BJ Bridge Beginner

March 27, 2021

Bug fixes

March 24, 2021

Updated to run on iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, with support for new Apple devices, including iPhone SE 2nd generation and latest iPads. New option to show your cards with suits re-aligned to Dummy. You may turn this off in ‘Bidding and Playing options’. Refined bidding when choosing between a suit and NT contract. Improvements to suit length and strength inferences during bidding. New set of deals designed for TOTAL BEGINNERS, kindly supplied by bridge teacher Jack Stocken, www.yorkshirebridge.co.uk. Improvements when connecting with another player, after choosing to defend against your partner’s contract. Cosmetic changes: increased font sizes for Help Tab links. Also from Help Tab, a “Review BriJ” link. Smoother display for STOP and ALERT cards. Better explanatory text within bidding hints. Pause introduced before scores are shown. if you choose to “See” all cards face up, tricks are shown more clearly. Other bug fixes and improved stability.

March 10, 2020

BriJ now supports the optional use of Dark Mode as introduced in the latest versions of iOS and iPadOS. There are also several cosmetic changes to improve appearance in, for example, the icon bar, bidding box and options screens. The card table is enlarged to suit tall iPhones. Fixes: removes spurious underlines on scoresheet; eliminates a problem with unresponsive BridgeWebs “download as pbn” (for iPad in landscape mode). avoids freezes when relaunching BriJ from a background state

February 21, 2020

BriJ now works more consistently with the most recently released iPhones and iPads as well as the latest iOS and iPadOS 13.3 operating systems. For example, the ‘options’ screens are easier to use and the BriJ screens make better use of the available space on the latest iPhones. Some other minor improvements.

April 8, 2019

. BriJ now offers the Claim button on the Host iPad or iPhone, when playing in defence as well as when playing as Declarer . The EBU Green Book deals and EBU Fast Track deals are now available, as well as the EBU Red Book deals . There are more club sessions for those who like to compare their play to 'real' players. A further 1000 deals available in -CLUB-SESSION-SAMPLES2 . The target number of tricks (shown in results for player BriJ1) is now always achievable by following the robot play suggestions . Splinter bids are now observed after partner has responded to an opening bid with a suit bid and the opener is rebidding . Discard suit choices are improved, keeping guards as well as potential winning cards . A scoring discrepancy when playing on a rotated table is now resolved. Particularly important for CLUB-SESSION-SAMPLES play . Fixes and stability improvements . Many other cosmetic improvements, resulting from your suggestions. Thank you for these

November 14, 2018

* Support for split screen mode * Improved bidding after non-Benji strong 2 bids * Better inferences after response to partner's double * Two over one bidding system improvements (Pro only) * Cosmetic improvements

October 25, 2018

* Option to suppress opposition bids. This may be helpful during your early bridge lessons. Find in 'options' > 'Which hands to bid'' * Option for Hint Panel to be closed after one hint. Find in 'options' > 'Hinting Features' * Other fixes / improvements: - Prevent Unassuming Cue Bid (UCB) over a 2-level opening (applies to PRO only). - Avoid crash after 3NT response to a 1-suit opener (PRO only) - Correction to pbn file when saving hands from a rotated table - Smoother bidding 'one-hand-at-a-time', particularly with suppressed opposition bidding - Fix for Splinter bidding (Pro only) - Opening bid for 4441 hand now conforms to Acol method without 5-card majors

October 4, 2018

* 'Tournament mode': when playing hands from -CLUB-SESSION-SAMPLES or from downloads from your club, get an overall percentage from a complete club session of 24 - 36 boards * Additional preset for downloading deals from websites: “The Common Game “ * Alternative choice added for Roman Key Card Blackwood : RKCB 0314 in addition to RKCB 1430 (Pro only) * If all players pass out on the bidding, playing the hand is no longer offered * iPhone X, XS XS(max) and XR supported * BriJ version and release number now shown in the HELP panel * When saving a deal file, you can create a new folder; when deleting deal files from a folder, the folder is removed when there are no more files * GDPR General Data Protection Regulation implemented for EEA customers: 
BriJ will ask you for consent to show advertisements the first time you load it.
Screens will show you the options and how to change your choice later * Bidding improvements and fixes include : proper inferences for response to strong 1NT; Ogust inferences after 3C, 3D, 3H, 3S, 3NT responses to 2NT Bid; Jacoby 2NT now shows strong suit with 3NT (previously 3H); Negative (double has a major overhaul; fixed some 2/1 bid inferences for strength and suit length and to recognise certain conventional bids, previously missed in the 2/1 setting; Splinter bid is now inferred even if opposition have doubled, but not if they have overcalled; Splinter double jump corrected to include 1C -> 3D and 1D. -> 3H; rebid after a previous double, now infers 5 cards and 15+ points * A few play fixes/improvements * Grand slam bonus fixed: was previously 750 instead of 1000

January 31, 2018

* iPhone X now supported * Avoid using STOP cards by setting a new option (a new ACBL requirement) * Show high card points for each visible hand besetting a new option * Tap the table to put away tricks at the end of a round * For club sessions, BriJ now returns to the board rotation you set most recently * Improved stability, particularly for Bluetooth play * Scoring for club sessions: BriJ now clears results before start of new game; scores are corrected for a club session with a rotated table * Better response to a takeout double * Improved inferences from others’ bids

October 16, 2017

* Better Declarer-Dummy cooperation in 2nd seat * Rule-of-20 used to avoid opening light with a weak, unsuitable hand * Slam try bids are extended to more unusual cases * Improved hint explanations * Manual dealing: now saves the dealer immediately so that the hands can be played without reloading * Manual dealing: the save deal dialog now shows the type of file PBN or LIN being saved, so you don’t have to enter the extension explicitly. Also the target folder CLUB (pbn) or TOURNAMENT (lin) is selected with a suitably constructed filename, by default
 * Fix BBO single-board downloads. Now constructs the 4th hand properly when the .LIN file only shows 3 hands * Version 2.3 uses the latest iOS 11 development system * Other minor bug fixes