Money Bridge suggestions

[Gerben42]

Here are some comments we came up with when playing money bridge with Sceptic.

 

* Put in a delay. At all levels except the slowest for GIB (which I recommend anyway), if GIB has to play the 4th card the trick disappears for a new one at millisecond speed. Instead leave it for half a second or so please so people can actually look at it. Of course one can look back one trick, but just more easy if you could have seen it for a while.

 

* Just like in the main room, show the money result of the previous hand in brackets after your current status.

 

Edit: I see that 4.6.4. already has this. Great!

 

* Let the human player always be declarer. Not because GIB may be worse (I think this is an invalid reason - same thing as in rubber bridge), but sometimes it does not get subtle inferences from the bidding. I remember a hand where opps had a transfer sequence and I doubled 3NT because I was stacked in ♠ behind responder, but the GIB declarer didn't catch the bad ♠ distribution and I had no way to explain it to the robot of course.

 

* Partly a question: Does GIB run on my computer? If so am I at an advantage if my computer is faster than that of my opponent?

Edited March 5, 2006 by Gerben42

[uday]

Allowing human to declare is not trivial, but it is on the todo list.

 

The GIBs run on our machines, not yours.

 

Will discuss end-of-hand delay with FG. He uses picture view with animations, and all is well for him. I use the hand diagram view without animations, and have the same issue

[eyhung]

Uday --

 

I think Gerben was talking about end-of-trick delay, not end-of-hand delay. End-of-trick delay is also something I would like to see implemented (and I use pictures with very fast animations).

 

Eugene