Hi all !
I would like to convince people at my club to start playing - at least once in a while - cross-imps tourney rather than MP.
Not that I do not enjoy MP, but I just believe it is instructive for all mid-low players (I am one of them ) to experience both form of scoring.
The most obvious drawback is scoring compuations, so I wonder which CHEAP/freeware/shareware programs are out there to do X-imps.
Thanks !
Mauro
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Cheap software for calculating X-imp pairs ? Freeware/shareware or simply cheap
#1
Posted 2004-October-05, 04:14
"Bridge is like dance: technique's important but what really matters is not to step on partner's feet !"
#2
Posted 2004-October-06, 10:21
Hi Mauro
You could try Keith Sheppard's program at:
http://www.bracknell...e.com/links.htm
I think you will have to use the "Buy licence" version to get X-imp. However you get a 30 day free trial before you have to part with any cash and even then I don't think it's very expensive for a club.
Denis
You could try Keith Sheppard's program at:
http://www.bracknell...e.com/links.htm
I think you will have to use the "Buy licence" version to get X-imp. However you get a 30 day free trial before you have to part with any cash and even then I don't think it's very expensive for a club.
Denis
#3
Posted 2004-October-06, 10:48
This will not help you Mauro, but for anyone else with a similar question, you can get ACBLScore directly from the ACBL... see,,,,
http://www.acbl.org/...sDownloads.html
http://www.acbl.org/...sDownloads.html
--Ben--
#4
Posted 2004-October-06, 11:33
For cheap I do cross-imps on a spreadsheet.
It is not too hard to write a cross-imp function.
Let me know if you need an example.
It is not too hard to write a cross-imp function.
Let me know if you need an example.
Wayne Burrows
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I believe that the USA currently hold only the World Championship For People Who Still Bid Like Your Auntie Gladys - dburn
dunno how to play 4 card majors - JLOGIC
True but I know Standard American and what better reason could I have for playing Precision? - Hideous Hog
Bidding is an estimation of probabilities SJ Simon
#5
Posted 2004-October-07, 03:37
Cascade, on Oct 6 2004, 05:33 PM, said:
For cheap I do cross-imps on a spreadsheet.
It is not too hard to write a cross-imp function.
Let me know if you need an example.
It is not too hard to write a cross-imp function.
Let me know if you need an example.
Hi Wayne !
Using a spreadsheet would be good as long as there is not extra data enetering to do besides entering the scores.
The option I look for are:
- discarding the outliers results (worst and best score) before calculating average in order to limit the bias due to bad couples;
- automatic conversion betwen scoring and IMPS according to the number of played boards (otherwise, if score->IMPS conversion ishard to compute automatically, it would mean I have to enter IMPS for each board for each pair, and that doubles the time).
If you have any examples/suggestions, I'll be happy to hear from you !
"Bridge is like dance: technique's important but what really matters is not to step on partner's feet !"
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