Description

BriJ Release 5.01 is a majorupgrade
BriJ PRO offers all the features of BJ Bridge Lite, plus

✫ Use the BriJ Convention Wizard to tailor your bidding stylefrom:-
▶ Beginner Acol (Standard English Foundation Level for EBUstudents)
▶ Standard Acol (Standard English Level 2 for EBUstudents)
▶ Advanced Acol (with many added conventions)
▶ Beginner SAYC (Standard American Yellow Card System)
▶ Standard SAYC (with common conventions)
▶ Advanced SAYC(with many added conventions)
▶ Benji Acol
▶ Advanced Benji Acol(with many added conventions)

In all styles, you can add or remove bidding conventions to suityour system.

For example, you can optionally add these to any of the basesystems:-

▶ 5-card majors
▶ Puppet Stayman or Normal Stayman or Baron 3C over 2NT
▶ Two-suited overcalls – ELH modified Ghestem and / or ASPTRO
▶ Blackwood
▶ RKCB (Roman Key Card Blackwood) or original Blackwood
▶ Gerber (2 versions)
▶ Quantitative 4NT
▶ Jacoby 2NT strong support for partner suit
▶ Truscott 2NT strong support for partner’s doubled suit
▶ Ogust response to weak 2 opener
▶ Unassuming cue bids – strong support for partner overcall
▶ Splinters
▶ Strong jump vs weak jump overcalls
▶ Optional transfer to major and / or minor suit or weak take-outchoice
▶ Specify your preferred high card point ranges for openingthe bidding
▶ Choose strong or weak 2 openers

Here are some videos to get you started or remind you oflesser-known features.
: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPW-v81bxJQfkmwfW52oQrKYnZHR8vcnv

✫ Some more features:

▶ NEW: Play hands and check results from InternationalTournaments. BriJ comes with hands pre-loaded. You can alsodownload hands from the Internet. Compare your play with theprofessionals!

▶ Ask BriJ to find deals to illustrate a convention of yourchoice, such as Puppet Stayman, to help you in practicesessions

▶ Save any deal you play for use later, for further tuition orfor exchange with other players

▶ Enjoy unlimited random card deals

▶ Use Bluetooth to connect up with another player. Play withyour partner anywhere, without Internet access! As partners oropponents

▶ Play in any combination of seats at the same time. Choose tosee all hands or one at a time.
Rotate the table to play from another hand position. BriJauto-rotates to avoid playing as Dummy

▶ Enjoy Duplicate Bridge. See your results compared toalternative computer results, in duplicate form. Bid from afamiliar bidding box. See dummy and trick lay-out as you wouldexpect in a real Club game. You can see a running average matchpercentage.

▶ BriJ uses the same logic as real human players, withoutlooking at other players’ cards. You have a reasonable chance ofbeating the computer. Like a real player, BriJ may occasionallymake mistakes, but it’s improving all the time. Look out for laterreleases! You can ask to see BriJ’s prediction as tocontract andthe expected result to use as your target to beat.

▶ Download hands from your BridgeWebs local club website. Seeoptimum contracts, pairs scoring and replay the hands to find outwhere you went wrong! RED BOOK practice hands are also supplied,especially useful if you’re attending EBU lessons.

▶ Upload hands to the BriJ Forum http://bjbridge.co.uk/forum for exchange ordiscussion with other players

See the website http://www.bjbridge.org for details of theextensive optional features of BriJ, including information on howto get started with BriJ and its tutorial system.

If you find any problem or have queries or suggestions, pleaseemail Helen at [email protected]