CONVENTION CARD SOFTWARE AND SITES
- 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!
- Create
Your Own Card - Convention Card Utility (Windows) by Merlin
Vilhauer, Portland, OR, USA.
- MACINTOSH
Convention Card bmap - A PICT
file. To use it for printing your own convention card, modify
it with a painting or drawing program. I find that blue
text stands out with agreeable contrast. A service for the
Mac community by Bob Leedom!
- Lee
Edwards Convention Card - Lee has now produced a [presumably
final] non-ACBL CCE. It does not have the basic ACBL card, and
it does not have the bug about no convention cards. You can
download it from David
Stevensons web page Lee has also produced an ACBL CCE, which
he is apparently improving over time. This has only got the
ACBL card, and the latest version is at Lee's
page. It will always be safer to get it from Lee's page
than the ACBL site.
- HCS
System Notebook, HCS CCEditor, and HCS Classic Card Editor.
(September 14, 1998)
- April
17, 2002 - I have been looking at your website and am very impressed
! I provide a Bridge
Scoring program called ScoreBridge I have only been offering
it for under a year but I already have 150 users in 20 different
countries I believe those who visit your web site may be looking
for a very easy and user friendly Bridge Scoring system for
club use. Many thanks Stephen
Bligh
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DEALERS
BIG
DEAL NOW AVAILABLE
The
dealing program Big Deal
was used to generate all hands for the Olympiad in Maastricht,
and might well become the standard dealing program for the WBF.
"This
is a program to just generate deals for a tournament, without
repeating series, statistically good, and safe. No possibility
to select types of hands or whatever. Just deals for tournaments.
This is in sharp contrast with my previous program, Dealer, that
excelled in the selection part, but as I know now, failed in most
respects when it comes to tournament dealing. Big Deal is available,
free, including sources and documentation, from Very highly recommended
to switch from whatever you are using now to Big Deal. To know
why, read the docs. Most people are convinced after one read.
Let me know if you are not one of them. " ... Hans September
22, 2000
DEALMASTER
PRO
New Dealmaster Pro uses Deep Finesse for Unique Analyses and
Hand Record data
February 22, 2001 - Version 2.0 of Dealmaster Pro will feature
a major interface with Deep Finesse, the popular 100% accurate
double dummy analyzer, enabling analyses of sets of bridge deals
never before practical. In addition, the popular Dealmaster Pro
Hand Records and Travellers will display makeable contracts for
each deal. The program will be available in early March and demonstrated
March 17-21 at the NABC in Kansas City. Read
the full Press Release here
Dealmaster Pro
has all Dealmaster's famous features PLUS the "ultimate" Deal
Generator/Simulator. Deal Generation is up to 40 times faster!
Dealmaster's Deal Generator/Simulator are very powerful and satisfies
the requirements of many users. For those who need even more in
Deal Generation power, we believe Dealmaster Pro has all the answers.
It is perhaps 20 times more powerful than Dealmaster. Dealmaster
is offering one $1000. prize to someone who enters a Deal Generation
problem that Dealmaster Pro cannot solve. Dealmaster Pro was introduced
at NABC in Boston (Nov.1999).
Deal
your club or your home game an entire set of hands, using deal slips
and hand records simply by refreshing a web page.
Sounds like magic! Click
Here for info about this and other useful utilities from Gord
Murray.
DEAL
3.07 - 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
Anders
Wirgren's Dealer Software for Mac or Windows - May be downloaded
from the
Scania website. 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. Scania BridgeDealer is a full dealer, and a
DEMO can be downloaded from the above ste as well. For
review click here.
Henk
Uijterwaal's Dealer - The program runs under all Unix flavors
that I've come accross in the last couple of years, including
Linux. Original code: Hans van Staveren (sater@xs4all.nl) Modified
by Henk Uijterwaal, (henk@ripe.net) GNU random generator introduced
by Bruce Moore (Bruce.Moore@akamail.com) Exhaust Mode by Francois
Dellacherie.
Henk's
JavaShuffle
can be found here as well!.
Dealer-Hans
van Staveren Program
There is now a page dedicated to items about the Staveren
Dealer program that are found on rec.games.bridge
Duper and Dynamic
Dealer - versions 2.0, were released February 22, 1999
Dynamic
Dealer generates hands that, while random, conform to specifications
entered by the user (high card points and suit lengths). The latest
version has much improved printing routines, allowing more hands
per page; an improved interface; and many more additions. Version
2.0 requires Windows 95, 98, or NT.
Duper is a duplicate bridge utility for generating and printing
random hands. The latest version has much improved printing routines,
allowing more hands per page. (As before, you can also print individual
hand sheets.) Version 2.0 requires Windows 95, 98, or NT.
OKScript
and BridgeX - OKScript is widely used to create a button
bars for okbridge (and other online) players. It greatly simplifies
the alerting process. Version 4 coming soon!
BridgeX is a DOS hand dealer with shape and point filters. (September
20, 1998)
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SCORING SOFTWARE
ACBLScore
- the standard in North America.
SWISS TEAMS - Henk Uijterwaal - More than 10 years ago, I wrote
a program to do Swiss teams on a computer. The program adds up
the scores for the teams and then generates pairings for the next
round, all this in a couple of seconds for tournaments of up to
500 teams and 15 rounds. Over the last year, I completely redesigned
the program, made it work on both Unix and MS-DOS, and added a
couple of features. HTML'ed output is now also available, click
for a demo. To be honest, HTML wasn't really my idea, I only did
this after seeing the work done on HTML'ing scores in Toronto.
A manual is in the works. Click
Here to go to site . Copyright: The software is freely distributable
under the GNU GPL
BRIDGESCORER will do the scoring for a bridge tournement
or club competition. It is based on four seperate programs : The
mainprogram BRIDGESCORER which offers you ca 200 different movements
for maximal 240 pairs, 20 rounds and 40 boards. Easy scoring and
many options for calculation, showing and printing. Intelligent
robots will assign movements dependant of the number of pairs
and rounds. Next sessions will be re-indexed automatically. The
program MOVEMENT CREATOR will enable you to create own movements
to use. Program CLUBCOMPETITION will give you an overview of more
clubsessions and the last program DEALGENERATOR will generate
boards with many handy options. A nice BRIDGETIMER is an extra
option or can be ordered separately. Dirk Van Der Plas, Middelburg,
Zeeland, Netherlands English
Site | Dutch Site
SOME FREEWARE TOO - The freeware Duplicatescoring
shows and print all duplicate scoring tables.
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]
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)
FIN-S for Bridge Club Scorers, Tournament
Directors and Event Organisers Fin-S
is a comprehensive suite of scoring and utility programs. Whatever
you do with Bridge Scoring, it is designed to make your life easier.
The site includes lots of data on what the program looks like,
how it works, etc., including a Training Video recorded using
Lotus ScreenCam.
D-Score Makes Interesting Promise -
"If you want to know whether your performance as a duplicate
bridge player has improved over a period of time; stayed on the
same level for a long while; got worse as the time went by; or
is quite erratic but you've never noticed it - then you need to
use the D-SCORE program." Click
Here for more ...
Pairs en Teams
bridge scoring software. Pairs and Teams is software which is
used for scoring a variaty of bridgecontests. These programs are
suitable for a big tournament as well as for your local bridge
evening. This nice looking web site includes a page which lists
interesting links for those who use computers to score their bridge
contests. Netherlands.
Score Duplicate
Bridge Games On The Macintosh Tom Vind, Minnesota. MacRecap
is approved by the ACBL for scoring sanctioned duplicate bridge
games in clubs on the Macintosh. (September 25, 1997)
BRIDGESCORER will do the scoring for a bridge tournement
or club competition. It is based on four seperate programs : The
mainprogram BRIDGESCORER which offers you ca 200 different movements
for maximal 240 pairs, 20 rounds and 40 boards. Easy scoring and
many options for calculation, showing and printing. Intelligent
robots will assign movements dependant of the number of pairs
and rounds. Next sessions will be re-indexed automatically. The
program MOVEMENT CREATOR will enable you to create own movements
to use. Program CLUBCOMPETITION will give you an overview of more
clubsessions and the last program DEALGENERATOR will generate
boards with many handy options. A nice BRIDGETIMER is an extra
option or can be ordered separately. Dirk Van Der Plas, Middelburg,
Zeeland, Netherlands English
Site | Dutch Site
SOME FREEWARE TOO - The freeware Duplicatescoring
shows and print all duplicate scoring tables.
OTHER UTILITIES
February 2006 :: Freeware
from Merlin Vilhauer : A Convention Card Editor and an Upload
Program to put results onto a website. It reads the acblscor
gamefiles and creates a recap and leader sheet and uploads all
in one step.
Bridge
Calculators
by Richard Pavlicek
Bridge Hand Evaluator
Bridge Hand Calculator
Suit Break Calculator
Dual Suit Break Calculator
Wheeler Dealer
Personal Deal Creator
Bridge Score Calculator
Contract and Result
Finder
Hank
Uijterwaal's Swiss
Teams on your Computer
BACKAS
FREE BRIDGE FILE CONVERTER UPDATED - it now reads OK-bridge
files of .rec type in addition to the earleier supported file
types. Reading of PBN has been improved it now should read %Import
type of .PBN files correctly (previously only %export format).
Click Here for NEW
HOMEPAGE. Kaj G Backas.
April 2002
POST
SCRIPT BRIDGE HAND Print those World Championship hands!
- from Masakatsu Sugino- a Windows program that prints out bridge
hand records in a graphical way from PBN (Potable Bridge Notation)
format data files. The program is able to read and write PBN files.
The double dummy analysis is performed with Gib's engine. The
graphical presentation is stored in a PostScript file, that can
be manipulated with a PostScript viewer.
SuitPlay:
free software for evaluation of suit combinations SuitPlay
is a software-program for evaluation of suit combinations. The
result is comparable with that of Roudinesco or the bridge-encyclopedia.
However, the program is flawless and does analyse (almost) any
self-chosen suit combination. If you are interested, just send
e-mail to Jeroen Warmerdam
who will return the free program by e-mail. The program is already
some years old. It was announced and distributed the same way
as I do now. The old version however did not work on fast pc's
(well, what we called fast three years ago) due to an error by
Borland. That is fixed in the current version. Source code is
not distributed. 4 Feb 2001
MINI-ED
Have fun with this neat little Bridge
Hand Dealer from Jean- Luc Garneau. It comes in English and
French. Note: I can only get it working in Microsoft's Internet
Explorer.
PBN
- PBN stand for Portable Bridge Notation. PBN is a proposal for
saving bridge deals from competitions or game programs in a universal
and platform independent file system. PBN is a universal notation
for bridge games. It has been developed to read and write bridge
games in PBN files by any bridge program on any platform. There
are several bridge programs that have implemented the PBN format.
(I'm very glad that GIB has adopted PBN.) The PBN standard and
additional information can be found on the PBN
homepage A new version of the PBN Verifier, that has been
written in JAVA. I hope this eases the verification of PBN files
on any platform, and the generation of PBN files in export format
for all platforms. More details can be found in the read.me file
inside the archives on the PBN homepage. - Tis Veugen
February 5, 1999 -
Having problems getting connected and staying connected to any
of your online bridge games? Maybe you might want to try this
cool software Stay
Connected! which will help you get connected and stay connected
to them once and for all without being disconnected again.
FLEX B
February 1996 - Herman Van Ree, Holland, introduces FLEX B, software
designed to help you test your bidding system! You will also find
his Bridge Command Language, and more, and it is all quite curious
- an interesting site no doubt.
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PLAY BRIDGE
November
20, 2002 - EuroBridge
is a new, free, computer bridge program (European style). For
this version you will need MS-Access installed on your computer.
MS- Access is also included in the MS-Office packages. Developer
Hans van Vliet invites
your comments and bug reports, praise, criticisms and suggestions
for improvement.
Tutorial
Bridge version 4.3 (March 2005) :: Shareware - play and
if you like, $27 USD, pay online.
Info URL: http://www.learnbridge.com
Download: http://learnbridge.com/tb_setup.exe
Screenshot: http://www.learnbridge.com/form1.jpg
PAD File: http://www.learnbridge.com/pad_file.xml
Icon: http://www.learnbridge.com/tbicon.gif
Tutorial Bridge is a program for learning the game of contract
bridge while at the same time playing and enjoying the game. It
gives the reasoning behind each non-trivial bid that is made,
or card that is played. The user can interact with the program
at a rate that is consistent with his or her current knowledge
of the game. The ability to undo any bid or play permits the student
to compare his or her action with what the program would do in
the same situation.
March
01, 2002 - Special
K Bridge Software - download shareware. Version 2.9 for Windows
95/98, includes options to play with many of these. It also supports
most non-standard screen resolutions. Bidding logic has also been
enhanced. The latest addition is version 2.9.
Feb
18, 2001 -Bridge Mentor teaching
computer program free trial
For beginning to intermediate level players. Download trial.
MVP
BRIDGE
"Acknowledged as the best shareware Bridge game available, this
major new version includes improved Artificial Intelligence for
better bidding and play, internet multiplayer support, new 256-color
graphics, an improved tutorial for Bridge beginners, 13 conventions,
and the best user interface of any Bridge game available. See
why MVP Bridge is the only shareware game ever nominated two years
in a row by Computer Gaming World for its industry awards."
Filesize: 1,460,466 bytes: Download
FREE.
Bridge
Bidding Trainer V2.0 - "New SHAREWARE program for Windows
and NT to practise your own bidding system. A useful tool for
players, pairs, and teams interested in improving their own bidding
skills. It can also be used as a hand dealer with conditions on
hands and it makes statistics on the conditions imposed, so that
it will be also useful to bridge teachers and bidding researchers.
The situation at a bridge table is exactly reproduced. You only
see your own cards and the development of the auction up to the
moment you bid. At any moment you can see the full boards and
bidding up to this moment..." English or Spanish.
(October 6, 2000 )
GOTO
Software's Bridge - Shareware and Commercial versions. Their
review: "With GOTO Bridge, Windows® compatible, you're going to
learn how to play Bridge and train yourself to become a master!
Bridge is able to play deals against your PC: play random, numbered
or prepared hands. Bridge has a very friendly interface, talks
and makes suggestions when requested by the player. " Try their
free SHAREWARE.
Bridge
Bidding Program - by Platon Beletsky. (March 24, 1999)
WBridge5
- (updated the 22/01/99, French Only). - Not only a program
that plays bridge but also an easy to use hand generator; reads
PBN files; allows storing of comments, and is free.... Works under
Windows95, Windows98, WindowsNT. Wbridge5 will participate in
the next world championship of Bridge Software and needs your
help. I welcome your comments, ideas and bug reporting. Thank
You -
SmartBridge
- Francesco Barcio, Italy. "A well designed but simple Bridge
game. It has many options such as background music, voice messages,
bidding help, the ability to save games in PBN format, re-play
games from PBN archives, edit games and much more." Shareware.
Free to try, $25 if you decide to keep it.
Easy
Bridge - Freebie lovers rejoice! V4
now Available and it is still FREE!
Read the latest news
HERE. Or download Easy Bridge 4 HERE.
MVPsoft
- Shareware Card Games for Windows, many voted Best Shareware
Card Games by Computer Gaming World Magazine. You'll find MVPbridge,
which they claim is the best Shareware bridge software available
today (Windows, and DOS). You'll also find Hearts, Cribbage, Euchre,
Spades, and more.
Wild
Card Games - Download FREE SOFTWARE to play card games against
the computer or over the internet. Bridge, Pinochle, & Hearts
(soon to come Spades, Gin, 500 Rummy and more). Windows 3.1/95/NT.
Nice Graphics.
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REVIEWS
 Great
Bridge Links' SOFTWARE REVIEWS page features a list of software
and cd reviews by Nelson Ford and others. Most of these reviews
were written in 2001. However, you will also find links to more
current reviews, and Nelson's reviews were very comprehensive
at the time including screen shots of the different software.
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