Information File You can create a Player Information File to update another computer s ACBLscore data base with your records At the other computer Import ve from a Player Information File e Note that only players with a valid ACBL number are included and no attendance or club information is included See Generic Report Selectable Restrictions wad screen Qualifiers from NAOP GNT etc List of qualifiers from NAOP GNT etc Use this report type to produce a list of the players that qualified from your North American Pairs Grand National teams or the Canadian equivalent events These games must have been DBADDed with the option of adding group codes for the qualifiers You will first be asked to specify the qualifying group codes s Qualifying group codes are composed of a digit representing the year of qualification followed by 2 letters that specify the event and flight
183. r with the next lower number Choose the third option Propagate stationary pairs from a model starting round from the Select Player Edit Option window which ACBLscore just returned to Stationary refers to phantom players 14 15 and 16 you created The model starting round and the ending round number are the same as before The low stationary player number is 14 and the high one is 16 You will be back to the Select player edit option window Pressing ESC will take you to the 12 item menu You are done with arranging player seating for all rounds however you still need to correct the boards Select Edit boards from the menu The following options will be displayed in the Select board edit option window 1 Add a constant to board numbers 2 Propagate board movement from a model starting round 3 Propagate stationary boards from a model starting round The model starting round number and ending number are again the same as before 1 and 13 Low board number in cycle is 1 high board number in cycle is 26 and board increment is 2 Entering this information will adjust the boards but you still need to assign 0 s as the board number to table 4 In order to do that select Board Edit option from the 12 item menu and Propagate stationary boards from a model starting round from the window Again the model starting round number and ending number are the same as before Enter low and high stationary table numbers as 4 Press ESC to quit Se
184. rd after creation use Edit for Edit 114 club 2006 American Contract Bridge League 114 ACBLscore Help 5 2 2 5 2 3 5 2 4 game See Game Not Held a screen Adding attendance records Adding Attendance Records Add for attendance records permits you to enter information about a player s masterpoints won and percentage achieved in a manually entered game Attendance Records Attendance Records The displayed attendance record contains the player s name player number the color masterpoints awarded for the game the type of masterpoint game whether the award was for the session or for overall placing the masterpoints won and percentage achieved The final line will disclose whether the points won are for inclusion in the monthly club masterpoint report To move among the attendance records use the Up or Down arrow keys or Prev for Previous or Next To edit an attendance record use Edit To add an attendance record od Add To exit to the Main Game Record press F4 key See Attendance Records o screen Club game records Editing Club Games Use the Up or Down arrow keys or Prev for Previous or Next to move among club game records The record displayed summarizes information about a game that has been scored and DBADDed on this machine If errors have been made in setting up the game the simplest way to correct an error in tables playing type of game stratification etc is
185. rd number to be entered ACBLscore will display all unentered boards toward the bottom of the screen You may repost boards already entered If you re entering from pickups round by round all scores are posted in order by table number starting with table 1 If you re posting more than one section ACBL score will change sections for you automatically after you ve finished posting a round of tickets 2006 American Contract Bridge League 34 ACBLscore Help 3 2 18 1 except on the last round To enter tickets without changing automatically use ROUND After entering the next to last round by pick up slips ACBLscore will suggest you print a LEADERS lo sheet For instructions on entering scores see Posting entry a To exit press the ESCape key or type 0 for board number Posting entry The following applies when entering scores The last zero is always dropped 400 is enterd as 40 110 is entered as 11 All scores are entered from the N S point of view For N S plus scores press Enter key after the score Plus 110 is typed 11 press Enter key For E W plus score press the or key after the score Minus 800 is typed 80 or 80 To back up press the B key To move forward press the F key Slash on the keypad can be used as the backspace key For artificial adjusted scores Average both ways type A For Average Plus N S Average Minus E W type A For
186. re Data Base for next month Printer Configuration 167 Province 180 Purge old attendance records 154 Purge old Club Game and connected attendance records 155 Purge old database records 154 Purge old Handicap percentage records 156 Purge old player records based on last active date 157 Purge players with no attendance records 173 153 157 Q Qualifiers from NAOP 131 GNT etc report 131 R Reinitialize Database 157 Remove unwanted group codes 158 Repair damaged Data Base Reindex 158 Report Selection Parameters 144 Report Sorting Keys 152 Reset masterpoint fields 158 Restore 176 Restore Data Base 178 Restore Game Files 178 Restoring data base archives 178 Result 184 Results 184 Rover Movements 96 Rover Movements About 97 BECH Scrambled Mitchell 66 Selection Parameters ACBL member status Selection Parameters ACBL rank codes 146 Selection Parameters Active date 146 Selection Parameters Category A or Category B 147 145 Selection Parameters Country code 147 Selection Parameters District number 148 Selection Parameters Email address 148 Selection Parameters Gender 148 Selection Parameters Group code 148 Selection Parameters Mail code 149 Selection Parameters Masterpoints 149 Selection Parameters Paid thru date 150 Selection Parameters Player number file 150 Selection Parameters Postal zip code 150 Selection Parameters Starting date
187. records for new players and update information for players already in your data base To combine another data base select option 2 or 4 This process will add players found in the second data base not found in your data base 2006 American Contract Bridge League 162 ACBLscore Help 5 5 1 5 5 2 5 5 3 To import from a foreign data base that can create a comma delimited file select option 3 ACBL masterpoint file To update masterpoints in your ACBLscore club data base Go to http www acbl org acblscore updateClubDatabase php in your internet browser Download and import instructions are included on the web page and are included below 1 Download the appropriate district file from the list onto a diskette A in your browser s save dialog box There is one file for each district numbered DO1MP LZH to D25MP LZH If players from more than one district are in your data base download as many district files as necessary 2 Take the diskette to your ACBLscore computer and in ACBLscore select Data Base then Import Merge then 5 Update masterpoint holdings from ACBL masterpoint file Total masterpoints for players found by using the player number in your data base that are in the district file will be updated Only players in your data base that have an ACBL player number will be updated No new players will be added or deleted and no other information will be altered ACBL Player Inform
188. regular monthly masterpoint report diskette A Unit wide championship is the exception because the overalls are ranked across all playing sites Report all game results press reports and or game file diskettes for a Unit wide championship to the coordinator who will rank overall and forward the results and fees to ACBL 2006 American Contract Bridge League 74 ACBLscore Help 3 19 3 20 3 20 1 Stratified Events A stratified pair game is one that produces more than one set of winners All pairs are ranked in the top group stratum the pairs in the top stratum stratum A are eliminated in determining the ranks in Stratum B both A and B pairs are eliminated in determining the ranks in Stratum C In other words players competing for masterpoints within their own stratum can also rank in higher strata groups but not vice versa For further information about stratified games the pamphlet STRATIFYING YOUR CLUB GAME is available from the ACBL Club Membership Department When you first set up a game ACBLscore will ask you to specify how many strata should be created Invoking STRAT will allow you to assign strata to the pairs in the section You may enter strata sequentially by pressing the F6 key or use the arrow keys and select the pairs to designate by pressing Enter key Pressing the F9 key will save the information Team Game How to set up If you want to run a swiss a knockou
189. rictions you need to use Press F9 key when you are finished 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 135 LS lect report restrictions pace select report restrictions if any F9 done 1 Restrict by GROUP codes 2 Restrict by category codes 3 Restrict by category B codes 4 Restrict by ACBL rank codes 5 Restrict by masterpoints 6 Restrict by ACBL member status 7 Restrict by UNIT number 8 Restrict by Postal Zip code 9 Restrict by State Province 10 Restrict by GENDER 11 Restrict by Local active date 12 Restrict by ACBL active date 13 Restrict by Starting date 14 Restrict by Country code 15 Restrict by District number 16 Restrict by Paid Thru date 17 Restrict by a Player number file 18 Restrict by last ACBL update date 19 Restrict by email address 20 Restrict by ACBL fee code 21 Restrict by MAIL code OK Cancel Related Links PIF By Category A Code se PIF By Category B Code ise PIF By ACBL Rank Codes 7 PIF By Masterpoints hat PIF By ACBL Member Status wei PIF By Unit Number PIF By Zip Code h3 PIF By Gender PIF By Last Active Local Date PIF By ACBL Active Date rss 2006 American Contract Bridge League 136 ACBLscore Help PIF By Country Code las PIF By District Number hss PIF By Paid Thru Date lua PIF By ACBL Fee Code i PIF By Mail Code ki 5 3 12 4 1 PIF By ACBL Active Date
190. rive path or disk drive letter if the diskette is not empty try another diskette or answer Y to format diskette Select tournament to use for the Memphis file name The name will be the sanction preceded by the letter D and followed by the extension LZH If reports are missing you will not be able to continue See Generating Memphis Masterpoint Reporthsl The data base and necessary report files REP HTM DAT will be backed up Tag ALL game files for this tournament from list of game files Press F9 key to accept The default name will be the sanction with no prefix followed by the extension LZH Note At a very large regional or NABC more than 1 diskette will be required In such a case the archive extensions will be named LZ1 LZ2 etc This procedure will indicate if more than 1 diskette is required Create an E mail and attach both LZH files Send the E mail to tournament report mail1 acbl org Select 3 Restore Data Base or 4 Restore Game Files if it becomes necessary to reexamine the data from a tournament after the files have been archived and deleted a Enter the drive and path where the archive LZH files are located 2006 American Contract Bridge League ACBLscore Help 188 10 7 10 8 1 e 3 4 10 9 b Select the desired file with the arrow keys follow instructions DBADDing events 1 Select the proper game file use DBADD DBADD all events in the file by choo
191. rom this source data can be updated without adding new records new records can be added without updating existing records or both From this source there is no choice of categories of information All categories of available information in the source will be added or updated When preparing another data base for merging it may be appropriate to change the default path that ACBLscore uses to locate the tournament data base Do this by selecting SetUp from the main ACBLscore menu then selecting Set Path For changes in the default path to take effect you must press Enter key through all three path choices and then press any key to continue Pressing ESC key before returning through all three path choices will cancel any changes that have been attempted 10 13 Merging non members 1 Select DATA BASE 2 Select REPORTS 3 Choose 6 Non member report with results to screen or printer as desired 2006 American Contract Bridge League Tournament Result Reporting 191 4 Scan the list for players who are obviously members that were not looked up during typing Look up numbers in PLAYER LOOKUP See Data Base Update Find s If a number is found see procedure for Adding player number to existing non member player record ed Locate instances of more than one record for the same non member Select TOURNAMENT PLAYER DATA BASE Press F for FIND enter player s last name select one of the records listed Pr
192. rs to a player Group codes permit classification of players according to categories of your choice Within each group code you may assign a group number for categorizing within a classification Group codes or numbers may be up to three characters in length and may be any keyboard symbol not previously assigned including letters numbers and punctuation marks You may assign as many group codes as you wish to a player but only the first twelve arranged alphabetically will be displayed To edit undisplayed group codes use the Down or Up arrow key To illustrate let s say you run Supervised Play You can mark the players who participate with an SP group code If you run these games on Monday Thursday and Saturday you can specify which sessions each player plays in by means of the group number After entering the SP group code you may enter M T S MT MS TS or MTS to describe precisely which sessions this player attends To save changes and additions press F3 key To exit group editing without saving press Escape and type Y Edit masterpoints Using F2 key to edit masterpoints F2 key allows you to edit various masterpoint fields for Recent Month to Date Year to Date and Total Points The Recent masterpoints category may be used to track masterpoints won over a short duration such as a week ACBLscore will prompt you for new values for Total masterpoints Year to Date Month to Date and Recent If you just want to update
193. s The second session of the event may be assigned to different weekly club sessions and or club numbers Do not start setting up the second session on ACBLscore until the game starts If there are pairs who played in the first session that did not show up this session go to the first session and indicate them as single session pairs as described above When you are setting up the second session make sure that you have entered the same event code as that of the first session and the right session number 2 for the second session ACBLscore will ask you the number of tables to base the overall awards set it to the number of tables in the first session You do not have to enter the player names Use XOV 49 cross over from a previous session to transfer the player names their carry overs and masterpoints from the previous session This command will save you time since you do not have to enter the names of the players that are playing in both sessions It will also prevent mistakes by transferring the scores automatically After you use XOV ACBLscore will ask you lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Game 63 3 13 the location of the previous session game files If it is in the hard disk press F2 key to see the list of the previous game files If not type the appropriate drive and press Enter Find the previous session highlight it then press the enter key If you have made errors in the process or if th
194. s EVENT F6 35 Game Commands EXP 35 Game Commands FIND 36 Game Commands FOUL 36 Game Commands FREQ 37 Game Commands GNEXT Ctrl Right 37 Game Commands GPREV Ctrl Left 37 Game Commands HAND 37 Game Commands IMP Ctrl 39 Game Commands KILL 39 Game Commands LAST Ctrl L 39 Game Commands LATE 39 Game Commands LEAD F4 40 Game Commands LIST F8 40 Game Commands LRECA 40 Game Commands MEMO 40 Game Commands MPED 41 Game Commands NAMES F3 41 Game Commands NEW CN 41 Game Commands NOTE 42 Game Commands OALL 42 Game Commands ORECA 42 Game Commands OUT 42 Game Commands PCON 42 Game Commands PDAT 43 Game Commands PEVEN 43 Game Commands PMPS 43 Game Commands PRESS 43 Game Commands PXOV 43 Game Commands QUIT Alt X 43 Game Commands RECAP F5 44 Game Commands ROUND 44 Game Commands RPRES 44 Game Commands SCORE 44 Game Commands SET F9 44 Game Commands SHOW Ctrl S 46 Game Commands SHXOV 47 Game Commands SPRES 47 Game Commands STRAT 47 Game Commands SUMM 47 Game Commands TOURN 47 Game Commands TRANS 48 Game Commands TS 48 Game Commands UNBAC 48 Game Commands UNDB Ctrl U 48 Game Commands VIEW 48 Game Commands WHEN 49 Game Commands WORLD 48 Game Commands XOV 49 Game Options 166 Game Setup Steps 49 H Help 171 Help how to use 172 Home Style How to setup 50 Howell Mo
195. s Discussed in Swiss team pairing algorithm ein F6 key Print sitouts for all teams with 5 or 6 members F7 key Print the current victory point scale if using VPs F8 key Edit the current victory point scale if using VPs This allows you to create a custom VP scale When F9 key is pressed to save the scale you will be asked if the VP scale should be saved as an external file The external VP scale can be selected in a future team event by selecting Other for the VP scale You will then choose from a pick list of all external VP scales 2006 American Contract Bridge League 78 ACBLscore Help 3 20 5 2 Pairing option while posting results This number indicates how ACBLscore will pair teams while results are posted 0 Do not pair teams while posting results Switch to the Pairing Screen to manually pair them 1 Pair out of range teams only teams with scores higher or lower than any possible result from any unposted team This setting will result in perfect pairings for all teams 2 Pair out of range teams and use matching tolerance settings to pair teams that are within range and below the top teams See Minimum top teams for perfect pairing next and Swiss team pairing algorithm s Minimum top teams for perfect pairing These settings only apply if the pairing option is 2 pair while posting using matching tolerance settings The top teams will only be paired if no other teams are
196. s Teams that lose two matches in win loss Swiss teams have little chance of placing overall teams that lose two matches in VP Swisses still have a chance to win the event The team that has the best win loss record in win loss Swisses is the winner the team with the best win loss record in VP Swiss teams is not necessarily the winner it is not even guaranteed a place in the overall standings This is possible in a situation where the team with the best win loss record wins its matches by small margins and thereby earns fewer victory points than some other teams that win their matches by wide margins and earn lots of victory points Using victory points first round pairings still are random However pairings for subsequent rounds are based on the victory point holdings of the teams not on their win loss record The team with the net plus in IMPs still is the winner of the masterpoints for each match However overall standings are based on total victory points not wins and losses general options F10 key general options F2 key Hold all 3 teams that are currently in the round robin These teams will no longer be paired until the hold status is removed This does not apply to any teams in a short round robin F3 key Remove results pairings Allows you to remove all pairings and posted results from specified rounds F4 key Remove the hold status for all teams These teams will then be eligible for pairing F5 key Tolerance setting
197. s about the time covered by the Recent category For example if you wish to run a masterpoint race from Sunday through Saturday reset the Recent counter before the earliest Sunday game After DBADDing the final Saturday game you can produce an appropriate report By resetting the counter again you ll be ready for another weekly contest Before proceeding the utility will suggest back up of the data base The back up is essential for if you ve reset the counters and need the information you ll have to assemble the information from other sources such as a result book Resetting Month to Date automatically resets Recent masterpoints Resetting Year to Date automatically resets Month to Date and Recent masterpoints Resetting Total automatically resets Year to Date Month to Date and Recent masterpoints 5 4 8 Screens 5 4 8 1 Purge old Data Base records Select purge optioi ESC to exit 1 Purge old Club Game and connected attendance records 2 Purge old attendance records 3 Purge old Handicap percentage records 4 Purge old player records based on last active date 5 Purge Players with no attendance records Cancel After any of the above options are selected you will see the next warning 2006 American Contract Bridge League 160 ACBLscore Help Press ENTER for Yes The Data Base files in DYACBLSCORYDBASE should be backed up to a diskette before proceding Continue No Cancel Hel
198. s as usual Fees and masterpoints will be included with the club s regular monthly report Sectional tournament at clubs Setting up a STaC Sectional tournament at clubs is similar to setting up a club masterpoint game Everything up to the selection of the event rating is the same However you should select number 9 Sectional Tournament at Clubs from the event rating list After selecting the club enter the session number Then select the club session The next window asks you to choose from one of the three event restrictions 0 restrictions open 1 restriction Women Seniors Mixed etc 80 and 2 restrictions Seniors and Women Mixed etc 70 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 73 3 18 6 Next ACBLscore will ask the total number of played sessions and whether there is a masterpoint restriction for the game If there is you will be asked to choose a lower and an upper limit in the next two windows The last question is the masterpoint colors One of the questions is Is this a multi site event Answer this question carefully following the instructions from the Director in charge DIC of this STaC Then the summary information window will be displayed Check the information on the window and enter the sanction number and event code carefully as supplied by the DIC Press F9 key to go to the ACBLscore Scoring System screen After you have completed the game and all scores have been
199. s correct If any of this information is not correct UNDBadd the game and reset masterpoints and carefully answer ALL the questions with the correct information F9 key then 10 Set masterpoint rating and DBADD again Examine the game file name on the top line of the screen The last part of the name must be the date the game was held For example an evening game held on June 14 2005 will be named 050614 E If the name is not correct UNDBadd the game use NEW press F2 key highlight the game and press R to rename the game and give it the correct name After renaming it select the renamed game and DBADD Use the TOURN command and verify that the club number and date is correct 4 If the game still does not appear in the financial report determine if the game was DBADDed from the standpoint of the data base Select Data Base then Club Setup If you have more than one club bring the correct club number into view Press F3 key to examine club game records and press F to find You should see a list of all club games that have been DBADDed You can go to the end of the list by pressing the End key If the game appears in the list but not on the finacial report select the game from the list and examine all the information about the game Correct any mistakes by going into the game file itself see step 3 above 5 If the game still does not appear in the finacial report reindex the data base Data Base then Maintenance then 6 Repair d
200. s for viruses before reading data from them 2 You may import data directly from the club disks However you will probably find it efficient to copy the club files to your hard drive This will allow you to edit data as needed sanction numbers event codes etc while preserving the club disk as a reserve copy 3 The STAC tournament must be set up in the data base before club game files can be created or imported During event setup each event must be given rating 9 STAC The data base will create and update a list of participating clubs as the data is processed 4 Use Tournament Mode when creating game files for processing club results The game files will recognize data from STAC club files created in club mode Set up a separate game file for each STAC session 5 Successful data importation requires that each club file include the STAC sanction the six digit club ID and the event code It is assumed that the sanction number and event codes have been distributed to and used by participating clubs If any of this data is missing the club file should be edited appropriately 6 IMPort data for the current session s game from each club disk After the first section has been imported a partially completed Tournament screen will appear enter the date city and Tournament name If the club has used 9999 as a default event code the file will be imported as a separate event If this occurs use CFIG1 Change event configuration
201. s mee 126 Gomma delimited file ree P N 127 Compl te List atit icai cst a ici acca Gages occa etie tie fee en ess seen 127 CustomHepoltt E 128 Mailing Labels 129 Maste rpomnt LIST cocci ok 129 Monthly Club Masterpoint Reports for Non members of the ACBL sees 130 Phone List c E AE sein 130 Player Information File 131 Qualifiers from NAOP GNT etc cisecsscssssersestescesssseennecsscesanecsoetseanssncrsuntectescstseseavseertanesteeisocessrarsntsaceaesteesneentereas 131 Sreens ee Di ie UTI LI CI Le pM M EI ELLE 132 en ir ie mires tel EC UMEN 132 Monthly Club Masterpoint Reports for Non members of the ACHL 133 Mead EET 134 Generic Report Selectable Restrictions sr 134 PIF By ACBL ActiVeDale enitn re rene ere rte er emma estere opea Erben sensn eer haeret 136 gii lesMI Xe e died Nes Se 136 PIF By ACBL Member Status 137 PIF By AGBE Rank COd6S eia estet enti i ri tania Dee ER ERE ERR iniaa 137 PIF By Gategory A COG zirai issen EES EE bee eme te 138 PIF By GategoryB Code m MH 138 PIF By EtUdugdcu PIF By District ui ADEM P
202. sing Y Choosing N will DBADD all sections of only the current event on the screen DBADD multi session events in chronological order In some instances the program will allow DBADDing out of chronological order however this is not recommend Once an event has been DBADDed the Sanction the event code the section letter and the masterpoint rating in the game file may not be changed unless the event is first UNDBadded 2 Watch for Error messages during DBADDing Events not set up or improperly set up will not be DBADDed 3 Fixthe errors as necessary the correction may need to be made in the game file or in the data base For handling score corrections after DBADDing see Processing corrections he1 Entering events in data base Select DATA BASE Select TOURNAMENT SETUP If more than one tournament exists select proper tournament Select Add to add new event enter data as prompted Use arrow keys to back up to fix any errors Note that the number of sessions for a continuous pairs is the actual number of sessions played do not count the overall as a session Shortcuts in event setup Bring a similar event e g previous bracket of a multi bracket KO to the screen by using FIND Press C for copy then edit the event code Use the arrow keys to scroll through all the selections editing as necessary Whenever the editing is complete F9 key will accept the edited record without scrolling through the rest of the data Ed
203. special scoring problems fouled boards curtailed movement herald upcoming events or communicate holiday wishes You may create section specific comments a message for all sections within an event and make a memo for all sections within a game file Each of these messages may be up to two lines long The section specific message will appear between the Press 4 and the Recap The event and file wide messages will appear at the bottom of the recap 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 41 3 2 35 3 2 36 3 2 37 MPED MPED allows you to edit masterpoint awards that will be DBADDed a It is mostly used at tournaments This can be used to modify the awards as well if the director sees a reason to do so NAMES F3 key NAMES allows you to enter the players by name or by player number ACBLscore will ask whether you wish to use your Data Base Answer Y if you have a data base complete information will be provided If you re running a Handicap 1 game you will be asked to indicate percentage handicap to use and which games to use See past performances for more details A screen for N S and E W names will appear To enter names or player numbers in pair number sequence press the F6 key To edit specific pairs use the arrow keys and press Enter key for the desired pair You will now see a window across the bottom To enter a name type the first few letters of the last name and press Enter key
204. t or a round robin team event select option 2 from the Select Type of Game window which appears after you use ADD sc ACBLscore will ask a letter for the event Then choose a method of scoring from the list ACBLscore supports Win Loss Victory Points and Knockout Next enter the number of boards per round number of matches maximum possible wins for club games this should be equal to the number of matches and number of tables as asked up to 800 tables is acceptable by the program Then indicate the starting team number and whether the game is stratified After choosing the event rating and club enter the club session number Next a small window that asks to select the club session is displayed This window has information about the sessions i e club name session number type and name of the game Choose the appropriate session if there is more than one and press Enter ACBLscore will require the total number of played sessions usually 1 and if it is club masterpoint game the club rating Subsequently ACBLscore will ask whether a novice 0 20 game is being held in a different section concurrent with this game Press F9 key if the summary information that is displayed on the window is correct See Team score entry s for posting the scores 2 table team games 2 table team games are allowed For one long match select 2 Team 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 75 3 20 2 3 20 3
205. ta base reports and game files Copy compressed files on to one disk for ACBL and to another for DIC s personal archive 10 4 Choice pairs This information is for tournament events where pairs play in exactly 2 out of the 3 sessions 2006 American Contract Bridge League 186 ACBLscore Help If there is any possibility that someone will play all 3 sessions no side game specify 4 sessions in Tournament setup and game files If there is no possibility that anyone will play all 3 sessions specify 3 sessions in Tournament setup and the game files Sessions to base overall awards 2 Normal x overs s can be used in all cases 1st gt 2nd session 1st gt 3rd session and 2nd gt 3rd session 2nd gt 4th sesion 3rd gt 4th session Section letter assignments Section letters for the 3rd session should be different from the 2nd session and different from any other section in use at the tournament 1st and 2nd sessions can use the same letters It is important that all 3 sessions are based on the same top on a board Factor if necessary 1st session Assume sections A and B for the 1st and 2nd sessions and sections C and D for the 3rd session The pairs that are playing in the 2nd session are XOVed to A and B Those that play in the 3rd session are sent to section C and D 99 any pairs that are treating this session as a side game 2nd session Assume sections A and B XOV ss the pairs from t
206. ternoon 7 Wed Morning 14 Fri Afternoon 21 Sun Evening 0 Not a club game 22 Cruise Session 22 can only be assigned to cruise clubs club type C See Club Setup ij Screen Edit club information Editing Club Information You may edit information in the record about the club number name and information about the manager To edit session information eg use F2 key See Club Setup i Screen Editing Attendance Records Editing Attendance Records You are not permitted to change the name on the attendance record or the player 2006 American Contract Bridge League 116 ACBLscore Help 5 2 8 5 2 9 5 2 9 1 number You may change the pigmentation of the points won whether the award is for session or overall placing the number of points the percentage scored and whether the points are for inclusion in the monthly report See Attendance Records o screen Game not held To indicate a game not held on the monthly financial report do the following 1 From the main ACBLscore menu select Data Base then Club Setup If you have more than one club number use the up or down arrow keys to select the proper club then press F3 key Edit View club game records 2 Press F5 key Create a record for a sanctioned game which was not held Answer the three questions that appear in the small window Comment should indicate the reason for no game i e Sectional tournament etc Press Q or click th
207. the options available in the results screen e F2 key Sitouts for this team F4 key Worksheet for this team F8 key Options for this team F10 key General options for the event Specify options Options for the highlighted team F2 key Hold this team This team will not be paired until the hold status is removed F4 key Remove the hold status from this team and allow this team to be eligible for pairing 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 81 3 20 5 5 Stationary table for this team Specify a table here to mark a team as stationary Starting round for this team Enter a round number other than 1 if this team is beginning after the first round This is the way to accommodate a team that only wants to play the second session of a 2 session event Ending round for this team Enter a round number less than the last round to indicate a team that will be resigning or for a team that only plays the first session of a 2 session event IMP difference Allows you to specify an artificially assigned IMP result for the team 999 indicates an unposted result and will reset the match score and wins to zero If BAM Swiss this is the boards won Match score Allows you to specify an artificially assigned result in VPs or wins for win loss This is only applicable if IMP difference is not 999 Match wins Allows you to specify the wins in the range 0 1 00 This is only applicable if IMP difference
208. the program work as it reads records and the finished product can be sent to the screen printer or a Text file for further use See Generic Report Selectable Restrictions ad Screen 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 129 5 3 6 5 3 7 Mailing Labels Making Mailing Labels Your printer has the capacity to produce mailing labels which could save you hours of hard work and cramped hands spent addressing envelopes You can produce labels for all players in your data base or select which labels to produce by using Selection Parameters ACBLscore has the abilitiy to print these labels in surname order by Postal Zip Code so you can bundle them for the Post Office by Unit Number or by Group Code alphabetically so that labels produced for a target audience can be segregated After choosing records for inclusion ACBLscore will show how many records have been processed as it goes along When finished you can tell ACBLscore where to send the product If it s sent to the printer you can print a test label to make sure the label is aligned properly in the printer You may print more test labels until satisfied See Generic Report Selectable Restrictions i4 screen Masterpoint List Masterpoint Lists ACBLscore will produce a report that will display masterpoints and name alphabetically or by points won for Grand Total Year to Date Month to Date or Recent points won You can produce a list
209. the sanction number that is asked at the summary window which is displayed as the last window of the set up process When you are done press F9 key and you will be back to the ACBLscore Scoring System window You must now change the scoring method to instant matchpoint by pressing F9 key and selecting number 9 change scoring method from the menu and number 5 instant matchpoint from the next menu ACBLscore will ask you the location of the instant matchpoints file After you enter your response it gives you the name of the file and asks whether that is the correct file Note that the name of the event changes to that of the file if the file has a different name You should DBADD a these special games as usual Fees and masterpoints will be included with the club s regular monthly report Junior fund games Setting up a Junior fund game is very similar to setting up a club masterpoint game Everything up to the selection of the event rating is the same However you should select 3 Fund Charity International Junior etc from the event rating list You will then select 7 Junior Fund from the second pick list After selecting the club enter the session number Next ACBLscore will ask whether there is a masterpoint restriction for the game If there is you will be asked to choose a lower and an upperlimit by the next two windows Then the summary information window will be displayed You should DBADD a these special game
210. ther teams entered in the event To qualify for overall awards each team must play against at least 75 of the other teams in the event If the event runs for more than two sessions the club uses the appropriate multiplier If all teams entered in the contest play simultaneously each such period as in a pair game is a session Any scoring method for Swiss teams may be used to score and determine overall winners in a round robin team event ACBL recommends the use of IMPs with or without victory points The method the club uses for determining the overall winner must be the same as the one which it uses to decide the winner of each individual match The club awards club masterpoints if applicable to the winners of each match Swiss teams The Swiss team game is probably the most popular team event The Swiss movement may be used in single session regular masterpoint games or in one or two session club championships The term Swiss refers to a type of movement in which contestants with similar records play against each other as the event progresses Swiss team game may be scored in one of two ways win loss or victory points Pairings for the first round should be random irrespective of the scoring method used In subsequent rounds pairing should be done in such a way that teams with similar records play each other always taking into consideration that teams may not compete against teams they have played in an earlier round Below are th
211. title it ll be called Masterpoint Race by default and will send the report to the screen printer or a Text file to be used in other programs See Masterpoints List 134 screen Monthly Club Masterpoint Reports for Non members of the ACBL Monthly Club Masterpoint Reports for Non members of the ACBL You can produce a summary of all players who won masterpoints in your games who had no player number The report for the month for each club can be sent to the printer screen or a Text file Your players who are non members of the ACBL are a critical element of your club ACBL members are people who have tried duplicate bridge and love it The non members may be testing the waters Unless you keep track of their masterpoints their reward for good play may fall between the cracks By using this utility you can give non ACBL members another reason to like playing at your club MASTERPOINTS You may organize the report alphabetically or by masterpoints in case you wish to run a contest Give ACBLscore the month and club to be reported and watch the program scan records The finished product can be sent to the screen printer or a Text file for further processing in a different program See Monthly Club Masterpoint Reports for Non members of the ACBL w i screen Phone List Creating a Phone List This report will list players by name with phone numbers if any A category status wi and city You may include all player records o
212. to 02 times the number of tables in play for all games in which he or she participated This bonus cannot exceed 1 5 masterpoints for an open game or 1 2 masterpoints for an invitational game Second place earns 75 of the award for first and third place earns 75 of the second place award Clubs may use their own methodology for determining winners Some examples are a The number of masterpoints earned at the series games b The best percentage score for all series games c Award 4 3 2 1 for 1st through 4th place scores for each game and total such awards for the series to determine the winning individuals The club manager may specify a minimum number of game sessions played to be eligible Clubs may also wish to consider a proviso that eligibility requires participation with a minimum of two or more different partners Series Winners recording MPs ACBLscore does not have any methodology for determining the winners of the series games The decision is the club manager s 2006 American Contract Bridge League 70 ACBLscore Help 3 18 3 18 1 To record bonus masterpoints earned by the series winners Add a new section to the game file that contains the final session of your series game Select Create a new event and Series winners as the game type Enter only the names of the top 4 overall ranking players In case of a tie for 4th ACBLscore has room for up to 6 players Then press F2 key ente
213. to continue Next you will be looking at the 8 options of maintenance If you want to back up the file press ESC Press Enter to the question which asks whether you want to back up the archive files from diskette A new window that asks you to select archive to back up will be displayed After selecting the one you want enter the back up location generally either drive A or B The back up window will show you the back up status Then the following warning will be displayed 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 157 The back up file A LZH is not part of any report and should not be sent to Memphis When you press any key you will be back to the 8 item back up restore menu ACBLscore will delete the archive file after it is backed up till then it will stay in the hard disk 5 4 3 4 Purge old player records based on last active date Purging old player records based on last active date This option allows you to remove players from your data base who have not played recently Last active date is a field in each player record that is updated whenever a game is DBADDed and is thus the latest date that player has played in a game You will be asked to specify the oldest last active date to keep All player records with an older last active date will be deleted from the data base 5 4 3 5 Purge players with no attendance records Purging players with no attendance records This option a
214. to edit specific crossovers within each section 2006 American Contract Bridge League Game 33 To indicate a single session pair type 99 for next session assignment After finishing each section ACBLscore will inform you of duplicate table assignments To see the next session assignments for all sections of an event use SHXOV 1 See XOV syntax s for examples 3 2 16 1 Examples of EDXOV or EDPX assignments C 10 N Sends this pair to section C table 10 North South C10N Same a above The dots are not needed BBB5E Sends the pair to section BBB table 5 East West Note that B3 as a section specifier is invalid BBB must be used GG78 Sends the team to section GG table 78 No direction 99 This pair does not continue in the event H14W Individual assignment to section H table 14 West 43 13 N Dots are needed with numeric sections 3 2 17 ELIG ELIG will scan all players in all sections and compare the masterpoint holding as found in the lookup data base in ACBLSCOR PLAYER Any players with too many masterpoints for the stratum or event will be reported Useful for the DIC of a STaC to scan game files imported from the various clubs 3 2 18 ENTER F2 key Select Team score entry es for help on posting team game scores or ADJ 24 for help on posting a manually scored game ENTER F2 key allows you to post results If your selected posting method is from travelers ACBLscore will ask you which boa
215. to go back to the game file corresponding to the record and make the changes in the game file ReDBADDing the game will replace the previous attendance records including masterpoints and percentages with the correct information Edit should be used only to change information that will not affect the player s masterpoints or to 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 115 5 2 5 5 2 7 change information for a manually scored game To enter the game file for a manually scored game use Add for add a game E file To enter a game record for a sanctioned session that wasn t held press F5 key This must be done to ensure a complete monthly club financial report You may examine the Attendance Records 4 associated with the game selected by pressing F4 key Remember the attendance records found will depend on your choice whether to update all players or only those players who won masterpoints To Add attendance records i4 for players press F4 key and type A To exit without saving press the ESCape key and then type Y to abandon changes See Club Game Records zi screen Club Weekly Session Numbers 1 Mon Morning 8 Wed Afternoon 15 Fri Evening 2 Mon Afternoon 9 Wed Evening 16 Sat Morning 3 Mon Evening 10 2 Thu Morning 17 Sat Afternoon 4 Tue Morning 11 Thu Afternoon 18 Sat Evening 5 Tue Afternoon 12 Thu Evening 19 Sun Morning 6 Tue Evening 13 Fri Morning 20 Sun Af
216. to the office about unusual things Can also be used by a club in a STAC tournament to report something unusual in the game to the DIC To delete a NOTE blank out each line with the space bar OALL OALL will rank the event to depth specified Ranking will be determined by total score including session score any carryover and score adjustments The Event ze command functions similarly and will produce a report for display on the screen or to be printed ORECA ORECA produces a detailed report of the pairs their total score and ranking for session and overall as well as a board by board breakdown of the actual score achieved by each pair and their matchpoints for their result The recap is printed at 6 lines per inch and will usually take 3 pages If you wish to print at 8 lines per inch 2 pages use RECAP 4 ACBLscore will ask whether you want the Press A recap without a press has the information the players want but looks less official You may print either the N S or E W recap and if using combined scoring you may produce all combined sections or specific sections OUT This can be used to specify players sitting out in multi session Board A Match ss team games PCON PCON allows you to print receipts of masterpoints won for each section you run You may print the receipts for ACBL members only for nonmembers or for everyone The produced coupon lists the player s name the date points were won the name of t
217. ts as well as many others that we developed Three different types of Howell movements are considered Complete ss Three Ouarter eg and Combined ss The notation TT RR refers to a specific movement where TT stands for the number of tables and is the number or rounds For example 5 9 refers to a 5 table Howell movement played 9 rounds 2006 American Contract Bridge League Movements 89 4 2 1 Combined Combined Howells are actually 2 Howell sections combined into one Only one set of boards is used These Howell movements are useful in two session play thru events The first session is a standard Mitchell and the second session is a combined Howell E W add a number equal to the number of tables to their first session pair number to obtain their pair number for the second session N S retain the same number For an even number of tables the first session could be a relay bye stand Mitchell An odd number of tables requires the Mitchell to be curtailed by one round Combined movements with an odd number of tables play all the pairs in their own group and the pair that they missed in the Mitchell The odd numbered Combined movement has no stationary pair and the even numbered movement has 2 or more stationary pairs The following combined Howell movements are available 7 7 May be curtailed 8 7 Board relay 9 9 2 bye stands board relay 10 9 Board relay 11 9 Board relay 11 11 May be curtailed
218. ts that can be generated through ACBLscore are flexible You can restrict almost any report by one or more of the following categories a group code has b Category Ale c Category Bu d ACBL rank codes us e masterpoints 9 f ACBL member status hs g unit number l1 h i j k l m n O postal zip code r state province wei gender ha local active date s ACBL active date hel starting date hier country code h7 district number a 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 145 p paid thru date e q Player number file eg r email address ke s mail code has In order to select any of the options from the window that lists them highlight one and press the Space Bar answer the question asked which depends on the restriction you have chosen repeat this for every restriction you want You may also choose not to restrict the report When you are done press F9 key Please note that the effectiveness of the restrictions largely reflects how thoroughly and accurately you maintain the data base Related Links PIF By Category A Code se PIF By Category B Code ise PIF By ACBL Rank Codes i1 PIF By Masterpoints lan PIF By ACBL Member Status wei PIF By Unit Number h43 PIF By Zip Code h43 PIF By Gender ho PIF By Last Active Local Date ao PIF By ACBL Active Date hsl PIF By Country Code hss PIF By District Number se PIF By Paid Thru Date lua
219. u can create a file of player numbers and use this file in conjunction with creating a Player Information File s1 At the other computer after importing the Player Information File a select Data Base Maintenance s and Add Group Codes based on Player Number file s This is a way of transfering group code information from one ACBLscore data base to another You can also use a player number file in conjunction with the FIND command in a game file If you want to keep track of the games in which a group of players selected by you played this option can be of great help FIND can be used either to find a player or to verify player eligibility Select number 10 from the report list to create a file of player numbers When you select the players based on the general selection parameters 4 ACBLscore reads records from the data base and informs you that it is doing so Then it asks the location where you want the created file to be stored export file location and the name you want to assign to the file The default location is AA and the default name is PLNUM If you assign a file name that already exists in the location you will be asked whether to overwrite it See Generic Report Selectable Restrictions 4 screen Attendance reports Attendance reports If you want to check the attendance of players you can use this option The report can be restricted by group codes masterpoints etc You can also restrict it to cert
220. u may enter the NAMES al If you selected handicap based on Past performance s ACBLscore will the do the research to determine the handicaps Past performances and entering names If you ve enabled the HAND l zlicap option you ll be asked to set the handicap factor The higher the factor the bigger a handicap players will get Choosing 100 means that a pair who averages 45 will get 31 2 more matchpoints for a handicap than a lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Game 39 3 2 27 3 2 28 3 2 29 3 2 30 pair who averages 55 on a 156 average We recommend 80 otherwise a large handicap will become the dominant factor in who wins After you ve picked the percentages you ll be asked to tag which sessions can count This will allow you to exclude afternoon games from the calculation for an evening handicap game or not count percentages in a 0 100 game for determining the handicap in an open game Tag the appropriate games by using the arrow keys and pressing space bar to tag or untag Press F9 key to accept your choices Next ACBLscore will ask how many percentages to use from most recent to ancient you may choose from 1 to 999 Don t use too large a number since the older the game the less the percentage will reflect the form or ability of the player It will also ask for a minimum number to use for calculation If it encounters a player without enough percentages it will ask for your he
221. ue 28 ACBLscore Help 3 2 7 3 2 8 3 2 9 3 2 9 1 3 2 9 2 3 2 9 3 13 Event date I4 Event name I5 Partners name s and city IG Tournament city CAPT This allows you to send the names of the captains in team games to screen or a printer CCO CCO allows you to compute carry over scores from qualifying sessions See EDPX for details CFIGx CFIG has the following options CFIG1 change event configuration zs CFIG2 Combined scoring zl CFIG3 Team multiple event results zs CFIG1 change event configuration CFIG1 allows you to reassign existing sections to different events CFIG2 Combined scoring CFIG2 allows you to score across more than one section and allows you to rank across the combined sections Combining scoring allows for higher tops which some believe is more valid and certainly has the virtue of making bigger scores Ranking across more sections makes for fewer section tops so if that s an issue for your players rank within each section ACBLscore will ask which event should have combined scoring and will then allow you to tag the sections to be combined by using the arrow keys and pressing the space bar After you ve selected the appropriate sections press the F9 key and the program will ask whether you wish to rank across the combined sections CFIG3 Team multiple event results This allows you to post Swiss results without changing events Tag the Swiss events t
222. ur ACBLscore data base Next you will be asked to select the fields to update in ACBLscore if a record in the comma delimited file matches by player number a record in your data base Note that if a match is not found or the target field is blank it will be updated regardless of what you tag here You will now get to specify the fields and their order in the comma delimited file The first record is displayed at the bottom of the screen to help you in this procedure Last name and first name must be included After you press F9 key to accept the field definitions you will be asked if the first import record should be ignored The first record which was displayed on the bottom of the screen may contain the field 2006 American Contract Bridge League 164 ACBLscore Help names and if so answer Y es to this question 2006 American Contract Bridge League 166 ACBLscore Help 6 6 1 Setup Fa get Path 5 set Printer Ei set screen Font EI Tournament Club Mode Iz Game options gt The following options are available Set Paths Set Game Data base path Set Printer Configure printer Set Screen Fonts Set the font for the screen Tournament Club Mode weg Select tournament club mode and Non ACBL Mode _ DC Mode ei c Mode m Non ACBL Mode Game Options wer Allow or Deny edits to data base when entering names in a game
223. vements 88 Howell Movements Combined 89 Howell Movements Complete 89 Howell Movements Three Quarter 90 IMP Scoring Methods 50 Individual How to setup 51 Individual Movements 91 Individual Movements 20 28 players 91 Individual Movements 32 36 players 92 Individual Movements 40 48 players 93 Individual Movements 52 64 players 94 Individual Movements 8 17 players 95 Installation 11 Installing 11 Installing from a CD or Pen Drive 14 Look at error messages 173 Mailing Labels 129 Main Menu 9 2006 American Contract Bridge League 198 ACBLscore Help Making a Monthly Club Report for ACBL 17 Manually Scored Games 52 Masterpoint Charts 178 Masterpoint Factors 52 Masterpoint List 129 Masterpoint Ratings 53 Menu 9 Mexican State Codes 181 Monthly Club Masterpoint Reports for Non members ofthe ACBL 130 Movement Errors 56 Movement Errors Adding a table or pair to a Howell 56 Movement Errors Errors in Rover Movements 57 Movement Errors Forgot to call the skip 58 Movement Errors Increasing number of boards per round 58 Movement Errors Pair sits the wrong direction 59 Movements 87 Movements About Phantom Pairs 88 Movements Creating yourown 59 Multi Session Games 61 N New 171 New features P Pair Game Howto setup 63 Phone List 130 Player 99 Player Information File export 131 Players 15 99 Posting Methods 66 Prepa
224. was not held Next Prey Find Top Last Edit E Copy Delete Quit Note That some of the Menu buttons are grayed out This means those buttons are not available at this time On this screen they are not available since there are no records in this table and the only options you have are to press A to add a record press F3 key to Return to Main Club Definition Screen press F4 key to Linked Attendance Records press F4 key to Create a Record for a Game which was not held press F1 key for help or to Quit Club Setup At the top of this screen the title tells you what table you are currently accessing In this case it is the Clubdef table The status bar immediately below it shows that you are in Club Mode where the table you are using is located the tables name and how many records are in it 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 123 CAACBLscore Club D AACBLSCORYCLUBDEF DAT Contains 0 Records Club Club Name Manager Player mm Address City State Zip Email Unit District D Type of Club jo Open Club Session jo Type CR Time Stratified N Handicap N OICLPW Open Director Event Name Club Record Mode F2 Edit Add Sanctioned Club Sessions F1 Help F3 View E dit Club Game Records and Linked Attendance Records F4 Edit ACBL Club Sanction Fees Country Next Prev Find Top Last Edit Add
225. will then be asked whether there will be a phantom pair if it is not a Rover Movement If you have half a table with a sitout elect this option and tell ACBLscore the direction and the number of phantom pair If some boards need to be factored ACBLscore gives a warning and asks for your confirmation to continue Posting method will be the next question There are five options that you can choose from 1 Pick ups Sequence by table number 2 Pick ups Sequence by N S pair number 3 Travelers Sequence by N S pair number 4 Travelers Sequence by round number 5 Travelers by N S pair then Pick ups by table number Most of the time you will choose one of the first three options However for instant matchpoint games choose option 4 where the score earned first round appears on the top line Option 5 allows you to pull the travelers for the last round or two and use pickup slips Next ACBLscore will ask whether the event is stratified If it is you will be presented three options 1 stratum 2 strata and 3 strata After choosing from one of the event ratings ss which will appear after you answer the stratification question you will indicate the club running the game and the weekly session number s Then a small window that asks to select game type is displayed This window has information about the session i e club name session number type and name of the game Choose the appropriate game type and press Enter If y
226. with the predetermined datum The datum is entered by using the PDAT a command ADJUSTED BOARDS AVE 0 IMPs AVE 3 IMPs FOULED BOARDS A separate datum is calculated for each group using the method described in IMPs using computed datum 3 6 Individual How to set up For an individual game select 3 individual game from the Select Type of Game window After choosing a letter and a color for the section select the movement ACBLscore supports three types of individual game movements Mitchell One Winner and Barometer If you select One Winner a list of movements appear on the screen for you to pick from However if your choice is Mitchell ACBLscore asks the number of tables For the number of tables that are not prime prime numbers are the numbers that are 2006 American Contract Bridge League 52 ACBLscore Help 3 7 3 8 divisible by only itself and one E g 3 5 7 11 13 17 the same list of movements as that of One Winner s is displayed For prime number of tables movement is relatively simple North is stationary South goes up one table East up two West down two and boards down one Select an appropriate movement from the list if you are running a One Winner game or a Mitchell with nonprime number of tables you may want to print the movement by using EDMOV i after setting up the game After your selection ACBLscore gives you the name and the type of the movement
227. with this game Press F9 key if the summary information that is displayed on the window is correct See Team score entry 3 for posting the scores IMP Scoring Methods Summarized below are the 4 IMP scoring methods supported by ACBLscore IMPs using computed datum A datum is calculated by averaging all the results on a board after removing some high and low results The datum is rounded to the nearest 10 points If the last digit lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Game 51 of the computed datum is 5 it is rounded to the nearest even score For example 425 is rounded to 420 and 435 is rounded to 440 Each result is IMPed with the datum The default number of scores removed is 5 high and 5 low scores ADJUSTED BOARDS AVE 0 IMPs AVE 3 IMPs FOULED BOARDS A separate datum is calculated for each group Total IMPs Each result is IMPed with every other result on a board The sum of the IMP comparisons is the score ADJUSTED BOARDS AVE 0 IMPs AVE 3 IMPs x number of results 1 FOULED BOARDS Each group is IMPed separately then factored by number of results 1 size of group 1 Average IMPs Each result is IMPed with every other result on a board The sum of the IMP comparisons is then divided by the number of comparisons ADJUSTED BOARDS AVE 0 IMPs AVE 3 IMPs FOULED BOARDS Each group is IMPed separately IMPs using a predetermined datum Each result is IMPed
228. y DBADD 2006 American Contract Bridge League 154 ACBLscore Help 5 4 3 5 4 3 1 new games All reports for the ACBL should be generated before using this option By preparing the data base for next month you ensure that all reports produced from your data base accurately reflect what happened when at your club Before preparing the data base ACBLscore will suggest that the data base be backed up The back up will allow you to restore the data base should you need some critical information that was deleted in the preparation Note you will still be able to produce all ACBL reports as long as club game records and attendance records have not been deleted ACBLscore will show its progress as the utility works See Prepare Data base for next month or year so Screen Purge old database records Purge old data base records This option displays a second menu Purge old Club Game and connected attendance records hss Purge old attendance records hsa Purge old Handicap percentage records eg Purge old player records based on last active date e Purge players with no attendance records hs em MET See Purge old Data Base records ss Screen Purge old attendance records Purging Old Attendance Records This option permits you to delete old attendance records If your club is very busy or the amount of memory on your hard drive is small this option will allow you to remove old data records to free up
229. y is helpful for organizing unit or district events or tracking attendance patterns Available for complete lists mailing labels or custom reports 4 Group Code and Surname You can organize players by your own classification scheme You might create a group code for all your Wednesday evening or Sunday afternoon players Say the group codes were WE and SU for those sessions the sort key would arrange the records alphabetically by group code first In other words the SU players would be listed first in alphabetical order Available for complete lists mailing labels and custom reports 5 Group Code and Group Number Here the selected records would be organized alphabetically by group code and alphabetically by group number within each group code Available for complete lists and custom reports 6 Player Number This key allows you take a player number and find the player associated with it Available for complete lists or custom reports 7 Masterpoints This key organizes the selected players by masterpoints from most to least It is helpful for showing leading masterpoint winners over a specific period Available only for masterpoint lists and monthly reports for members and non members 8 Attendance You can organize players by their attendance This option is available only for attendance reports and for custom reports that include attendance 2006 American Contract Bridge League Data Base 153 5 4 D
230. y pairs that played a 3rd session as a side game will not be included 1 XOV from the 2nd session 2 XOV from the 3rd session Disable session ranks and masterpoints and set the field sizes see 3rd session above lt 2006 gt American Contract Bridge League Tournament Result Reporting 187 10 5 Continuous Pairs processing gi pa Set up event in data base choosing event type V and entering the actual number of sessions played Check gamefiles before DBADDing the section information must include the line Special Game Continuous Pairs DBADD sessions in order Merge non members as necessary See Merging non members s Setup new gamefile in which to process Continuous Pairs overall results a Immediately after ADDing a new section select 4 Continuous Pairs Final b Complete game file setup as usual c Use CPAIR in game file to compile results d Print overall leaders e DBADD the Continuous Pairs Final gamefile See also Processing corrections hs 10 6 Creating Data Files for Memphis and for Archive This procedure allows back up directly to a floppy disk or to a subdirectory of the hard drive that you designate Since you will be making two copies one for the ACBL office and one for the DIC s archive the better method is to create the files on the hard drive 1 2 3 Select TOURNAMENT UTILITIES Select Back up RESTORE Select 6 to Create Memphis Report Diskette choose hard d
231. y scored Mitchell 7 Manually scored One winner Mitchell is the movement used where the N S and E W are compared separately Typically E W pairs move up a table and boards are passed to the next lower table Howell movements are one winner movements Most of the pairs play N S sometimes and E W at other times Web movements allow for more than one set of boards to be played and ensures that all participants play all the boards An external movement allows you to use movements of specific design created by you or that resides in the computer In a barometer all tables play the same boards at the same time If you pick this option you will then get to choose one of the first 4 options listed above Select manually scored if the game was scored by hand You will be asked for the average of the game All you do is enter the names and final matchpoint scores You will then be asked for the number of tables Note that ACBLscore supports sections of up to 40 tables and up to 80 boards in play ACBLscore will ask whether you re using a Standard Mitchell or a Rover Mitchell 1 A rover movement allows you to add a late pair without ed additional set of boards Contrast this half table option with the Phantom Pair ss option 2006 American Contract Bridge League 24 ACBLscore Help 3 2 2 You will then be asked where board 1 starts In most club games board 1 starts at table 1 Boards may be moved wh

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