jmc Posted June 7, 2008 Report Share Posted June 7, 2008 I like to keep interesting hands and organize them into categories, but I am tired of having stacks of hand records around with circled hands and cramped notes. Is there a good database for storing hands? I'd like something with an easy entry method and way to save in categories. I've looked at some software thats available but haven't found anything that I love. Any suggestions from forum users? If you wanted to save a thousand hands in 3 categories and wanted be able to input them simply and efficiently, what software would you use? jmc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdmunro Posted June 7, 2008 Report Share Posted June 7, 2008 Would Dummy Dummy Solver (free) do the job you want?http://www.bridge-captain.com/downloadDD.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted June 7, 2008 Report Share Posted June 7, 2008 you will want dealmaster pro. It has a lot of other features that usually sell it, but it allows you store hands and give each one classifications you create (Flannery, slam, jacoby 2NT, exclusion blackwood, etc). Each hand can have more than one classification (I am thinking i remember something like 10 when i saw this program). Here is a link to a page taking about this feature of the program. Dealmaster pro page on "database" (aka classify) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmc Posted June 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 Thanks for the suggestion Inquiry. That looks perfect. Have you used the input method for hands? Jonathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Thanks for the suggestion Inquiry. That looks perfect. Have you used the input method for hands? Jonathan Homebase uses pre-dealt hands for its tournaments. Stephen Pickett, who owns DM Pro, deals them and we upload them to the tournament, along with deep finessee analysis. One tournament we forgot to upload the hands, so we captured the hands in a pbn file, uploaded those to DM Pro, ran the deep finessee analysis, and then outputted the results for our webpage that shows makeable contracts and all the results from the event. This went as smooth as silk, we had the results posted in something like 20 minutes. So it seems easy. I don't know if it will import lin files, but Cascades linconverter is great for changing format, there are other tools to do the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 If DM Pro doesn't do it for you, you may be able to cobble together something useful from BridgeComposer (for inputting hands and descriptions - manually or importing LIN or PBN files; and analyzing problems with GIB double dummy analysis). I've used this for annotating LIN files for partnership discussion. Fairly easy to use. Good for what it does. I like the integration with PBN, LIN files and GIB. Google Documents - You can save your BridgeComposer files in HTML format (as well as PBN) and upload them to Google Documents for sharing with others, accessing from other PCs and preserving them for eternity. GoogleDesktop - you can tell it to search a specific folder or tree on your PC (the one where you keep your bridge stuff :huh:). If you put meaningful descriptions into your BridgeComposer files, you can find them. I don't think you can index PBN files at the moment (annoying), but you can save copies of your bridge files in html format and index these. NetBridgeVu.exe - nice software for viewing LIN and PBN files. :) I like this one and Jack. I do not have any financial interest or other interest in these products. I use them because I like them. I also like DM Pro which is also very good for what it does. Have not tried it for your problem however, which I think is a very interesting problem. Amazing that so many smart people play this game and we still don't have a decent solution for this problem (that I know of). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcLight Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 >Stephen Pickett, who owns DM Pro, I may be wrong, but I believe Deal Master Pro is owned and run by Ed Marzo.At leaset Ed it the one who answers the phone and my emails. Is Steve the financial owner? I thought Steve is the owner/creator of Bridge Browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 >Stephen Pickett, who owns DM Pro, I may be wrong, but I believe Deal Master Pro is owned and run by Ed Marzo.At leaset Ed it the one who answers the phone and my emails. Is Steve the financial owner? I thought Steve is the owner/creator of Bridge Browser. Ben means I own a copy of DmPro ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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