Extension of GIB double dummy

[1eyedjack]

As a spectator we can turn on GIB double dummy analyser during the play, and it recalculates continuously on the fly.

 

Would be be feasible and/or welcome to extend that facility to the bidding so that it assumes (until overridden) that the last bid in the auction to date is to be the final bid of the auction, and then assign the number of overtricks, undertricks or equaltricks to each card held by the person who would be on opening lead in that event? When that bid is overridden by a call other than pass, double or redouble, then it would recalculate by reference to the new opening leader.

[MickyB]

IME, the analysis tends to be pretty slow while there are still 52 cards to be played, so you would rarely see any data before the next bid is made.

[1eyedjack]

Yes I did think of that. Even so I think that it will present data more frequently than you say. I have seen some pretty slow auctions on viewgraph. Furthermore, on those occasions when there is a long pause in the bidding, it is often the case that the pause is sitting over a contract suggestion, being an occasion when a D/D analysis can be quite useful to the spectator.