Tournaments and Boards

• Completeness of tournaments:
  • sometimes only the final was recorded
  • sometimes dull boards were left out
  • sometimes rounds were missing
    
    
• Completeness of boards:
  • sometimes crucial information was missing like boardnumber these boards were added
  • if the score and the result or the names of the players were missing boards were not added
    
    
• Individual boards:
  • I tried to make it possible that every board can be used individually (meaning an attempt was made to record the event, date, playernames and site for every deal instead of #)
    
    
• Errors in boards:
  • Boards had to have a valid deal to be added
  • Inconsistancies in boards were ignored. Like play and lead, or contract and bidding, or score and vulnerability; these boards were added anyway!!!
    
    

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Resources

The pbn format for the boards was collected from:

• The Vugraph project by Nikos Sarantakos. Contributers:
  • Denis O' Kane
  • Gerben Dirksen
  • David Thompson
• And from Richard Pavlicek's website
• Bridge Base Online from Fred Gitelman
• The PBN Archive Contributers:
  • Francesco Barcio
• Gib archive Mathew Ginsberg

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Using the PBN

At www.himbuv.com there are several free utilities available for working/creating/converting between the following formats:

• pbn
• pdf
• xml
• html
• deal
• numeric
• numeric2
• deep finesse
• rbn

Checkout http://www.himbuv.com/diagrams.html

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About Copyright

Data collected from bridge matches (deals, auctions, play sequences → the PBN without the commentary) is considered to be in the public domain and not subject to copyright.
The files are not my property (or anyone's for that matter) and may be used or distributed as desired.
The public-domain status applies only to plain data.
Whenever commentary, analyses, prepared scoring tables, or any other form of expression is involved, that part becomes copyright to the author.