Play, Learn & Compete with the Best...
with our latest addition, Bridge Baron 16. Bridge Baron is a five-time
winner of the world computer bridge championship & the only program
top-ranked by the ACBL

- All 53 octillion (that's 53 billion billion billion) bridge deals as
possible random deals in Bridge Baron
- 9 new bidding conventions, including Walsh, Robinson, various Notrump
Runouts, and Inverted Bergen Raises
- 4 new Bridge Tournaments, including the 2005 Cavendish at cross-IMPs
- 24 new Bridge Challenges have been added, totaling 192 problem deals in
all
- Improved bidding and play
- New options for leads/signals/discards, including odd/even, Lavinthal,
Smith Echo, Journalist, and 0-or-2-higher
- Now choose to play just notrump deals
- Double-dummy and par-contract solvers
- Network play, including LAN, Serial Cable Connection, Modem and Internet,
is available for Windows 95/98/2000/Me/XP.
- Ability to change the opening 1NT range and the opening 2NT range.
- Several deal settings to choose from, including random hands, part score
hands, game hands, slam hands, user entered deals and user generated
deals created with the Deal Generator. Ability to set the best hand and
dealer.
- Ability to specify which hands will be played by a human and which hands
will be played by the computer.
- Game types include:
* Rubber
* Duplicate
* Chicago (Party Bridge)
* Single Deals
- Seven bidding systems:
* Standard American Five-Card Majors
* Two-over-One Game Force
* Acol
* La Majeure Cinquime
* Precision
* SAYC
* Forum D
- Gerber and Blackwood are automatically programmed into Bridge Baron.
Over 70 optional bidding conventions include:
* 1NT-2S Minor Sign-Off
* 2C-2H Double Negative
* 4-Suited Transfers after 1NT
* Astro
* Benjamin 2-Bids
* Bergen Raises
* Brozel
* Cappelletti
* Checkback Stayman
* Control Asking Bids
* Control Responses to 2C Openers
* Control-Showing Cuebids
* D.O.N.T.
* DOPI
* Drury
* Eastern Cue-Bids
* Extended Stayman
* Flannery
* Forcing 1NT over 1H/1S
* Gambling NT
* Ghestem
* Grand Slam Force
* Hello over 1NT
* Inverted Minor Raises
* Invisible Cuebids
* Jacoby Transfers
* Landy
* Lebensohl After Double of Weak Two-Bid
* Lebensohl After Overcall of 1NT
* Limit Major Raises
* Limit-Plus Cue-Bids
* Long/Help-Suit Game Tries
* Mathe Asking Bids
* Maximal Overcall Doubles
* Michaels Cue Bid
* Mini-Multi
* Minor-Suit Stayman
* Multi 2D
* Multi-Roman
* Negative Double
* New Minor Forcing
* Ogust
* Precision Two over One
* Precision Conventions:
o Impossible Negative 2NT
o Transfer Stayman
o Unusual Positive Responses to Precision 1C
o Gamma Trump Asks
o Epsilon Control Asks
o Baron
* Preemptive Reraises
* Puppet Stayman
* RKC 1430
* Responsive Doubles
* Reverse Drury
* Roman Keycard Blackwood
* Sandwich 1NT
* Semi-Forcing 1NT
* Short Club
* Short-Suit Game Tries
* Smolen
* Specific King Asks
* Splinter Bids
* Step Responses to 2C Openers
* Support Doubles
* Stayman
* Texas
* Truscott 2NT
* Unusual Notrump
* Unusual over Unusual
* Voluntary Bid of 5 in a Major Suit
* Weak 2-Bid
* Weak Jump Overcall
* Weak Jump-Shift Responses
* Western Cue-Bids
- Options during the bidding include the ability to obtain:
* An evaluation of your hand from the standpoint of points, quick tricks,
and playing tricks, with an explanation of how the points are counted.
* A screen showing what is known about each hand on the basis of the
auction up to that point.
* Bidding flowcharts that map out the process Bridge Baron uses to
decide on its bid.
- Compete in bridge tournaments and receive scores based on the actual
tournament results:
* ACBL Baltimore Regional 1995
* ACBL San Diego Summer 1994 Nationals
* ACBL Albuquerque Summer 1997 Nationals
* ACBL St. Louis Fall 1997 Nationals
* ACBL Reno Spring 1998 Nationals
* ACBL Indianapolis Fall 1991 Nationals
* ACBL Kansas City Spring 1993 Nationals
* ACBL Boston Summer 1990 Nationals
* ACBL Washington, DC Summer 1993 Nationals
* ACBL Toronto Summer 1986 Nationals
* ACBL Atlanta Fall 1986 Nationals
* ACBL Lancaster Fall 1972 Nationals
* ACBL San Antonio Fall 1974 Nationals
* ACBL Atlanta Fall 1977 Nationals
* ACBL Washington, D.C. Summer 1984 Nationals
- Play complete bridge matches of up to 16 boards each, with either IMP's,
Board-a-Match or Total Points scoring methods.
- Practice bidding conventions on millions of different deals, including
"near misses".
- Test your declarer play with 168 challenging deals designed by Easley
Blackwood.
- The Deal Library allows players to create, save and edit deals in a disk
file, and can be used to read other PBN (Portable Bridge Notation) files.
- The Deal Generator allows players to create deals meeting specified
point-count and distribution criteria, and can be used to create deals
confroming to particular bidding sequences.
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