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- N/S conventions: This menu item allows you to modify the
conventions played by the North/South partnership.
- E/W conventions: This menu item allows you to modify the
conventions played by the East/West partnership.
- Autoplay forced cards: If this item is checked, GIB will
play for you when you only have one legal card.
- Pause after tricks: If this item is checked, GIB will wait
after each trick is complete until you hit a key or click on the
mouse. If it's not checked, the trick will disappear after a few
seconds.
- Bell: Beep when it's your turn to bid or play.
- Scoring: This allows you to select among rubber bridge,
Chicago, IMPs, or matchpoints. For the first two options, a
scoresheet will be displayed. The second two options do not display a
scoresheet, but are used to determine GIB's style of bidding and play.
- Players: This menu item allows you to determine which of
the North, East, South and West positions are occupied by humans, and
which are played by GIB. The default is for GIB to play all of the
positions except South.
- Dealer: You can fix the dealer at one of the four players,
or allow it to rotate normally.
- Thinking time: This control is used to control the amount
of time GIB thinks on each deal. The control itself is a small slider
that runs from 10 seconds up to 360 seconds, giving the approximate
amount of time that each GIB player will spend thinking on each deal.
Humans spend about 120 seconds/deal, and GIB's default setting is 60
seconds/deal.
- Custom deal types: This menu item brings up the screen that
allows you to specify the type of deal you want GIB to produce.
- Language: This allows you to select among a variety of languages
supported by GIB. After changing language, GIB will exit and you'll
need to restart it; it will restart in the language you've chosen.
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