Sharing Files and Write-Ups

[Echognome]

I am planning on running a weekly tournament for the University Bridge Club at the university where I work. I believe it will be helpful for the students if they have a write-up discussion of the hands that they can look at afterwards. I also think it will be interesting for them in learning the game. It would be the equivalent of a simultaneous pairs here in the UK (and presumably elsewhere).

 

In order to reduce my work on this project, I am wondering if any of you out there have some files from past events with write-ups that you are willing to share for educational purposes. I am not charging anyone for these tournaments and I'm hoping you will agree that any effort to develop the game especially for younger players is worthwhile.

 

I will be happy to share any files and write-ups I have or attain (and receive permission to distribute) as well. The most useful sets for me would contain a set of boards in a format that I can convert to .lin (using Richard Pavlicek's handy utility) and an electronic write-up preferably in Microsoft word, pdf, or html. Something I can send to the students afterwards.

 

The most preferable would be write-ups based on Acol, but others might be helpful as well and ideally someone might want to set up a database of these (which is beyond my desired input on this idea).

 

I might extend some of these tourneys more generally for the juniors here. However, I don't want people to think that I'm infringing on their ability to teach bridge for a living.

 

Any thoughts on this? Anyone out there able to help?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Matt

[pigpenz]

I would get a copy of DealMaster Pro. You can make hands and edit in comments and also make random hands and it used DeepFinesse to analyze contracts on each deal.

[kfgauss]

The old instant matchpoint games posted on Richard Pavlicek's website may be the sort of think you're looking for. He has them in .rbn format, but his file converter will convert these to .lin I believe.

 

Andy

[Echognome]

Thanks Andy. That might be a good start.

 

Pigpenz - Dealmaster Pro is fine and I'm sure analysis in DeepFinesse would be a useful tool, but I'm more looking for the kind of write-ups like Richard Pavlicek provided.

 

Any other sources people know about?

 

Thanks.

[fred]

Try the Movie window within BBO itself. This window contains a simple editor for entering deals, bidding, play, and annotations. You can save the files you create as .lin files and then send them to your friends as e-mail attachments (or whatever).

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com