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Bridge Bidder Version 2.0
by Nathan Glasser
nathan@brokaw.lcs.mit.edu (internet)
nathan@mit-eddie.uucp (usenet)
February, 1989
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Copyright 1988, 1989 by Nathan Glasser.
You may feel free to distribute this program in its current form.
Please do not remove this copyright information.
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This program lets you practice your bidding and opening leads.
Any conventions you want to use are allowed because you're your own
partner, as well as your own opponents. The idea behind this program
is that if you're involved with a large enough number of boards, you
hopefully won't remember all the hands of a given board, and so you
can bid each of the four hands at different times. What the program
does is let you make all the bids in all the hands, one bid at a
time, choosing which board to use at any point randomly and letting
you enter the next bid in its bidding sequence.
In this way, you get to practice bidding with 3 other players whose
bidding you understand completely and a partner whom you trust
implicitly. If you find this not to be the case, then you'll probably
have discovered ways in which you need to better understand your
bidding system or in which bidding can otherwise be improved.
(By the way, randomly dealt hands tend to have more unusual
distribution than cards which are shuffled and dealt. Thus you may
find that you're pushing your knowledge of your bidding system to its
limits with some of the hands you'll get.)
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The operation of the program is as follows:
Usage: bidding [number of boards]
The number of boards to deal can be specified on the command line; the
default is 10.
The appropriate number of boards are dealt.
You are shown a single hand, and the bidding of the current board so
far (if there's been any), and you get to enter the next bid.
You continue in this fashion until the bidding is completed on every hand.
Then you are presented with the hand of the player to make the
opening lead on a board, and the bidding of the hand, and get to
enter the opening lead.
The complete hand is then presented to you for your analysis.
You continue in this fashion until all the hands have been bid and led to.
A complete log of each board is automatically written to the file
"bidding.log" after the board's completion.
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Bids are specified in the obvious way, e.g. 1s = 1 spade, 2n = 2 notrump,
p = pass, d = double, r = redouble.
Similarly, opening leads are specified in the obvious way, e.g.
2c = 2 of clubs, js = jack of spades, th or 10h = ten of hearts.
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Please send any comments or bug reports to me at one of the above e-mail
addresses.