LET’S PLAY BRIDGE
A GREAT
TEACHING COMPUTER BRIDGE GAME
Let’s Play Bridge
Click a bid made by the computer to find out
the requirements for that bid.
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This allows you to
interact with the computer in an intelligent manner.
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What greater way is there to learn how to
bid better?
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No other computer program offers this
feature.
Hot
on-screen Suggest Bid Button
to help you bid the game.
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This removes the
frustration of learning to bid while it allows you to bid and play the cards.
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You can click on the bid
you make to find out its requirements.
You
can choose standard or very complex bidding systems
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Standard American bidding
system
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Standard weak one no trump
bidding system.
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Standard defensive bidding
system
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Increase the complexity of
these bidding systems with the click of a button.
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Terry’s own pinpoint
method of bidding.
Click on-screen hot button
and the computer will bid the whole game and show all the hands. This makes it
easy to compare your bidding with that of the computer.
Help
Files Galore will allow you to learn at your own pace.
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Bidi
is a menu item at the top of the screen. It has help files on:
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Bidding terminology.
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How to judge the strength
of your hand for an opening bid.
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How to judge the strength
of your hand when responding to partner’s bid.
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Bid requirements to make game
or slam.
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Strength of hands
necessary to make bid.
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Bidding requirements for
opening bids
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Bidding requirements for
first defensive bid.
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Red Help Button on screen
tells you how to use the bid box.
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Every bid system choice has
a hot help button that will tell you what the bidding feature means. There are 50 of these information hot
buttons ready where you need them.
Bid system can be set differently for North/South
team and East/West team.
Instantly
change your position at table with a click of one hot button on screen. This allows you to bid another position
for the same game.
Change
the bidding system with one click of a hot button on screen and compare how the
hands are bid by computer when a different bidding system is being used.
Let’s Play Bridge has these great features to
increase your PLAYING SKILLS
Click on-screen hot button to replay the
hand instantly.
Click on-screen hot button to have the
computer play the cards one trick at the time. This also exposes all cards. If the computer got more tricks than
you, you can easily follow its line of play.
After first trick has been played, click
on the first defensive card played to find out why the computer played this
card. Click on the second card
played by defense to find out its response.
Many bridge experts feel this is the most
important trick of the game.
Click on any first card played to find
out why the computer played this card.
Sometimes this is helpful.
Compare your play and score with
computer: Click on Expedite Tricks and the computer instantly plays all the
cards and compares score with your play of the cards.
Duplicate bridge scores (using match
play) are kept from session to session so that you can follow how you compare
with computer play.
Click on Playi
menu item at top of screen. Here
you will find several prompts that give clues to no trump play, trump card
play, counting cards, and other helpful hints. Here you will find a discussion of long
hands, extra winners, losers, ruffing winners, long
suit winners, ready cash, eventual winners, distribution winners, direct
finesse, indirect finesse, etc.