HOWELL MOVEMENT DETAILS ...

Comments rising from the competition held on 18 April 2023 which was a Howell movement ...

As the Results table below shows, there was a select group playing on the night of April 18!! A Howell movement was the only possible option, but even that was stretching it somewhat! For each Round, there were only three tables playing with one of the tables being a Sit Out. As usual with Howell, there was the usual confusion regarding who goes where and 'Aren't we still North-South?' and so on!

In Howell, everyone only gets a Pair Number and being just NS (or EW) for the night doesn't happen! There were just 6 pairs (including a SIT OUT pair). So there were 5 boards for each Round, and there were 5 Rounds (the way it works is, if 'T' is the number of Tables, then the number of rounds is 2 x T – 1).

With only two active tables on each Traveler (the 3rd table had a SIT OUT), the number of points available to each pair was only 0 or 2 – each pair was either 'top' or 'bottom'!). It's probably getting complicated by now for the reader, so spare a thought for the player (and the scorer!). Fortunately, with each result being just a 0 or 2 makes things easy when getting results from the Travelers, so the final picture is as shown below.

PRACTICE HANDS ...

Try Geoff's Challenges ... click here.

Or,

for Lucille's Lessons ... click here.

A practice hand is shown below for those who may need to do a few warm-up exercises before playing in earnest!