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WBF, EBL players database
Evidently the player database, or Results & Participants database, is shared by WBF and EBL (WBF People Finder; EBL Player Lookup).
 * interjection They use the same numerical ID, eg 685=Sally Brock
 * WBF Sally Brock
 * EBL Sally Brock
 * WBF features World Masterpoints and ranks in the header, where EBL features European MP and ranks --both historical and current, a nice touch that WBF lacks.
 * --P64 (talk) 19:54, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

For some early time period its European coverage is limited to high finishes in IBL (1930s) and European Bridge League events. --perhaps Open and Women teams championships alone.

Eg, 4th EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS identifies only two Open and one Women teams, and indirectly links all of their players. That view doesn't show the database omits all players who have no such high results, but so I infer from some more investigation (Talk:Nico Gardener).

Evidently the database covers the European Teams fully from 1979. Compare 33rd Euro Teams, 1977; 34th Euro Teams, 1979.

Euro Pairs? For the Open Pairs, first contested 1976, EBL provides via database long lists of Final Results, at least, from the 4th, 1987 to the 15th, 2009 --only 1st or 1st/2nd before 1987; only 1st/2nd/3rd, 2011; and nothing yet, 2013.

Other WBF Zones? For Gabriel Chagas of Brazil, the "Team Events" record includes only one result from South America and that is not linked to any details (59th CSB CHAMPIONSHIPS / Santiago 2009 - Open Teams; 3rd place). For Marcelo Lerner of Argentina similarly, only the one dead listing (59th CSB CHAMPIONSHIPS / Santiago 2009 - Senior Teams; 1st place). Three prominent players with Far East/Asia Pacific championships have only world results displayed at WBF.

--P64 (talk) 18:07, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note the international records for Sally Brock (linked above) incorporate links to her Master Points records. (WBF provides two links to a single WBF record. EBL provides four links to a single EMP record and four links to four distinct Euro rankings.)
 * This information is not generally available for old players.

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 * General notice. WBF Master Points (wbfmasterpoints.com) is better maintained than the main WBF website on some points. For example, it now lists Bep Vriend #20 among Women Grand Masters while the main site lists her #9  --down only from #8 since April 2011, relying on our biog, presumably lacking update for 2013 if not also 2012.
 * There is no WBF Master Points record for Gordon, however. See the first homepage link "Pre-2002 deceased player records rebuilt" ... that material now shows WBF Master Points records for 61 old players have been rebuilt, including Rixi Markus but not yet her partner. (Rixi Markus rebuilt) (provisional all-time WBF Women)

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 * 2015-02-19, evidently the absence of European achievements from "Rixi Markus rebuilt" is a mistake. Contrast the reconstructed Anna Valenti (1917–2000).. (WBF masterpoints records were deleted upon death, pre-2002.) ...
 * That "Rixi Markus rebuilt" is limited to WBF events. WBF Master Points: Nicola Smith shows World MPs were/are awarded for Euro events at least from 1975 and Markus was a member of the same 1975 Great Britain team. WBF Master Points maintainer Mark Newton requests help, says nothing to indicate whether the rebuild will cover EBL events, has partly done so, etc.
 * --P64 (talk) 18:34, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
 * continued
 * Eight months later it remains true that WBFMP hosts a reconstructed Player Master Point History for Rixi Markus, none for her regular partner Fritzi Gordon. Ipso facto Gordon does not appear on the WBF All time Women's Ranking. The same holds for Pierre Ghestem and René Bacherich. Ghestem is one deceased-pre-2002 player in the WBFMP database (Code=20048) and on the all-time Open list; Bacherich is not, yet.
 * Walter Avarelli (1912–1987) played on all six Italy teams that won EBL and BB championships from 1957 to 1959. His record WBF Master Points Walter Avarelli shows (and others confirm) that the award of WBF Placing Points begins in 1959 for both European and world championships. WBF was established in 1958 and became Bermuda Bowl sponsor a few years later. Its current award of Master Points (MP, which do decay) covers the Bermuda Bowls from the beginning in 1950 and alone prior to 1959.
 * --P64 (talk) 22:49, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * and award begins 1959 for South American championships, namely 1959 Open Zonal 3. --P64 (talk) 23:01, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

World Grand Master
Two preceding sections pertain to the WBF player titles such as Grand Master. The second is a collection of my reports, most recently a couple hours ago. Its heading should now be plural, players databases, because the later reports concern the Master Points and Placing Points (MP and PP) database maintained by Mark Newton, http://www.wbfmasterpoints.com or 'WBFMP' in my notes.
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Beside the player records, including ongoing reconstruction for players deceased before 2002 (see above), WBFMP publishes "Players Whose WBF Titles Have Changed This Year", which is commonly revised more than annually. I have made the current 2014/2015 version one of our formal sources for four of the players who became World Grand Masters in October.

The Internet Archive holds numerous copies of that page from late 2002 to present! For instance, "Players Whose WBF Titles Have Changed This Year" (archived 2002-12-11) shows that nine players including Sabine Auken and Norberto Bocchi (near the top of the alpha list) became Women and Open WGM during 2002.

--P64 (talk) 00:40, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Although WBF Master Points (wbfmasterpoints.com) is new to me during the last year or two, its Home page content is a notice posted by Mark Newton 2002-09-17. I surmise that the site was established that year, with the complete records for living registered players, and that that was the occasion for ending the policy of deletion at death. --P64 (talk) 00:46, 20 February 2015 (UTC)