mga010

Thanks for this hint. That is very close to my goals.

There are numerous versions of the code of the double dummy solver available. But my main goal was to replay and study hands, also for teaching, not using DDS, of course. I could not find code for that, nor a finished program that I would like. The BBO code or anything similar to that for playing and bidding is not available. Even if there was such a code, it is often much easier to write it yourself in a language you are familiar with. Plain vanilla Java is quite mighty and fast on C level with lots of internet resources. And it simply fun to do it your way. I was indeed dreaming of writing a robot to play against later. It would be a nice challenge. With a quick double dummy solver and some random analysis, it should not be too difficult to program an opponent who does not play double dummy. BBO did it that way. Extracting information from the bidding or the lead is the main difficulty here. For me, that is a slow and relaxed project after retirement. Seeing the little interest in my request, I see no reason to hurry the development. By the way, I think the main achievement of BBO is running a server. And making money with it, I should add.

Current Progress The main program can now load and save PBN hand, generate random hands, bid and play, call the double dummy solver in the net. Much more to do still. Unfortunately, I was unable to post a screenshot here (extension not allowed). If anybody likes to try, you can download the jar-file from my Google drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1D6vaOB17oQ-8RAuaq-TB5X3I3_-IF9ml&usp=drive_fs

So far, I have not found a solution. RealBridge would be nice, but you cannot use it just as a player for free teaching. BBO teaching tables cannot load games, unfortunately. And replaying by sitting down around the table is impossible. I downloaded and installed all sorts of programs too. The best solution (without the option to bid) is the online DDS. Started to write a program myself.

I have been on this page and even installed Lead Captain 4.10. But it failed to load games stored by Bridge Solver e.g. There seems to be a compatibility problem.

Yes, I have that installed. It is very good. I was not aware that it can load bridge files. I only started it to analyze games from various pages. But it cannot used to show a bidding, and it does not display cards, as far as I know. However, it looks like the best solution I could find.

I am in search for a nice replay software. It should be able to read the standard bridge formats and display the hands with proper cards in a nice way, like BBO does. I want to be able to bid and play the hand myself. But it should also be able to show the stored bidding and card play. Double Dummy Solver would be nice too. This looks like an easy task. But I was unable to find such a software. E.g., you can load a LIN file into BBO, but not play it through yourself. I think you can set a hand source. But that is all way too complicated. Why not just simply load a hand into BBO? There is an advanced option using a Dealer format, but the links are all dead and I do not know if you can specify a hand. Does anybody know such a software, able to run on Windows or Java? Otherwise, I am going to write it myself.

Hands DO repeat. I have to give up playing BBO for a while because of this. It's terrible. Last time I saw three consecutive hands before. Actually, I have to admit that sometimes repeat my mistakes too. But that is another story.