Sharpen your skills at Bridge with this fun and easy-to-use game for Windows.
Sharpen your skills at the Bridge table with this simple, fun and easy-to-use game of Contract Bridge for Windows. You play for the South and North hands (WE) while the computer plays for East and West (THEY). Uses the Standard American Bidding system with Stayman and Blackwood conventions. Change the contract if you don't like the bid. Replay the last hand to see what you could have done different. Redeal the hand. The computer takes care of all the scoring for you with an on screen view of the score sheet.
The computer partner is terrible at bidding and playing. The computer opponents are not any better than your partner. If you know how to play bridge this will only make you frustrated and not worth downloading.
The author of this game obviously is a very poor bridge player but has done some good programming in some areas outside of the playing.
The advertisement for the game claims that you can select the style of bidding but I have not found that option after downloading.
Summary
If you know how to play bridge and wish to learn to be a good player find another bridge game. If you do not know how to play at all this game could be good for you for a few weeks till you can move on to a good one.
Fun to play. Good practice. Has some flaws.
scfenter
Pros
Bidding usual reasonable, but can adjust bad contract. Play by opponents tends to be good. Several good features. Despite cons listed below, I find the game addictive and fun.
Cons
Partner bids NT with no stopper in unbid suit, or bids new suit at high level instead of supporting my suit. Game doesn't use takeout doubles or cue bids. Can't review hands at end or look at last trick. Players often let declarer win first trick in suit cheaply instead of winning trick. Partner often makes bad opening leads (as do opponents) and fails to lead my suit at NT. When correcting contract, you don't get to see partner's hand. Would be nice to have several extra features: a button to claim or concede remaining tricks; an undo button to fix accidental play of wrong card.
Summary
Fun game that should improve with later revisions.
Nice lightweight Bridge program.
crmorrish
Pros
Fast, intuitive, easy and stable.
Cons
The computer bidding can be a little odd sometimes. Also the computer's play is sometimes poor but plenty challenging enough for me.
Summary
Great value little Bridge program.
It's free,not bad.. whcih doesn't mean it's good either
FrenchManicuredGirl
Pros
It's a fast program that moves right along.
Cons
You can't replay a hand. You can't view the last trick. It doesn't recognize basic conventions very well, and it often overbids or underbids significantly. That's probably the worst issue.... bidding is often suspect.
Summary
It's ok for getting back into the whole bridge playing mode, but it really isn't helpful in any other way. You won't learn anything new from this program, nor can you go back and review your mistakes. The owner asks for a contribution to help offset costs, which I would be glad to do if the program had more sophistication.
Great for keeping in practice
amyzengrace
Pros
There's a replay feature, which means you can do it again. The hands are varied and challenging; the automatic scoring feature is nice to have especially if you're not too much up on how to score.
Cons
I didn't recognise any conventions being bid. There is no way you can view the 4 hands after the game is over to study alternative ways of playing the hand out. There's no tutorial, or advice on playing.
Summary
I love this just for the sake of keeping my brain agile. There are no bridge groups here where I live so just having the computer to play against keeps me in tune with the game... in case a bridge group springs up in the future.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on May 10, 2010<p/>Yeh, being free is probably the best feature
good free program
jtabs69
Pros
decent program to improve declarer skill. Easy to use.
Cons
Can't take back or replay card or hand.
Summary
Good FREE program that helps user improve declarer skills and would recommend to beginner and intermediate players of the game.
Great, and Free
spetersen0528
Pros
free
no installer, just an executable
no admin rights required