CONVENTION CARD SOFTWARE AND SITES
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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.
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HCS
System Notebook, HCS CCEditor, and HCS Classic Card Editor.
(September 14, 1998)
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Download convention card and accompanying notes for Standard American and 2/1 on Betterbridge.com
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Looking for information about Convention Cards and Bridge? See our bridge campus for 'learn to play bridge' and 'filling out the convention card' notes and links.
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
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.
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SCORING SOFTWARE
ACBLScore
- the standard in North America.
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]
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.
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.
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
OTHER UTILITIES
Bridge
Calculators
by Richard Pavlicek
Bridge Hand Evaluator
Bridge Hand Calculator
Suit Break Calculator
Dual Suit Break Calculator
Personal Deal Creator
Bridge Score Calculator
Contract and Result
Finder
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
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PLAY BRIDGE
Visit Gifts
& Supplies for Card Players, our sister site, for
a comprehensive list of Bridge Playing Software.
BRIDGE
PRO:
V3.1
- After almost ten years, BridgePro has developed its second
major upgrade. If you own version 1, 2 ,3.0 or simply had
tried the demo version, we invite you to try version 3.1.
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 3.1 is now Windows 7 compatible. Major changes in
the graphic routines will allow play on any screen resolution.
Many user-friendly menu choices have been added and card play
and bidding algorithms have been tweaked. Any questions write:
support@bridgepro.com www.bridgepro.com
(December 2009)
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.
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 )
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.
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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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