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Find everything you need to manage your club along with the ways and means of creating a bridge entertainment hub.
- My Club
- Virtual Clubs
- Special Events
- Live For Clubs
- ACBLscore
- Laws & Discipline
- Education & Resources
Post Your Information
Update Your Club Listing
Post Your Club Website
Club and Sanction Applications
- To renew your club game sanction, log into MYACBL and click on the club manager link.
- To sanction new club games, please contact Dana at dana.murray@acbl.org.
Getting Started
Running Your Games
VACB Tools
- Download Include List
- Multiple Transfers ID
- Online Player Memo
- Update ACBL #
- BBO Video Chat
Multiple Transfers ID
VACBs may need to transfer BB$ to player accounts. Free plays, refunds, discounts… BBO IDs are only able to transfer BB$ once per six months, according to BBO rules. If a VACB would like to have more flexibility, and be able to transfer at any time, please email VACB@acbl.org and request to have this ability enabled.
Online Player Memo
When ethical issues arise, direct the players to fill out this Player Memo. The details are sent from this form to the National Recorder at ACBL. (Directors can also use the form.)
https://fs3.formsite.com/acbl/g1rqeexvzd/index.html
Update ACBL #
Send players to this link, and ask them to login to it with their BBO name and their BBO password. (This is a direct link to the place on BBO to update the number in their profile.)
https://www.bridgebase.com/mp/orgpoints/update_acbl.php
ACBL Support
- Round Table meetings – we hold Club Manager meetings once per month at 7pm Eastern. All Club Managers, as well as Directors who have requested to attend, are welcome. The tentative dates for these meetings are listed on the same page that archives the past meetings. Go to acbl.org/club-corner/#virtual, and click on Zoom Meeting Repository beneath the My Club header. The perpetual link to these meetings is: https://acbl-org.zoom.us/j/88025542687?pwd=d1JCYTJycDBPR0lpdHdmNDRzYzJ1dz09. If you would like to receive invitations to the meetings, please email vacb@acbl.org to be included.
- Free Guest memberships for your player
- Appendix O – An appendix to the Conditions of Contest for online games.
- Alert Procedures – Recently updated
- Convention Charts
- Masterpoint Book – This document details the awards process for face-to-face games. At this time, the Virtual Club games are awarding 150% of the face-to-face Masterpoint® awards.
- ACBL Codification – Governance, Policies, and Bridge Operations as directed by the ACBL Board of Directors can be found here.
ACBL CODIFICATION
The Codified minutes contain the regulations of the ACBL Board of Directors organized by subject matter. For assistance email codification@acbl.org.
You can access individual sections of the codification using the links below, or download the complete Codification (Parts 1 and 2).
The ACBL Codification has been broken down into two parts. Part 1 covers Governance and Policy. Part 2 covers Bridge Operations. You can download invidual chapters below.
- Section A: Finance
- Section B: Employees and Consultants
- Section C: 401K & Canadian Registered Retirement Savings Plans
- 2-A: Check Signing, Authorization Procedures
- 2-A2: Privacy Policy
- 2-B: Executive Director Succession Plan
- 2-C: Form of Employment Agreement
- 4A-1: Duties, Responsibilities and Authority of ACBL President
- 4A-2: Board Welcome Packet
- 4A-3: Board of Directors’ Duties and Responsibilities
- 4A-4: Standing Rules for Meetings and Committees
- 4D-1: Audit Committee Charter
- 4D-2: Hall of Fame Operating Procedures
- Section A: Zone 2 NBOs
- Section B: WBF Representatives and NABF Board Members
- Section C: International Fund
- Section D: World Junior Championships
- Section B: Rankings, Masterpoints & Races
- Section C: Dues & Life Master Service Fees
- Section D: Goodwill, Ethics & Zero Tolerance
- Section E: Marketing
- Section F: Discipline and ACBL Code of Disciplinary Regulations
- Section G: Education
- Section H: Awards and Trophies
- Section I: Juniors
- Section J: ACBL Bridge Federations
- 1-B: Masterpoint Ranks
- 1-B2: Life Master Rank and Regulations
- 1-C: Lapsed Member Life Master Requirements
- 1-D: Active Ethics Pamphlet
- 1-E: Corporate Sponsorships
- 1-E2: Cooperative Advertising Program
- 1-G: Education Liaison and the Chain of Command
- 1-H: Trophies
- Section B: Club Charity and Fund Games
- Section C: Unit and District Charity Games
- Section D: Educational Foundation
- Section A: ACBL Sanctions for Club Masterpoint Games
- Section B: Types of Club Masterpoint Games
- Section C: General Club Game Regulations
- Section D: Club Championships and Special Events
- Section E: Conventions
- Section F: Discipline
- Section G: Cruises/Land Cruises
- 6-B: Convention Charts
- Section A: ACBL/Host Organization
- Section B: Sites
- Section C: Finances
- Section D: Events/Schedules
- Section E: Operations
- Section F: Rules and Regulations for NABC+ Events
- Section G: Appeals/Recorders
- Section A: Regional Tournament Scheduling and Sanctioning
- Section B: Finances
- Section C: Events/Schedules
- Section D: Operations
- Section A: Residency Requirements
- Section B: Grand National Teams
- Section C: North American Pairs
- Section D: ACBL-wide and Other Special Games
- Section E: Canadian Special Games
- Section A: Bidding, Bidding Boxes, Skip Bids and Alerts
- Section B: Fouled Boards
- Section C: Convention Cards and Charts
- Section D: Slow Play
- Section E: Scoring
- Section F: Victory Points
- Section G: Seeding Points
- Section A: General
- Section B: Masterpoints
- Section C: Appeals and Recorders
- Section D: Swiss Teams
- Section E: Knockouts
- Section F: Events
- Section G: Tournament Directors, Finance and Tournament Assistants
- 13-B: Masterpoint Computations
BBO Support
- BBO Tournament Archive – https://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tarchive.php?m=h&h=vacb123456 (change last six digits to club number desired)
- BBO My Hands – Searchable archive of games by player. Login with YOUR BBO ID and password, search any player’s games by date, view the hands.
- Robot Systems – System notes for the GIB robots on BBO. Explains both bidding and defense.
- BBO Points – Explanation of BBO points (to which ACBL Masterpoints won online will contribute!)
- BBO Tournament Archive – https://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tarchive.php?m=h&h=vacb123456 (change last six digits to club number desired)
- BBO My Hands – Searchable archive of games by player. Login with YOUR BBO ID and password, search any player’s games by date, view the hands.
- Robot Systems – System notes for the GIB robots on BBO. Explains both bidding and defense.
- BBO Points – Explanation of BBO points (to which ACBL Masterpoints won online will contribute!)
Creating Swiss Teams
How to set up Swiss Teams games for your VACB.
- Short version, for experienced VACBs
- Long version, for newer VACBs
- Teams and boards – a quick reference chart.
- Player version, describes differences in registration for Swiss vs. pair games. This will save you having to chase them down at game time if you distribute first!
Player List Management
Friends list: these are players that you add, and you are thereby authorizing them to your games. Add to your friends list by changing a player’s relationship from “neutral” to “follow.” (Note that these players, if not on your include list, are potentially visitors to your club.)
Include list: these are players who played in your physical club in 2019 (through early March 2020). Also on this list are players that are shared with your club via a pooling relationship. If you would like ACBL to add a player to the “include” list, email VACB@acbl.org to make the request.
Exclude list: these are players that you wish to prevent from registering for your games. Change their relationship from “neutral” to “ignore,” and ensure that your games are set up with “exclude players ignored by host” checked on the entries tab. If they attempt to register, they will get a message that they are “blacklisted,” and the system will prevent their registration.
You may download both your “include list” and your “exclude list” if you wish. Note that you may not change/append/upload/replace these lists. Any action besides download is prohibited. See the directions here.

- Register Your Club
- Special Games at Clubs Chart
- District NAP COCs/Qualifiers
- District GNT COCs/Qualifiers
Clubs may hold an ACBL-wide event during a non-sanctioned session upon unit approval. Unit approval is normally automatic, unless there is a Regional in the District or a Sectional within twenty-five miles. Also, the ACBL-wide event should not conflict with a neighboring club that does have a sanctioned session for the date and time specified, and is also hosting the event.
When a sectional (excluding STaCs) or higher rated event (regional or NABC) is being conducted within 25 miles of a club game’s playing site, the club is permitted to hold only its regularly scheduled club masterpoint games. This regulation does not apply to Limited/Restricted Sectionals.



More Information | Past Results | Sign Up
In order to participate you must sign up in advance and use the current version of ACBLscore. For more information you may email iccg@acbl.org.
Schedule coming soon
General Information
- You must score your game using ACBLscore 8.27 or higher to participate in these events.
- Set up your game as follows:
- Select “Club Championship (ALL)”
- then “Interclub Championship” from the next pick box
- Clubs must register at least seven days in advance of the game. Click here to sign-up.
- Clubs will receive the material via email 48 hours prior to the game. Arrangements must be made to either print the hands for duplication or have the director duplicate the hands for his or her game. Anyone involved in the hand record process is not allowed to play in the event.
- If you receive hand records from ACBL and decide not to participate in the event, please notify ACBL so that we are not expecting results from your club.
- The strat limits used for the overall masterpoint awards will be as follows, but you may run your game with your normal strats if you prefer. All strats are re-computed before generating overall results. A=1500+, B=500-1500 and C=0-500
- Invitational games will be scored and ranked as Club Championship events with one restriction (20% reduction). Limited masterpoint games will be scored and ranked alone unless a like masterpoint game is held at one or more other ICC game sites. In this case, these games will be scored together for overall rankings and masterpoint awards. Invitational and Limited games may be included in the Open event if they are opened to all players and advertised as such in advance.
- Score correction period for the games is 24 hours after the conclusion of the event.
- Fees for this event are your regular club fees plus $1 per player.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I report the results?
All results are to be emailed to Results. To be included in the overalls, morning and afternoon games must be reported by noon (Central Standard Time) the following day; evening games by 3:00 p.m. (Central Standard Time) the following day. Results not received by that time will not be included in the overall results. Also, if you sign up for the game but cancel it for any reason, please notify us so that we don’t expect results from your club.
Just send the game file (such as 030820.aca) as an attachment to the email.
Why are the posted percentages different than at the club?
Perhaps the most frequently asked question we receive: “I had a 65% game at my club but your list shows us at 62%. How come?” Remember, the scores are re-computed by us and are scored with a much bigger top so it is not unusual for the scores to change. Also, the scores tend to compress a bit with a large number of comparisons.
Perhaps an example will help you understand the principle. Suppose at your club the board is played nine times with an 8 top. You are the only pair (thanks to fantastic bridge judgment and a bidding misunderstanding) to bid and make a slam. You receive a top on the board.
Let us further suppose that it turns out that 50% of the field at other clubs also bid and made the slam. You will receive about 75% of the matchpoints on the board. Thus, your “top” has been reduced to a 6 (on an 8 top). This “field effect” tends to improve your zeros too.
Masterpoint Awards Chart
Club Masterpoint Games
- Open
- 200 or more / Invitational
- 0 - 200
- 0-50 and 0-100
- 0-20
- 0-10
- 0-5
- Introductory and Pupil Game Session Awards
Club Swiss Teams
Club and Unit Championship Overall Awards
Awards Chart for Championship-rated games
Special Fund Game
Club Masterpoint Game - Knockout Teams
For detailed masterpoint calculations please consult the MP Book.

ACBL Live for Clubs is an online tool just for clubs and their members. It’s a better way for players to see how they did at the club. Club members will love the new benefits, like a personal results page and optional automated emails with results information, and clubs will enjoy a simplified process and added customization abilities.
ACBLscore® is software used by clubs to score duplicate bridge and report results to the ACBL. ACBLscore® will handle almost any variation of movement, including individual. It can rank a stratified game with up to three strata, and can score by matchpoints, IMPs or Swiss Teams. It supports a database of players so that it will compute handicaps, print mailing labels, etc.
For installation or technical questions email ACBLscore@acbl.org.



Specifications
Note: A previous version of ACBLscore® is not needed to install.
Note: The ACBL is no longer producing a DOS version of ACBLscore.
System SpecificationsNew in version 8.33
Requirements:
- Operating Systems Supported: Windows XP, Windows 7 – 32 bit, Windows 10 – 32 bit (DOS), Windows 10- 64 bit (Windows)
- Printer: Any is acceptable. A wide-carriage printer (132 columns) dot matrix will produce recaps that may be easier to read, but a narrow dot matrix, laser or inkjet will be adequate. These printers will work with ACBLscore only in Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP.
- Keyboard: Should have a numeric keypad separate from the letter keys for easier numeric entry. A separate set of arrow keys is also helpful.
To report bugs, or if you have installation or technical questions: email ACBLscore@acbl.org or phone 662-253-3165.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Reminder: Club managers can order a full database refresh by logging into MyACBL and selecting Order Member Rosters via email.
Update Instructions – Windows
Just open ACBLScore® , go to Database, Import/Merge, and again option 5. With Windows, the program will ask if you would like it to access the file for you. All you will need to do is provide the District number.
District Files
Link | District |
---|---|
D00MP | All Districts. Note: This file will not fit on one diskette |
D01MP | E Canada |
D02MP | Ontario, Manitoba, Bermuda |
D03MP | E New York (not New York City), N New Jersey |
D04MP | C New York, E Pennsylvania, Delaware, S New Jersey |
D05MP | W New York, W Pennsylvania, NE Ohio, N West Virginia |
D06MP | Virginia, Maryland |
D07MP | Carolinas, E Tennessee, Georgia |
D08MP | N Indiana, Illinois (not Chicago), E Missouri |
D09MP | Florida |
D10MP | W Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas |
D11MP | S Ohio, S Indiana, Kentucky, S West Virginia |
D12MP | Michigan, NW Ohio |
D13MP | Wisconsin, Chicago, Upper Michigan |
D14MP | Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska |
D15MP | W Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, N Texas |
D16MP | Texas (not N or El Paso), Mexico |
D17MP | E Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, S Nevada |
D18MP | Saskatchewan, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Utah, W Wyoming |
D19MP | Washington, British Columbia, Alaska |
D20MP | Oregon, N Nevada, N California, Hawaii |
D21MP | San Francisco area |
D22MP | S California (not Los Angeles) |
D23MP | Los Angeles |
D24MP | New York City |
D25MP | Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island |
D99MP | All areas outside North America |
LAWS / CHANGES /VIDEOS




- Law 1B: The back of each card must be symmetric (Law 1C) and the ACBL encourages the use of packs where the face of each card is also symmetric.
- Law18F: The ACBL Board of Directors authorizes tournament organizers in ACBL sanctioned events to use bidding boxes. Any alternative method which is necessary to enable a person with a disability to compete is authorized subject to the approval of the Director.
- Law 40B1 and Law 40B2(a): An opening bid of 1NT and an opening bid of one in a suit, which by partnership agreement could show fewer than 8 high-card points, is designated a special partnership agreement. These two special partnership agreements are disallowed in all ACBL sanctioned events.
- Law 40B2(a): Both members of a partnership must employ the same system that appears on the convention card.
- During a session of play, a system may not be varied, except with permission of the Tournament Director. (A Director might allow a pair to change a convention but would not allow a pair to change its basic system.)
- At the outset of a round or session, a pair may review its opponents’ convention card and alter its defenses against the opponents’ special understandings and preemptive bids. This must be announced to its opponents. The opponents may not vary their system after being informed of these defensive alterations.
- A partnership, by prior agreement, may not vary its understanding during the auction or play following a question asked a response to a question or any irregularity. >
- Law 40B2(b): Whenever written defenses are required or permitted, they may be referred to by any player whenever it would be appropriate to refer to an opponent’s convention card.
- Law 40B2(c): In addition, a player is permitted to consult an opponent’s convention card at his RHO’s turn to call.
- Law 93C1: A further appeal to the Regulating Authority (ACBL) may be allowed only as follows:
- On a point of law to and at the discretion of the ACBL Laws Commission.
- On an allegation of bias of a committee member or members to and at the discretion of the ACBL Appeals and Charges Committee. The appellant is required to present evidence that the bias was not known at the time of the hearing.
- The appeal must be filed within thirty (30) days of the decision of the Bridge Appeals Committee that heard the issue.
- Law 93C3(a): Except as noted in 7 above, the responsibility of dealing finally with any appeal of a Director’s decision is that of the tournament’s specified tournament body.