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Bridgemates and Union Numbers

It’s very common for Bridgemate-using clubs to use
EBU/WBU numbers as the means of players identifying
themselves at the Bridgemate handset at the start of an
event.

Using Union numbers provides an additional, optional,
capability for the club, whereby the national database may be
used as a secondary lookup for Union numbers which are not
found within the club’s own database.

If for example you have visitors playing at your club, they can
enter their Union number, be identified by name on the
Bridgemates throughout the event, and optionally be added
automatically as visitors to your club database.

Popular scoring programs in the UK and Ireland provide the
option to download the national union database for this
purpose, but note that the File Location tab within Bridgemate
Control Software should be used to locate this
BMPlayerDB.mdb database somewhere other than within
Program Files (x86). Creating a folder C:\Bridgemate is ideal
for this purpose, and is also a sensible location for the
Bridgemate log files.

Note that if your club is using [ex-]Jeff Smith programs, you
need to tick the box labelled ‘Disable PID check’ if you want
players to enter their Union numbers at the Bridgemate by
default.