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• My view is that anyone sufficiently smart to play bridge at the expert level is probably sufficiently smart to do something more useful with their time, so ought not to be playing, except in retirement.
• That said, anyone would like to play like an expert should this be possible while still keeping bridge as a relaxation. I doubt this is possible, certainly in my own case.

• When not playing, I didn’t miss the game at all, but maybe this was mainly because acting as the Essex County Bridge Association (ECBA) Webmaster provided a psychological substitute.
• However, I didn’t miss it over the 18 months from July 2017 either, and I no longer did any Webmastering.

• See my Chess Status Report.

• I handed in my resignation for Hutton at the end of 2020.

• When in Beta testing, this was without NGS or MPs, but I think this has been resolved.
• Again, I have to ask myself why these are important.
• My answer is that without these – particularly NGS – it’s not a proper national game.

• There’s a slight discrepancy between my records and the EBU stats.
• When the EBU had 33,776, my calculations had 33,915, made up of 22,962 LPs, 1,175 BPs and 100.06 GPs.
• I’ve not been bothered to determine the reason for the discrepancy, nor repeated the comparison as now I’m playing regularly timing issues also play a part. However, I have written a reconciliation program, but haven’t sorted out the discrepancies yet.
• I think I had about 5,000 LPs from my student days, but never registered any, more’s the pity.
• My Gold Points have now “aged off”.

• I no longer intend to “aim” to climb the greasy pole, but simply to enjoy the game.

• As this project is substantially inactive, I don’t update the text quarterly as for the active projects, but only at the end of the academic year.
• YTD figures and tasks are somewhat redundant at the end of the first Quarter, but it saves remembering to update the report in future quarters.
• However, while the Quarterly figures appear against that plan and are “as at” the end of the last Quarter, the YTD figures and tasks are as at the date of production of the report.
• The YTD Activity-list is to make the end-year task easier, and to give a clearer idea of what – if anything – has been going on in the interim.

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