Current state of competitive on-line bridge playing.

[Douglas]

Currently intentional violations of competitive online bridge playing
laws cannot be prevented. They can only be after-the-fact policed.

Publicly, such efforts to date are at best haphazard and opaque. And I
suspect unsatisfactory to most experienced bridge players. I only read
American English, so my view is severely limited to that acculturation.

Until some innovative advance is made which makes those violations
preventable in some significant manner, the on-line bridge game cannot
seem to be satisfactory for regional, national, and internationally
recognized, and prized, competition.

My governing national body, the ACBL, would prefer face-to-face bridge
playing competition to return this fall. That would seem to solve this
particular problem fairly well.

I am very uncertain the pandemic will cooperate.