Bridge Champ

New features • Minibridge and bidding practice: you can now create minibridge and bidding practice tables from the app, see the players’ names when you create or are invited to a table, and see bidding practice results. The Trick Taker and Blind Count minibridge variants are now available to everyone, and hosts of casual minibridge tables can remove players. • Replay with bots: replay a board with bots from its results, choosing your seat and where to start. • ACBL-sanctioned tournaments: play-with-bots tournaments can now be sanctioned by the ACBL and award ACBL masterpoints. • Dates and times in your format: the app now shows dates and times in your phone’s regional format, in your language, and follows the date and time format settings. • Quiz folders: club teachers can organize their quizzes into folders, and students now find finished quizzes in their own Closed tab. • When you play with three bots, singletons and your last card are now played automatically; you can turn this off in the settings. • A new optional setting lets you play a card with two taps — the first selects the card, the second plays it — to avoid accidental plays. • The claim dialog now preselects all the remaining tricks, so claiming the rest takes a single tap. • Tap a player’s name or picture in a private chat to see their profile, then follow, message or challenge them. • Clubs on a player’s profile can now be opened or asked to join, the club owner’s profile is a tap away, and club timelines show how many new posts you haven’t read yet. Improvements • The app now reconnects on its own after a brief loss of connection instead of returning to the login page, and tells you when you are playing on another device. • On a slow connection the app no longer seems frozen on its start screen, and it offers to retry when the server cannot be reached. • In minibridge, when your bot partner is declarer, you now choose the contract and play the hand for them. • After you finish your boards in a tournament, its results now open as soon as you leave the table. • Club members are now notified in the app and on their phone when a new quiz opens in their club. • Tapping a “results are ready” notification now opens the results, even when the app was closed or you had to sign in first. • The tournament filters now list and sort the same tournaments as the website. • The Followers, Following and Friends tabs now all fit on screen without scrolling. • Codes we email you can now be pasted into the profile screens in one go, and the code popup no longer closes when you tap its text. • Repeated wrong passwords now make the login wait a little longer before each new try, to protect accounts from password guessing. Fixes • Fixed iPhone players no longer hearing, or being heard by, the others at a video table once the game sounds started playing. • Fixed video and audio stopping for a player taking over a bot partner’s declarer hand. • Fixed a rare empty “Error” message that could stay on screen.