Pianola and X-Club

A couple of exciting new developments are happening in this area.

• Vil Gravis, long-time respected Grandmaster (since before 1992) has started contributing commentary on the X-Clubs Home Page
• Pianola reporting is coming to X-Clubs

Vil's commentaries are aimed at the newer players in his home club of Lower Hutt. They play on a Wednesday night so many of his comments are on boards that will have been played at other clubs too. Sometimes he discusses points that pop up in other sessions .. these articles provide valuable insight to all of us.

Bob Fearn, programmer of Compass scoring, is breaking new ground in working up Pianola reporting of X-Clubs results. This means that any registered player who completes an X-Clubs session can now be receiving their X-Clubs results in an e-mail from Pianola. All they have to do is register an email address to get an invitation to create a log-in with Pianola. There is no charge for this excellent service.

Thanks to the generosity of James Ward, founder and CEO of Pianola, it will not be strictly necessary for a club to subscribe to Pianola so that its members can get Pianola results. Pianola e-mails will be going out to any X-Clubs players who have registered their e-mail address with X-Clubs. It's very easy to unsubscribe from this new set of e-mails if it's just all TOO MUCH!! .. (but we hope you give it a shot before doing so).

Once you set up an account with Pianola your playing history will steadily accumulate on-line with the percentages being a much closer assessment of your result than what gets posted on the club noticeboard.

To register for Pianola - click here

Thanks in anticipation of your co-operation
Mike Neels

Pianola Reporting

The image shows what sort of information is accessible via Pianola - it gives you information such as where you underbid/overbid and made overtricks/undertricks ... Once you register - you will get an email after each X-Club session with a link to check out your playing stats.

Anna