Welcome to the information pages about the Women's Bridge Festival presented by the World Bridge Federation and BBO, created by Anna Maria Torlontano, chairman of the WBF Women’s Committee, with the technical organisation by Vincenzo Delle Cave BBO Italy.
Players from all the WBF Zones are invited to participate in Pairs and Individual Championships.
There will be 4 daily tournaments: 2 pairs tournaments alternating with 2 individual tournaments. It is possible to participate in the pairs tournements with different partners, in other words it is not necessary to play all the pairs tournaments with same partner. The Festival will last one week, from 7th – 13th April 2008 and will include a total of 28 tournaments at the following times:
11:00 - 16:00 - 21:40 - 01:00 hours
This schedule is based on Italian local-time and so times will vary in other time-zones. For a list of the times of the tournaments in different places, click here.
- BBO SOFTWARE & REGISTRATION
To participate having the BBO’s software installed on your pc is mandatory.
If you do not already have BBO's software please click here and follow the instructions for downloading and installing it. There is no charge for the software. You will get a unique BBO NICK, that you need to register for the Festival.
- REGISTRATION FESTIVAL
Participation in these tournaments is restricted to those women players who enrol in the Festival on line by filling out the special enrolment form not later than one day before the beginning date of the Festival.
- ENTRY FEE
The entry fee is fixed at $1 (the standard fee for all the normal BBO pay tournaments).
To know how to pay, click here.
In addition to the rankings of each tournament, cumulated rankings will be prepared as follows:
- Pairs Championship cumulated ranking (in any case it will be an individual ranking because of the fact that it is possible to play pairs tournaments with different partners!)
- Individual Championship cumulated ranking
- Overall cumulated ranking (combined ranking between Pairs & Individual)
10 boards will be played in each tournament.To see the rankings of all the tournaments, the score sheets of the hands and the "bridge movie" (the bidding/play history for a deal) of each hand click on the BBO Website.
No kibitzers will be allowed during the tournaments.
BBO Master Points will be awarded based on the size of the field.
Certificates will be awarded to the winners on a session basis each day and to the overall winners. In addition to the certificates (which will be sent by email to the winners and will also be available on the page "Certificates" of this website), the overall winners may submit their photographs by email, and these will be published on the Women's pages on the WBF Website. It is also hoped to publish information on the players own Federation’s website.
