BRIDGE SOFTWARE

Bridge Baron 16

Bridge Baron 17 is available for the Macintosh. Play Bridge with the five-time winner of the world computer bridge championship & the program top-ranked by the ACBL! With over 2 billion deals, Bridge Baron offers you the most comprehensive, easy-to-use, bridge game available. Bridge Baron is the product of over 40 years of research and development and has benefited from sixteen revisions to this great bridge-playing game.

Bidding Quest - bridge practice software in three platforms: Windows, Mac & Linux (July 2007)


"Today, I took delivery of four very special pieces of bridge software." With these words Mike Lawrence introduces Bridge Software for the Macintosh. Click here for Mike Lawrence's website

BRIDGE PRO: After 3 years, BridgePro has developed its first major upgrade. If you own version 1.x or simply had tried the demo version, we invite you to try version 2. 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." Version 2 has newly added Acol bidding and weak no-trump options in addition to a large array of other conventions.  A free demo is available for Windows and Macintosh (not compatible with Mac's new INTEL chip). www.bridgepro.com Any questions write: support@bridgepro.com (July 2007)

Bridge 8.0 for Mac. - Artworx Software.
FREE demo, 10 hands. While you're there, try some of their other card game's FREE Demos. Note - it is likely these games will work only in Classic Mac mode.

Mike Lawrence's Bridge Dealer - This is a nice little product that will deal hands to your specifications and will help you decide on knotty bidding problems. There are some fun and some informative things you can do with this program. For PC or the Mac. Click Here


ALPINE CHESS AND GAMES FONTS
BERMUDA Bridge Font
- The Bermuda font family includes 12 card and bridge fonts in both TrueType and PostScript formats and an excellent 8 page UserĖs Guide. Each of the 10 card fonts includes all 52 cards, 4 card backs, a blank card, a joker, a card with a large club, a card with a large spade, a card with a large heart and a card with a large diamond. The two bridge fonts can create any bridge diagram which can include the declarer and dummy. Samples can be found on the web page. (Also on the Alpine Font site: Chess, Go, Checkers, Shogi, and more. $29/font, PC or Mac.


FREEWARE

Anders Wirgren's DealGenerator
DealGenerator is a simple program for generating random bridge deals. You can view the deals on the screen and/or print North's and South's hands on different sheets of paper for bidding practice. Enjoy bridge puzzles and more from the new web site of Anders Wirgren -Scania Bridge, home of Scania BridgeDealer and DealGenerator. Available for CLASSIC MACs only (don not run under OS X)


Score Duplicate Bridge Games On The Macintosh
from Tom Vind, Minnesota. MacRecap is approved by the ACBL for scoring sanctioned duplicate bridge games in clubs on the Macintosh. (June 7, 2001)

 


Welcome to our Macintosh page. Here we have gathered somelinks to Macintosh Bridge Software and other Links and Articles of interest to Macintosh OS users. These online bridge clubs are just a few of the many that are now available to Mac users through Java interfaces. Visit our Play Online and Bridge Software pages to find more clubs and software for the Mac.

ONLINE BRIDGE WITH A MAC

BRIDGE BASE ONLINE TV

WHAT'S BBOTV? BBOTV is a technology preview of the next version of BRIDGE BASE ONLINE. Watch vu-graphs of tournaments around the world!

I never thought I'd be adding Bridge Base Online to my Mac page! Hats off to Fred Gitelman for stepping up to the plate and providing the online community with a service that is not platform dependant and does not require software downloads, installation or updates. Latest news about BBOTV available here. www.bbotv.com/v2/ My iMAC worked on this link

BRIDGE CLUB LIVE

A popular online bridge club with kibitzing, chatting etc. as well as full range of play and tournaments.

Runs under Microsoft Windows but also has a JAVA client that allows operation under almost all operating systems (AppleMacs, Linux, UNIX etc.) that use any 4.x or higher browser with Java 1.1 enabled.

Free trial memberships and a FREE Rubber and Duplicate Room for guests. Very reasonable annual rates for full membership, including all tournament with unlimited play. (Available in German, Dutch, French and English). For more information click here.

TOPBRIDGE - Individual Bridge Tournament Site

The online bridge server from Norway allows you to play in singles tournaments - you don't have to search for partners or open tables! Five tournaments a week. Start whenever you want from: 7:30 am - 7:00 am. Money Prizes! Purchase play by the Board Topbridge can be played on all operating systems supporting java 1.2 including the Mac

For more information including rates click here

BRIDGE 4 MONEY

This online money bridge club, is led by David Gold, a professional bridge player and an anchor member of the England Bridge Team.The bridge is played in an attractive and clear Full Java interface (adjustable to personal preferences) which operates across all operating systems including UNIX and Linux with modern browsers.

OKBRIDGE

OKbridge is the internet's oldest and one of the most popular online bridge clubs. Unlike most others, OKb is available to MacOS users as well as Windows. Also unlike most others, OKbridge charges a yearly fee. However, there is a 1 week free membership offered and the yearly fee works out to less than weekly club fees in the offline world.

Mac Users (and many others) can play OKbridge using the OKweb interface.

THE BRIDGE DOCTOR

Perfect Online Bridge Club for Beginners. Learn how to play bridge online with contract bridge lessons covering bidding and the rules of bridge. Play ACOL or Standard American. The perfect bridge for beginners website. No Software to Install.


OTHER SOFTWARE YOU MIGHT NEED

PDF READER

Adobe Acrobat Reader - A lot of tournament bulletins are presented in PDF format. This can be easily read using Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The bulletins are in colour, very professionally laid out, and include photos and other graphic niceties. Worth the time to download this FREE reader. For hints on reading these online bulletins, visit the Pressroom on Great Bridge Links.

CONVENTION CARD SOFTWARE

hi pard! A partnership desk in cyberspace Create an online convention card, or many! They are stored on the hi pard site, available for printing directly from the web page. No more messy downloads or platform limitations. Partners can go to the site and take a look at your partnership card. Very cool service!

Macintosh Convention Card
Convention Card bmap - A PICT file to use for printing your own convention card. Modify it with a painting or drawing program. Blue text stands out with agreeable contrast. A service for the Mac community from Bob Leedom! Updated August 2007

 

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