SOFTWARE DEMOS

JACK - Winner of many World Computer Championships. Free DEMO version of JACK. Click Here for English Version ::> In this demo Jack bids and plays at full strength. Besides 12 random deals, a tournament session of 21 deals is included. Some options have been disabled. The demon page also has a CD Inlay for printing for those of you wanting to put your demo on a CD. Cute.

BRIDGE PRO: V2 - The ACBL Bridge Bulletin's editor, Paul Linxwiler said: "If you enjoy playing solo bridge with computer opponents and partners, BridgePro makes a nice, inexpensive choice." A free demo is available for Windows and Macintosh. www.bridgepro.com

Bridge Baron - PC and Mac. With over 2 billion deals, Bridge Baron offers you the most comprehensive, easy-to-use, bridge game available. Lots of demos and patches can be downloaded HERE

BRIDGE BIDDING TRAINER V2.0 - Bridge program to train the bidding BBT is a complete program to practice and improve your own bidding system. Windows or NT . Download Free demos here

Bridge Manager - (PC only) offers great new features for Bridge Baron®, the popular and acclaimed computer bridge game. Bridge Manager now also supports PBN (Portable Bridge Notation) deals, and can be used with many other bridge programs as well. Download free demo here

Meadowlark Software - Offers a FREE demo that will play 4 rubbers and 5 24-hand duplicate games. PC only. Download Here

Micro Bridge - Placed 3rd in the 2002 World Computer Bridge Championships. Highly intelligent contract bridge software supporting network play and many types of duplicate. Download here

Q-PLUS Bridge - one of the top bridge programs on the market today, placing 4th in the 2002 World Computer Bridge Championships. FREE demo Download here

Blue Chip Bridge - "Blue Chip Bridge is way ahead of its competitors when it comes to Acol bidding. The number one for Acol players" - Mark Horton - British International (Daily Telegraph). Blue Chip placed 5th in the 2002 World Computer Bridge Championships. Download Here

Bridge Buff 10 - Download Demo Here - also Visual Deal

Oxford Bridge from Thinking Games. New Site Here You can download a demo version of OXFORD BRIDGE - The demo is a working version of the software, but is limited to 6 hands before the deal routine repeats. The hand load/save/edit functions have also been disabled. English and Italian Demo Download Here

Brassem Bridge - "the best and most amusing Dutch bridgeprogram" also available in English. You can play eight boards as many times as you wish to get a good impression of BraassemBridge. You can also make a limited use of the practising on suit-combinations. Windows 95+. English and Dutch. Dowload Here

Bridge 8.0 for IBM and Mac. - Artworx Software.
FREE demo, 10 hands, for MAC or PC. While you're there, try some of their other card game's FREE Demos.

Bridge Master- Bridge Base Inc.
Outstanding teaching program. User must solve problems in declarer play - only proper technique works. DOS or Windows only. FREE demo link

Let's Play Bridge - From this site a person can read about this game and download a FREE version of LPB that is capable of playing a number of games (Windows 3.1 or higher). This version can be made fully functional by a simple telephone call or by e-mailing Let's Play Bridge.

Play 'n Learn Bridge This software has hit the top 20 downloads at www.zdnet.com/downloads many times - it is the most popular "free" bridge software download in this premiere download site. Free demo (Windows) Click Here.  (Purchase online for 49.95 usd) email: Sri Vasudevan April 3, 2002

Play Bridge with Larry Cohen - Tutorial CDs- . Free demo download features selected deals. Interactive CD with "Over-my-Shoulder" style presentation.

Dabrisoft Declarer Play Software - Dabrisoft's educational bridge software on declarer play, "Declarer Play in Suit Contracts", has been translated into English and is now available. You can download a free demoversion and online shopping is available.

Play the Vanderbilt with Kit Woolsey - Play the Vanderbilt is an over-the-shoulder type of product, with the actual hands from the 1996 Vanderbilt and from the viewpoint of each player. Readers are invited to download and examine a free demo version.

Membership Director - Software for bridge clubs to use to track information about their members. Comprehensive, easy to use, and economical. At $75 there isn't a better way to track members, dues, committees, attendance, awards, contributions, etc. Download FREE demo (limited to 20 members) at the site.

Software Demo Download Page from The Bridge Shop - if it's not here, it's there ::>

FREEWARE

LEARN TO PLAY BRIDGE - The ACBL & ACBL Educational Foundation - This FREE program was written by one of the top bridge software authors and is brought to you by the American Contract Bridge League, the largest bridge organization in the world. Download the program onto your computer, and take the lessons at your own pace, offline. You don't need any prior card playing experience to take these lessons.

LEARN TO PLAY BRIDGE - II (DEFENSE)
The ACBL & ACBL Educational Foundation have just released a sequal to the free software, Learn to Play Bridge. The initial program has been met with rave reviews. The sequel is written in the same easy to use style and allows you to develop more playing and bidding skills while introducing the art of defense. Click Here for more ::>

Bridge7 from Turkey's Yalcin Pekiner Free Software for practising bidding & playing. July 30, 2002

WBridge5 - 2nd place in two World Computer Championships - still FREE! In French

SHAREWARE

Lots of Shareware (and more Freeware) can be found in Silicon Alley. Click Here to be routed to the Great Bridge Links Software Pages.

Free shareware Duplicate Scorer program which supports Bridgemate Pro electronic scoring.  Companion Club Database Manager application gives full club management facilities including electronic registration of EBU Master Points.  You can download Keith Sheppard's Duplicate Scorer from: http://www.bracknellbridge.com/scorer/dshome.htm.  Also available is his "WebScore" product which allows league scorers (in any sport) to receive match results via the Internet. If anyone is interested in the latter, please see http://homepages.tesco.net/~Keith.Sheppard/WebScore.htm or contact Keith Keith.Sheppard@tesco.net by email. [November 2005]

FREE UTILITIES

Bridge Chronograph
A FREE bridge clock for those who don't have enough time. Able to run in a computer with two display adapters. From Takis Pournaras Email: opaf@yahoo.com

Webpage Hand Creator - If you have ever struggled with formatting bridge hands for a webpage, hooray, your troubles are over. Hand Creator makes it so easy! Simply enter the card values in a form, click the button and the HTML code is created for you, which you then copy and paste into your web page. From Contractbridge.net and free! ::>

Deal 3.07 is a bridge hand generator by Thomas Andrews. Features: Easy to use for quick, simple dealing; Customizable output formats; Infinitely extensible via TCL; Easily portable to most platforms; and Free Software under GPL license
"... the most powerful dealing program we've seen." - Matt Ginsberg, www.gibware.com

FREE LINKS

FREESTUFF.COM - lots of links to free stuff throughout the internet. Webmaster: Tony

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