It is a requirement at all ABF events to have a fully completed ABF Convention Card for each of your opponents at the table.

Convention Card Editors and EBL Standard Card Click her e to download the WBF guide to completing a Convention Card EBL Convention Cards may be prepared using any of the following programs, but the EBL strongly recommends the use of the Word or Excel. You've reached the Bridge Winners Convention Card Editor, where you can create an official ACBL convention card. Our convention card editor alows you to save your convention cards in your account and share them with your partners. There are also several convention card templates that you can use to. BRIDGE CONVENTION CARD EDITOR (CCE) Frequently Asked QuestionsVersion 1.1.29May 23, 2016History 'Convention Card Editor' (CCE) is Freeware that lets you fill-in ACBL Convention cards, print them, and save them. .UPDATE.There is an UPDATE to this video, please watch it here: tutorial about creating, editing and setting convention. The Editor includes other built-in capabilities that make filling out a card easy while also cross checking for accuracy. In particular, fields that are intended to contain bids, such as the limit of Negative Doubles, use drop down lists with appropriate (legimate) values.

How to fill in your ABF Convention Card

Go to theABF Convention Card PDF page and download the ABF Convention Card PDF Form and Usage Guide.

Alternatively:

• • • Print a blank 2021 ABF STANDARD Convention Card and fill it in by hand
    • Print a blank 2015 ABF SIMPLE Convention Card and fill it in by hand.

Rex Livingston will answer any queries relating to the ABF Convention Card. If you have a question click here to send him an email.

How to complete an ABF System Card

ABF System Classification

Systems must be classified as either Green Blue, Red or Yellow.

Green – Natural
Blue – Strong Club systems
Red – Artificial systems
Yellow – Highly unusual systems (HUM)

If using a brown sticker convention, you must also show that on your card.

To correctly colour code your system card, please refer to the ABF System Regulations located on the ABF Rules and Regulations page

WBF System Cards

The WBF Convention Card must be used at all WBF Championship events.

Convention Cards

Overview

According to the rules of bridge, your opponents are entitled to know about any bidding and defensive carding agreements that you and your partner make. Convention Cards are used, both on Bridge Base Online (BBO) and in 'real life' duplicate bridge clubs and tournaments, as the primary mechanism for disclosing your partnership agreements to the opponents.

Some of our tournaments, notably our ACBL tournaments, absolutely require that you play either the Basic SAYC convention card posted for you, or post your own card. You cannot play ACBL tournaments with a profile. You have to play the posted card. This is an ACBL rule for their sanctioned tournaments.

Editing and Creating A Card

Click My BBO on the top horizontal row of buttons, and select Convention Cards by clicking on that link in the drop down menu.

This pulls up a list of stock convention cards for you to use as they are, or you can modify them to suit your preferences, and then save them in your list of My Convention Cards.

To change a stock convention card, click Edit and once you have made your changes, put your cursor in the Title space and give it your own name, for example the name of the partner you are going to play the card with, or the name of a tournament where you will play the card.

Create a brand new card by clicking one of the buttons on the list of all the convention cards. For example, clicking New ACBL CC with bring up the standard ACBL convention card you are familiar with when playing in your favorite club or tournament. Complete the card just as you normally do, and then save it with a new name by putting your cursor in the Title space and overwrite with your own name.

To change a card in the list of My Convention Cards click the link to Delete, Show, or Edit.

Using a Convention Card

Click the NS CC or

Blank Convention Card

EW CC

Acbl Convention Card Blank

button on the horizontal list of links below the table for your partnership seating position, and that brings up the list of convention cards. Select your card and post it.

Duplicate Bridge Convention Card Editor

When you sit down to play with a partner in a Bridge Club on BBO or when you register to play in a tournament with a partner, BBO will see if your partnership has already established a Convention Card by looking at your list of My Convention Cards for your partner's username. If it has, then you will be notified and BBO will use the appropriate Convention Card for your partnership once play starts.
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