[ehhh]

Does anyone know of any hand dealer shareware out there that is user friendly.

[DenisO]

You could try Richard Pavlicek's DOS program,RP Dealer - see :

http://www.rpbridge.net/rpbr.htm#11

and best of all it's FREE


Denis

[hrothgar]

I'm fond on hans cvan stavern's "dealer"
very powerful freeware

[ehhh]

thanxs hrothgar,

big dealer by stavern looks very promising
in fact the LIN files it generartes look identical to BBO
i'm having some problem sorting it out in my mind tho
(a windows version is even more confusing)

BBO via their bridge movie will generate hands
and they can tediously be printed out 1 @ a time
for hand records (using the options to reset calours helps save ink)
however i see no way of printing out a summary handout

[inquiry]

ehhh, on Oct 9 2004, 08:59 PM, said:

BBO via their bridge movie will generate hands
and they can tediously be printed out 1 @ a time
for hand records (using the options to reset calours helps save ink)
however i see no way of printing out a summary handout

Open bridge movie from BridgeVu software. From the Vugraph page (and before you open any of the individual hands), press the print icon (down on the icon bar at the bottom of the window next to the RED HELP button). It will ask you if you want to export to a file... Click yes (if you click no, it will print all hands)... You can then open the saved file.. it wlll be in a file called MATCH.TXT and it will be in the bridgebaseonline directory.. and example output follows (except it lines up perfectly on the normal print out, the web here messes it up a little bit. All the hands in the movie are added to the file... and IT IS IMPORTANT you don't look at any of the hands first.. if you do, close the file and reopen.

Quote

Bd: 1
Dlr: North
Vul: None
    North
    S QT3          
    H JT32         
    D 9872         
    C A8           

  West    East
  S 86               S A72          
  H K9864            H A75          
  D AT64             D J3           
  C T7               C KJ954        

    South
    S KJ954        
    H Q            
    D KQ5          
    C Q632         


Open Room:

West North East South
mleca-e inquiry Tiger_ malucy
                               
        PASS     1C      1S    
DBL     2S     PASS    PASS   
PASS   

Trick 1:   C7 CA C5 C2
Trick 2:   C8 CK C3 CT
Trick 3:   DJ DQ DA D2
Trick 4:   D4 D7 D3 D5
Trick 5:   H2 HA HQ H9
Trick 6:   H7 S4 H4 H3
Trick 7:   CQ S6 ST C4
Trick 8:   HT H5 S5 H6
Trick 9:   C6 S8 SQ C9
Trick 10:   S3 SA S9 H8
Trick 11:   CJ SJ D6

8 Tricks Claimed +110.
Bd: 2
Dlr: East
Vul: NS
    North
    S A7           
    H QJ5          
    D Q987         
    C J872         

  West    East
  S 6                S KJ985        
  H T943             H K8762        
  D AT52             D 64           
  C A963             C T            

    South
    S QT432        
    H A            
    D KJ3          
    C KQ54         


Open Room:

West North East South
mleca-e inquiry Tiger_ malucy
                               
                PASS     1S    
PASS     1NT    PASS     2C    
PASS     2S     PASS    PASS   
PASS   

Trick 1:   H9 H5 H6 HA
Trick 2:   S2 S6 SA S5
Trick 3:   S7 SK S3 C3
Trick 4:   HK S4 H3 HJ
Trick 5:   CQ C6 C2 CT
Trick 6:   DK D2 D7 D4
Trick 7:   DJ DA D8 D6
Trick 8:   CA C7 H2 C4
Trick 9:   C9 C8 S8 CK
Trick 10:   H7 C5 H4 HQ
Trick 11:   CJ SJ

9 Tricks Claimed +140.
Bd: 3
Dlr: South
Vul: EW
    North
    S K63          
    H 4            
    D QT832        
    C A942         

  West    East
  S 9852             S AQ74         
  H 73               H KQT8         
  D 976              D A5           
  C KQ76             C JT5          

    South
    S JT           
    H AJ9652       
    D KJ4          
    C 83           


Open Room:

West North East South
mleca-e inquiry Tiger_ malucy
                               
                         1H    
PASS     1NT     DBL     2H    
PASS    PASS    PASS   

Trick 1:   S8 S3 SQ SJ
Trick 2:   CJ C3 C6 C2
Trick 3:   DA DJ D7 D2
Trick 4:   D5 DK D6 D3
Trick 5:   ST S2 S6 SA
Trick 6:   S4 D4 S5 SK
Trick 7:   DQ HK HA D9
Trick 8:   C8 CQ CA C5
Trick 9:   C4 CT H2 C7
Trick 10:   HJ H3 H4 HQ
Trick 11:   S7 H5 S9 D8
Trick 12:   H6 H7

6 Tricks Claimed -100.
Bd: 4

[1eyedjack]

hrothgar, on Oct 6 2004, 05:35 PM, said:

I'm fond on hans cvan stavern's "dealer"
very powerful freeware

I looked into that some time ago. It looks like the best there is, but I could not get it installed under Windows XP. It was about a year ago and I have not tried since, so I cannot remember the precise problems. Also I am no puter expert. If there isn't a SETUP.EXE or INSTALL.EXE program that does it all for you, I have to forget it.

[ehhh]

Thanxs hrothgar, 1eyedjack, and inquiry,

I now have an added perk to belonging to BBO
I am able to generate (randomly) 36 hand records
for specialized games at our club
it should be an easy task to reduce the hand records
which are in a txt file via a word processor
down to a 1 page handout

bob

[Dwingo]

My pea brain is not able to understand how the BBO interface can be used as a Hand generator. Can someone explain in a little more detail.

I know how to print hands that we have played, but how do we get hands that has not be played but generated by BBO?

Any help on how to use the Hans van Staveren DEALER to a person with no knowledge on DOS programming will be higly appreciated. Is there a Step by Step Guide anywhere?

Godwin

[ehhh]

well ... what i'm doing is:
in BBO
click on BRIDGE MOVIE
click on NEW
complete box (give names, 1-36, random)
save file

then I followed inquiry's guide
to get a text file of the hand set (match.txt)
open up the text file
i use word perfect
edit it to the form you like

[inquiry]

ehhh, on Oct 11 2004, 12:48 PM, said:

well ... what i'm doing is:
in BBO
click on BRIDGE MOVIE
click on NEW
complete box (give names, 1-36, random)
save file

then I followed inquiry's guide
to get a text file of the hand set (match.txt)
open up the text file
i use word perfect
edit it to the form you like

That will work... :-)

[hrothgar]

Dwingo, on Oct 11 2004, 07:02 AM, said:

My pea brain is not able to understand how the BBO interface can be used as a Hand generator. Can someone explain in a little more detail.

I know how to print hands that we have played, but how do we get hands that has not be played but generated by BBO?

Any help on how to use the Hans van Staveren DEALER to a person with no knowledge on DOS programming will be higly appreciated. Is there a Step by Step Guide anywhere?

Godwin

If you aren't comfortable with scripting, then Dealer probably isn't a very good choice for you. The real glory of Dealer lies in the scripting capabilities. As far as I know, there isn't any kind of GUI.

[Dwingo]

Thank you ehhh, Ben & hrothgar for your useful replies

Godwin

[bridge7]

ehhh, on Oct 6 2004, 11:54 AM, said:

Does anyone know of any hand dealer shareware out there that is user friendly.

Please check "Fantastic Dealer" at

Bridge7.com

Also many others

[henrik_r]

I previously used Dealer, but switched to Deal

http://thomaso.best....et/bridge/deal/

It is also scripting based and has GIB integration. in my opinion it is better than Dealer because you can reuse code by making procedures and including e.g. making a library for overcall by the opposition

Regards, Henrik