All 53 octillion (that’s 53 billion billion billion) bridge deals as possible random deals in Bridge Baron
4 new bidding conventions, including Namyats, Lead-Directing Doubles, Wolff Sign-Off Bids, and Artificial Minor Bids after 1M-X
4 new Bridge Tournaments, including the 2006 Cavendish at cross-IMPs
24 new Bridge Challenges have been added, totaling 216 problem deals in all
Improved bidding and play
New options for leads/signals/discards, including odd/even, Lavinthal, Smith Echo, Journalist, and 0-or-2-higher
Now chose to open 1NT with a 6 card minor or a stiff honor
Now chose to play Puppet stayman after 1NT, after 2NT, or both
Now choose to play just notrump deals
Double-dummy and par-contract solvers
Network play, including LAN, Serial Cable Connection, Modem and
Internet, is available for Windows 95/98/2000/Me/XP/Vista.
Ability to change the opening 1NT range and the
opening 2NT range.
Several deal settings to choose from, including
random hands, part score hands, game hands, slam hands, user entered deals and
user generated deals created with the Deal Generator. Ability to set the best
hand and dealer.
Ability to specify which hands will be played by a human
and which hands will be played by the computer.
Game types include:
Rubber
Duplicate
Chicago (Party Bridge)
Single Deals
Seven bidding systems:
Standard American Five-Card Majors
Two-over-One Game Force
Acol
La Majeure Cinquième
Precision
SAYC
Forum D
Gerber and Blackwood are automatically programmed into Bridge Baron.
Over 70 optional bidding conventions include:
1NT-2S Minor Sign-Off
2C-2H Double Negative
4-Suited Transfers after 1NT
Astro
Benjamin 2-Bids
Bergen Raises
Brozel
Cappelletti
Checkback Stayman
Control Asking Bids
Control Responses to 2C Openers
Control-Showing Cuebids
D.O.N.T.
DOPI
Drury
Eastern Cue-Bids
Extended Stayman
Flannery
Forcing 1NT over 1H/1S
Gambling NT
Ghestem
Grand Slam Force
Hello over 1NT
Inverted Minor Raises
Inverted Bergen Raises
Invisible Cuebids
Jacoby Transfers
Landy
Lebensohl After Double of Weak Two-Bid
Lebensohl After Overcall of 1NT
Limit Major Raises
Limit-Plus Cue-Bids
Long/Help-Suit Game Tries
Mathe Asking Bids
Maximal Overcall Doubles
Michaels Cue Bid
Mini-Multi
Minor-Suit Stayman
Multi 2D
Multi-Roman
Negative Double
New Minor Forcing
Ogust
Precision Two over One
Precision Conventions:
Impossible Negative 2NT
Transfer Stayman
Unusual Positive Responses to Precision 1C
Gamma Trump Asks
Epsilon Control Asks
Baron
Preemptive Reraises
Puppet Stayman
RKC 1430
Responsive Doubles
Reverse Drury
Robinson
Roman Keycard Blackwood
Sandwich 1NT
Semi-Forcing 1NT
Short Club
Short-Suit Game Tries
Smolen
Specific King Asks
Splinter Bids
Step Responses to 2C Openers
Support Doubles
Stayman
Texas
Truscott 2NT
Unusual Notrump
Unusual over Unusual
various Notrump Runouts
Voluntary Bid of 5 in a Major Suit
Walsh
Weak 2-Bid
Weak Jump Overcall
Weak Jump-Shift Responses
Western Cue-Bids
Options during the bidding include the ability to obtain:
An evaluation of your hand from the standpoint of points, quick tricks,
and playing tricks, with an explanation of how the points are counted.
A screen showing what is known about each hand on the basis of the
auction up to that point.
Bidding flowcharts that map out the process Bridge Baron uses to
decide on its bid.
Compete in bridge tournaments and receive scores based
on the actual tournament results:
ACBL Baltimore Regional 1995
ACBL San Diego Summer 1994 Nationals
ACBL Albuquerque Summer 1997 Nationals
ACBL St. Louis Fall 1997 Nationals
ACBL Reno Spring 1998 Nationals
ACBL Indianapolis Fall 1991 Nationals
ACBL Kansas City Spring 1993 Nationals
ACBL Boston Summer 1990 Nationals
ACBL Washington, DC Summer 1993 Nationals
ACBL Toronto Summer 1986 Nationals
ACBL Atlanta Fall 1986 Nationals
ACBL Lancaster Fall 1972 Nationals
ACBL San Antonio Fall 1974 Nationals
ACBL Atlanta Fall 1977 Nationals
ACBL Washington, D.C. Summer 1984 Nationals
Play complete bridge matches of up to 16 boards each, with
either IMP's, Board-a-Match or Total Points scoring methods.
Practice bidding conventions on millions of different deals,
including "near misses".
Test your declarer play with 168 challenging deals designed
by Easley Blackwood.
The Deal Library allows players to create, save and edit deals
in a disk file, and can be used to read other PBN (Portable Bridge Notation) files.
The Deal Generator allows players to create deals meeting
specified point-count and distribution criteria, and can be used to create deals confroming
to particular bidding sequences.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- Windows (English, French, German only) : 32 MB RAM, 300 MB hard drive space, Windows
95/98/2000/Me/NT4.0/XP operating system.
- Macintosh/iMac/MacOS (English and French only) : System 8.6 or higher, 32 MB RAM
(64 MB RAM recommeded), 75 MB hard drive space. OS X compatible.
Feel free to contact us if you have
any other questions about Bridge Baron.
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