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Contract bridge card game software. With more than 53 billion billion deals, Bridge Baron offers you the most complete, easiest-to-use bridge software. Five-card majors, SAYC, Precision, 2/1, Acol, and other bidding systems. Tournaments. Bridge Match against another person or the computer. Bidding and play hints at any time. Immediate play, and over 40 other levels of play. Blackwood, Gerber, and many other optional conventions. Choose your lead conventions and signaling agreements. Five-time World Computer Bridge Champion.
Bridge Baron includes eight programs in one: Play Bridge, Play Bridge Online, Tournaments, Bridge Match, Learn Conventions, Challenges, Deal Library, and Deal Generator.
Bridge Baron can play four different types of bridge: Duplicate, Rubber, Single Hand, or Chicago.
Each deal is represented by a deal number, and each deal number will always generate the same deal. This allows you to play a deal again or designate the deal for someone else by simply noting the deal number. Every time you run the program the initial deal number is selected randomly, and then deals are numbered consecutively. In this way, you always get a new deal each time you play.
The online feature enables you to play with or against other Bridge Baron owners anywhere in the world via Internet or modem, or by connecting computers in a local area network (LAN) or by direct serial connection. You can link up with up to three other Bridge Baron owners, so that you can, if you wish, enjoy a game with a human at each of the four positions. If there are fewer than four humans, the computer will fill out the foursome.
The Tournaments program enables you to play the actual deals played in previous bridge tournaments. You can play in any of the listed events and find out how you might have done had you been at the tournament and played in the event in question.
The Bridge Match program lets you play a complete match of up to 16 boards. Choose the scoring method to be used: International Match Points (IMPs), Board-a-Match, or Total Points.
The Conventions program allows you to practice bidding conventions on millions of different deals. Using the Conventions program, you will always be given some deals to practice on which you are supposed to use the conventions you are practicing. You can also choose to be given "near misses"; these are deals that are very similar to deals on which you are supposed to bid a convention, but that are not quite appropriate for bidding the convention.
The Challenges include 240 problem deals designed by Easley Blackwood, one of America's leading bridge personalities for many years, the inventor of the Blackwood Convention, and author of several books on bridge. These are declarer-play problems oriented to rubber bridge play, and thus as declarer, the objective is to make your contract without concern for overtricks. These deals are intended to challenge even experienced players.
The Deal Library allows you to save and edit deals in a disk file. You can use Deal Library to save a Bridge Baron deal you have just played, or you can go directly to Deal Library and enter the cards, bids and plays of a deal. After a deal is over, you can add a commentary before saving it to disk.
The Deal Generator allows you to create deals meeting specified point-count and distribution criteria, or conforming to particular bidding sequences.
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