Bridge Suite 2

Bridge Suite 2 App updates the previous version and improves usability

The App has three functions:

Bidding Box,

Fix Contract

Review


USAGE

Function Fix Contract replaces the score sheets used in tournemants.

Function Bidding Box replaces also the bidding box cards on the player tables.

Function Review is used to control results and bidding sequences of played hands.

The App firstly loads the hand sequence from the club PC.

At the end of each played hand the result and the bidding sequence are written into a temporary file. Its copy to the club PC can be done immediately or deferred to tournament end.

The hand sequence may be per pair number, per table number, or per board set number.


GUI

GUI is intuitive and avoids errors. Each bidding selection is clearly visible and must be confirmed.

Other choices use pull-down menus where only the possible values are proposed.

Guide messages are shown at each usage phase. They can be inhibited when the users are expert.

The main choices are set in a preference page once forever.


SECURITY

If deemed necessary the tournament manager can set a four digit access key for the APP, not known by the players.

In this way the tournament manager fully control the player the number of the hand sequence and the function to use.


THE CLOUD

The hand sequence and the scores are copied automatically from and to the club PC by the Dropbox Cloud and are store temporarely on the tablet or smartphone during the tournament. This approach avoid problems is the tablet is temporarely off line, during the tournament.

There is also the option to use the tablet internal memory to store these files. They need then to be copied from and to the PC manually, using WIFI or USB.

The score files can be copied to the PC, from Dropbox or from the internal memory either:

- at the end of each hand, or
- when exiting the App, or
- with a command in the Review function