Hand Records

[ArcLight]

I propose a new hand record format in Tabular form

 

 

It can take a while to see how a hand was played, and how it was played differently at another table. You have to step through all the individual card plays (52 clicks)

 

I would find it very useful when studying a hand if I could see in tabular format (on one page) how a hand was played, rather than having to step carc by card through the replay.

 

Example:

 

(for simplicity assume each player has just 3 cards, rather than 13 - to save me typing)

 

N: A Q 2 Spades

E: K J T Spades

S: 5 4 3 Spades

W: 8 7 6 Spades (the 9 has been discarded earlier)

 

North is on lead-

 

Id like to see something like:

 

W N E S

1>

...

11> 6 2 T* 3

12> 7 Q* J 4

13> 8 A* K 5

 

Both Yahoo (Spades) and www.e-spades.com have a similar feature.

I can quickly look at a hand and see that on trick 5 West won, and started Clubs.

This saves a lot of time pressing "Next" and "Prev"

[inquiry]

For team games. Open lin file. From the Vugraph page (before you do anything else), press the "print" icon. This will save the file in Text format in your C:/bridge base online directory as a file entitled Match.txt. This file will have the play in the table format you ask for both tables.

 

Alternatively, you can use lin-converter and output text with card play I think. You have to pick the hands of interest.

[ArcLight]

I will try this later, thanks.

 

But its still not quite what I had in mind. It still requires a bit of effort.

 

What I would like to see is a page displayed exactly as I've described, without having to do any extra saving, renaming the saved file, opening with anotehr app, etc.

 

If I want to look at 16-24 hands, its a bit of a hassle to do what you say for each one.

 

The feature in e-spades made extremely valuable to me when reviewing my Spades games. (The lack of this feature makes the MSN Spades site of little use to me.)

[pigpenz]

i think you have the same thing in bridgebrowser

[inquiry]

Well, pigpenz is correct.Bridgebrowser willl do this and much, much more. Alas, Bridgebrowser iis far from free (but well worth the money for any serioius student of the game who wants to review past hands, and the like. Goggle bridgebrowser and micropedia to find the homepage. Or ask Stephen Pickett (sfbp) on BBO about it.