two questions about Partnership Bidding

[dbabcock46]

Pard and I want to try the Partnership Bidding feature for the first time, and a couple of dry runs bring up some things I can't work out yet:

 

1. Pard and I are N/S, and robots are E/W. Deals are constrained. How do we allow the robots to be the "dealer" when it is appropriate? The dealer choices are N/S, E, or W, but these are radio buttons rather than checkboxes.

 

2. How do we save deals from a PB session into Bridge Movie? I did what seemed logical from the docs I could find but I got an empty LIN. Do I have to click "Add" or "Send" each time?

 

Pointers to a FAQ or whatever, rather than detailed answers, definitely welcome. TIA.

 

David

[matmat]

1. Pard and I are N/S, and robots are E/W. Deals are constrained. How do we allow the robots to be the "dealer" when it is appropriate? The dealer choices are N/S, E, or W, but these are radio buttons rather than checkboxes.

 

2. How do we save deals from a PB session into Bridge Movie? I did what seemed logical from the docs I could find but I got an empty LIN. Do I have to click "Add" or "Send" each time?

1. I believe that if you click "swicheroo" and don't select a dealer in the setup dialog window, the dealer will rotate around the table. (or maybe just don't select dealer, it's been a while since i've tried).

 

2. I *believe* in the windows version of BBO you can log all deals while playing (under Options --> At Table). When you do that, even the partnership bidding files will be automatically saved to your hard drive. The directory will be the

Bridge Base Online\hands\<your username> subdirectory of your BBO install

[dbabcock46]

Everything is fine. By not choosing a dealer, the deal rotates properly; and it turns out that there is no need to do anything to save the session as a Bridge Movie: that function is automatic (if silent).