[Vampyr]

I wish the OP would come back and tell us how the curtain card error caused the board to be unplayable.

[Barry]

This problem occurred at my local bridge club recently. I was not directing that evening but at the end of the session I was asked how to score a board that had been fouled. This, remember, was a teams of four event. Hence I sent the question off to your forum. I had asked how the board had become fouled. Apparently East at the previous table had misrecorded the curtain card. She had written AKQD when it should have been KQJD. The next East player announced that his curtain card did not correspond to his hand and called the Director. At the same time North announced that his curtain card was also wrong. Unfortunately he had placed the AD in with his heart suit. I know that this sounds like a rerun of the Muppet Show but that is what happened. I believe that this problem could have been resolved and that the hand could have been played at that table but it was not and everybody seemed to think that the board had been fouled.
I do not know how this information would change how the board would be scored. I realise now that I should have provided this information with the original question.

[Vampyr]

Barry, on Feb 6 2010, 11:02 AM, said:

I do not know how this information would change how the board would be scored.

It may still be scored the same, but the big difference is that now the reason for an adjustment is director error.

[bluejak]

Barry, on Feb 6 2010, 11:02 AM, said:

This problem occurred at my local bridge club recently.   I was not directing that evening but at the end of the session I was asked how to score a board that had been fouled.   This, remember, was a teams of four event.   Hence I sent the question off to your forum.   I had asked how the board had become fouled.   Apparently East at the previous table had misrecorded the curtain card.  She had written AKQD when it should have been KQJD.    The next East player announced that his curtain card did not correspond to his hand and called the Director.   At the same time North announced that his curtain card was also wrong.   Unfortunately he had placed the AD in with his heart suit.  I know that this sounds like a rerun of the Muppet Show but that is what happened.  I believe that this problem could have been resolved and that the hand could have been  played at that table but it was not and everybody seemed to think that the board had been fouled. 
I do not know how this information would change how the board would be scored.  I realise now that I should have provided this information with the original question.

This is exactly the sort of time-wasting and completely unnecessary problem that curtain cards so often cause. Penalise the club for not getting rid of them. But certainly the board was playable, so I am afraid it was TD error.

[Vampyr]

bluejak, on Feb 6 2010, 09:12 PM, said:

This is exactly the sort of time-wasting and completely unnecessary problem that curtain cards so often cause.  Penalise the club for not getting rid of them.

[mycroft]

The only time I used curtain cards was when my partner and I hand-duped 2x36 boards for a simultaneous pairs - it was so odd out here, I had to explain it carefully - and I took the cards after the first round checks. We hadn't made a mistake :-)

(this was the same one I had to end up playing to fill in a movement. I did warn everyone that we had made the hands, but that it really wasn't going to matter, because it wasn't like we could remember anything. As proof, we scored 46%...)