joel1900

I would like the option to kibitz a single player. Currently, a kibitzer see all four hands whereas in face-2-face bridge they only see the hand of the person they are kibitzing and dummy. When trying to learn/understand a players thinking, with all hands displayed, its difficult to eliminated the double dummy influence. Please implement an option to dynamically mimic f2f kibitzing. Possibly you could implement a check box on the line with the players names. When selected you are "placed" behind that player and your view is limited to just their hand during the bidding and then their hand and dummy during the play. Removing the selection immediately restores the current kibitzing mode where all four hands are shown.

Currently at the end of a suit contract auction, the cards are rearranged to put the trump suit on the left end. I would like an option to disable that action. I've had instances, where we are running out of time, so I'm prepared to make my lead at the conclusion of the auction. As I'm clicking my lead, the hand is rearranged resulting in an unintentional lead. I don't need trump to be on my left. That's for dummy.

An audible alert at the 2 minute mark would warn players of the need to play quickly. This is what's done at tournaments.

When a tournament is started and an invitation is not accepted, to my knowledge there isn't a way to determine the the offending party. Please implement a means to determine who have or have not accepted. One method would be to build a list of the acceptances. Another would be to change the color of the names in the reserve seating. I like the second method. With that method, it would be useful to be able to select the offender and reissue the invitation without having to re-invite those that have already accepted.

One of the frustrations of setting up a tournament is the inability to contact all members of the tournament before its started. When there is an attempt to tournament and someone fails to accept, it not possible to inform the tournament members of the issue.

I would also like the option of automatic switch at the half of a two team game. This format is used when friends are playing. Manual reconfiguration must wait until both tables have completed play, so nothing is lost by an automatic reconfiguration. It also saves the re-invitation step.