[petermooney]

I have searched all over and cannot find an idiots guide to using the new convention card.
I understand that it is work in progress but I would like to use it.
Currently my crib sheet is based on the BBO/ACBL Learn to Play Bridge programs. However I am getting some stick as these are quite conservative when compared with most peoples bidding.
Ideally I would like to print out the new card although I guess that it is in a very large tree format. At the moment it is like peering through a letter box!
Any help on how to use the the new Convention card would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter

[csdenmark]

petermooney, on Jan 31 2006, 01:36 AM, said:

I have searched all over and cannot find an idiots guide to using the new convention card.
I understand that it is work in progress but I would like to use it.
Currently my crib sheet is based on the BBO/ACBL Learn to Play Bridge programs. However I am getting some stick as these are quite conservative when compared with most peoples bidding.
Ideally I would like to print out the new card although I guess that it is in a very large tree format. At the moment it is like peering through a letter box!
Any help on how to use the the new Convention card would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter

'Try and error' is a perfect way to learn from. If your first shot is not perfect then you have learned more. The whole thing is very simple and logic.

Make a copy of a default card and modify that. You will quickly grab the ideas.

You can print from your editor the whole structure. I wonder why - I have had no printer connected for the last 5 years now.

[Dwingo]

csdenmark, on Jan 31 2006, 06:54 AM, said:

You can print from your editor the whole structure. I wonder why - I have had no printer connected for the last 5 years now.

I wonder from where you are printing the whole bidding tree in the Editor mode. I dont see the Print button anywhere. Unless you are printing the Notepad or Word version of the FD file

[FrancesHinden]

csdenmark, on Jan 31 2006, 02:24 AM, said:

You can print from your editor the whole structure. I wonder why - I have had no printer connected for the last 5 years now.

OK, a bit off-topic, but if you don't have a printer I assume you hand-write rude letters to the bank/building society/utility company/train company, and that you have to copy down by hand Richard Pavlicek's bi-monthly play problems to think about when away from the computer.

Those are two of the three main (non-work) reasons that I have a printer. The other is for the magazine I edit, but it's possible you don't do that.

[petermooney]

Ok so no guide trial and error. I can live with that.
Please explain to this idiot how to print the tree/info.
Confused of Newbury

[csdenmark]

Dwingo, on Jan 31 2006, 03:22 PM, said:

csdenmark, on Jan 31 2006, 06:54 AM, said:

You can print from your editor the whole structure. I wonder why - I have had no printer connected for the last 5 years now.

I wonder from where you are printing the whole bidding tree in the Editor mode. I dont see the Print button anywhere. Unless you are printing the Notepad or Word version of the FD file

I have no need printing anything. If I need to find specific features I go into there in FD or simply open FD-file using WORDPAD with and excellent search/replace function. Thats very simple.

For Frances. No I don't edit magazines and normally I don't write rude letters for anybody. Those I communicate with MUST be able to communicate electronically - computer/phone/Messenger. Else no communication possible - simple as that.

Denmark is rapidly converting into that kind of virtual society these years - and I support so very much and try to take advantage from that too of course.

[inquiry]

Well I sure wish we could print something. With the format so standardized, I think some nice and friendly computer programmers amoung us could write us a little utility to turn....

*00{Precision(Forum)}=NYYYYYYSimplified Precison a la Wei. Natural 1!d-opening.Helene-t september 2005 on the basis of BBO-Forum polls
001C=YYYYYYY508 16+HCP
001CP1D=YYYYYYY5080-7 HCP or three-suited
001CP1DP1H=NYYYYYY3481 6-21 Usually 5+ !hs
001CP1DP1HP2S=NYYYNYN601Three-suited


into

1♣ -- 16+HCP
  |
   ---1♦
        |
         -----1♥ -> 16-21 Usually 5+ ♥


Etc (of course, a clever programmer could find a better way to show this stuff in a tree format...).

[slothy]

ben, on last post, said:

Well I sure wish we could print something. With the format so standardized, I think some [nice and friendly deleted by slothy    ] computer programmers amoung us could write us a little utility to turn....

i asked about the full syntax in dis forum coz i was thinking of writing a PHP parser running behind an XML XSLT engine to parse the FD files and display a more visual representation of bidding sequences. I AM HOOKED!!

(Got the backbone sorta done but getting stuck on some forks in the tree )
Just got to finish all the other 324 things i got on the back-burner... hee hee

Slothy (FD Freak)