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Copyright © 1996-
2013 Bridge World
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Each month, the Master Solvers' Club contest presents eight bridge problems on bidding and play. The contest is free to enter. After the contest deadline, the problems are scored by the director, and are discussed by an expert panel in The Bridge World magazine.
In answering, a Solver should assume that North is an expert player, but that North-South are not a regular partnership. To ensure a uniform framework, the North-South players are assumed to be using Bridge World Standard (BWS), the consensus system derived from the preferred methods of experts and solvers. You can see the current version at the Bridge World Standard page.
Submit your answers at the Master Solvers' Club section of www.bridgeworld.com.
Answers for the current month's contest and scores for the previous month must be submitted by the tenth of the month before the problem month (e.g., by December tenth for the January solutions).
Master Solvers' Club contests are open to bridge players worldwide. An entrant must be an individual entering in their own behalf. There is a limit of one entry per individual. Employees of The Bridge World and panelists of the Master Solvers' club are not eligible. The highest scoring solver in each month is awarded a book prize. The highest-scoring solver for the year wins the choice of being guest panelist in the MSC for one year or entering Challenge the Champs with a chosen partner; the second-highest-scoring Solver is offered the prize not selected by the winner.
For each month's contest, the top 50 or so solvers are listed in the Honor Roll, which appears in the issue of the fourth following month. Monthly scores also apply to the yearly contest, open to any solver who has submitted 11 or 12 sets of answers for a calendar year's problems. For instructions, see Submit MSC Yearly Score. The top 100 or so Solvers are listed in the yearly Honor Roll, which usually appears in the following year's April issue.
The Club's directorship rotates each month among David Berkowitz, Jeff Rubens, Eric O. Kokish, Kit Woolsey, Bart Bramley, and Danny Kleinman; from time to time, a guest director participates. The director assigns scores to answers on each problem, giving a highest score of 100 and lower scores generally in multiples of 10. The director does the scoring according to a personal view of the merits of different possibilities but is guided by the expert panel's votes and comments. However, the director must award 100 to an action receiving a majority panel vote, at least 10 to any action receiving at least one panel vote, and some score (even if zero) to every legal action.
Problems suggested by readers are frequently used and always appreciated. (To submit a problem, or for tips on which problems are most likely to be accepted, see Submitting Problem Suggestions.)
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