J Lodahl

I take it, that this is not possible

hi. Is it possible to join a team match, with my partner as partner? It is possible to join a casual table I know, so maybe something similar for team matches. TIA. Jorn

this sounds like the pattern I am experiencing. Thank you very much. I will make challenges with fewer boards.

hi I have just started to play the "challenges" (home page, selected areas). I have played against a friend and against a robot. Sometimes when I am started on a challenge, I need to have a break. I then completed the ongoing game and exits. Sometimes I can return to the challenge next time I log in, sometimes it is disappeared. I also happens that I complete a challenge, my friend has not completed, and then it disappears. I am aware that a challenge times out if you do not start within a week, I guess both parties need to start. But his is not my issue here. Any help appreciated. Jorn

thanks for your replies! Rainbow parentheses are cool! I see rainbow brackets as packages for several editors. I will investigate

I am writing scripts in a simple editor e.g. notepad. Occasionally I get misbalanced parentheses, misspelled identifiers and similar minor things which most code editors will detect or prevent realtime. I know there are a bunch of free online code editors, for many languages, though most likely not for Dealer specific terms. Do you use an editor you can recommend? TIA Jorn

I guess this is part of the trick but the scoring part (4) is not included.

You dealer experts have helped me before, so even though this is only kind of dealer related I hive it a try. I know its possible to save and load hands. Is it possible to 1) find saved hands from big tournaments (multiple hands, not a single .lin file at a time) 2) load these hands 3) play them at a table on BBO 4) and get your results scored as though you where part of the tournament? Thanks in advance. Regards Jorn

Hi I enjoy bid training on BBO with my partner and uses dealer scripts to train specific situations/conventions. We would like to train negative doubles. Anyone have a script ready for this? Otherwise I will make one. Regards Jørn

I would like to conclude on the topic. I endende up with a very simple sum of hascard as indikator: Rand=hascard(east,2C)+hascard(east,3S)+hascard(east,4D)+hascard(east,5H)+hascard(east,6D)+hascard(east,7S)+hascard(west,2H)+hascard(west,3C)+hascard(west,4H)+hascard(west,5S)+hascard(west,6C)+hascard(west,7D) Rand is then binomial(12,25%) Strictly speaking the indicators are not independent, since they depend on the conditions for the hands in general but I have testet this on a simulation and absolutely no problem. Rand also have some slight correlation to the hand you are dealt, but I have never thought of that in the examples I have tried. One example where I use this is: SkipSmall=((Rand>=2) and (hcp(north)+hcp(south)<=24)) Just to giv you one specific. Thanks all for the warm welcome in the forum. Jørn

I also like the idea to use hascard as a way to have multiple 0/1 variable, (assume they are independent even though they are not) and then a function with weigthed-sum and modulo could do as a very primitive random function.

OK :-) That makes so much more sense. In the context talking about files I didn't get that. Also I was not aware of the possibility to read files with hands into BBO. So it is a possibility to generate different kinds of hands, into separate files and then "blend" hands from the files in some post-script into a new file and load the blended file into BBO?

Hi Hrothgar, no PDF. I would like to use the script for training bidding online with my partner.

Thank you for your fast replies and interest. If you think “Why would you need this” here are three examples: 1 Generate a hand fulfilling the specified criteria or – with a given probability – generate a hand which almost fulfils the criteria. I find this better training than all hands are fulfilling. 2. Generate a normal opening hand 11-21 HCP but even out the distribution so that more hands than normal are "good hands" (think part of a condition like e.g. hcp(north)>=11+r where r is random 0-10) Or just 3. Generate a NT opening hand, equally likely to be 1NT or 2NT Does this make sense? I see the point of using available functions for “pseudo-random” but don’t see how?

I recently discovered the option to program criteria for the hands generated to practice bidding with my partner. I must say, that I am excited! One thing I am missing though is a random number generator. Nothing advanced, just the possibility to generator a random integer from a discrete uniform distribution, like a number between 0 and 9, all outcomes the same probability. I have tried rand() and other C-like things without luck. Its gotta be there somehow, since the cards can be shuffled :-) Is this possible?