The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-27
BRIDGE
By VIM. E. MCKINNEY

Secretary American Bridge League
 In re-play duplicate bridge the tables should be marked with the four compass positions-North, East, South or West. Partners should be selected and should take their posi- tions at tho table. One pair must sit East and West and one pair North and South.'
 The one in charge shall provide duplicate trays which are contain CTS with four pockets that hold 13 have an arrow or similar marking device which always points North. If duplicate trays are not available. envelopes should be provided so that at the end of the hand each player can place his hand in an envelope and mark on the outside the deal number and his position. During the evening from 10 to 12 hands may be played and re-played. Let us say that we are going to play 10 hands and replay them, giv- ing us a total of 20 deals for the evening. During the first round, or the original play of the hands. the players retain their original posi- tions. A score pad is provided and the net result of each deal is scored by the North player and by the East player, e. g., if on board No. l North and South at auction made four spades, but their opponents a SCOT of plus l 31 for his side for deal No. l, while the East player would show deal No. 1 as a minus 131 for his side. This same pro- cedure of scoring is done through | out the 10 hands
 At the end of the 10 hands. the North and South players change places with the East and West pairs. If you have been using da- plicate boards, the 10 duplicate boards should now be placed on the | table or floor and mixed up so that ] a pair cannot tell just which board they ar selecting. The arrow must again point North. The four play CTS take their respective hands from the pockets of the container and the hands are bid and played in the usual manner.
 As soon as the play is completed. the board is turned over and the number determined: e. g.. the first board you play on the re-play may score pad for the first round and find that on board No. 5 you, sitting North and South, were defeated 300 points. On the re-play you are cit- ting East and West and make four spades with 40 honors. You find l that your score is plus 201, but you lost 300 points on the first round Therefore you lost that board by 99 points.
 There are two ways of scoring re-play bridge. One is each board a match. In other words, with this system, there are 10 matches being played. You may be able to win 5 tie and lose 2, therefore you would be matches up on your opponents The other way to score is to figure the net results of the point score; e. g., you may win board No. by 100 points, lose board No. 2 by 5C points and so on. The side having the largest net plus result for the play and re-play would be declared the winner. If all four players pass a hand. each side scores a zero.
 If you can be assured of getting the same four people together fol several weeks, the best way to do fl to play 20 boards the first night using no re-play. Then on the sec lond night you meet, in a week ol 1.-two, replay the 20 hands that yot played the previous evening. Thii will eliminate a lot of the memory You will find that after playing thi' lcontest' a short time, that you vii lsoon becom able to remember wha
 was in all of the first hands tha lyou played.
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