[Knurdler]

I am helping supervise beginner play at our club.
It would be nice if we could generate boards to practice simple specific topics eg Limit raises, Stayman, etc.
We have Bridge Baron 18, with "Convention practice" which can easily generate exactly the sort of hands we want.
We have Dealer 4 software which uses .pbn files and a dealing machine. I can manually change individual cards hand by hand but cannot see how to generate topic specific boards using Dealer 4.

I think what I need to know is how to get the deals exported from Bridge Baron in pbn format.

The save deals button just saves the BB deal number.
The BB Bridge Manager Demo add-on says it is not compatible with our version of Windows (it is on the same CD as the BB18 that does work).

Suggestions please?

[mycroft]

I don't know what bridge baron can export as, but the dealer can also accept .DUP (and I think .LIN, not sure).

Here is a list of dealers with constraints that I collected a year ago. If you can learn the syntax (or know any of the languages, for things like the Python or Tk dealers) it's pretty easy to build hands to meet various constraints (See here for my current project. Note that I've seriously complicated up my stuff, mostly for delivery purposes, so it will "look" complicated - but I can do that, I'm a python programmer by trade. If you look at the definitions file, you'll see how "one-liner" it can get.

I remember somebody created something with 100 or so "standard" practise parameters (specifically including "stayman auctions", "drury auctions", and the like) that would be right up your alley I think. I can't think of how I would find it now on the forums, although I know it was advertised here. If someone has a better memory than me...?