helene_t Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 Someone suggested I took a look at wbridge5 which has won the world champship thrice, is free and runs under wine. Well the user interaction is horrible (under wine, at least) so I am not going to use it, but having played a few boards I found it hard to believe that this software is a recent world champ. Completely bizarre bidding, like opening 3NT on a balanced 5-count. Or what do you think of this bidding:2NT-p-3NT-pp-6NT-x-....... Any ideas about what is going on? Is it that it runs so slowly under wine that it has to set it level to sub-zero in order to meet some required speed? It is hard to imagine a software design that would allow an installation problem to cause it to mix up the pass card with the 6NT card or something like that, but who knows ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcphee Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 Running under wine or drinking wine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 Sounds like some indies I have played in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickRW Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 It seemed a bit weird to me when I downloaded it a while back. Jack was better behaved, not that I bothered to actually buy the full copy of that either. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Maybe you should contact the vendor, they might know of compatibility problems with WINE. It seems unlikely that it behaves like this in typical configurations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roupoil Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 I was pretty sure to have read somewhere that the freely downloadable version was not the same that the one which won the world championships, ut I can't find this info anymore... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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