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Posted 2021-May-14, 19:18

Hi,

Thanks BBO provides the website to help people do analysis.

https://www.bridgeba...aler/dealer.php

When I try to use "frequency" syntax in dealer, it will always return "Can't open temporary file".

Anyone know how to solve it?

Another url have the same dealer function but not available now.
http://dealergib1.br...aler/dealer.php


Thanks!

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produce 5
condition shape(north, any 4333 + any 4423) and hcp(north)>=13
action frequency (tricks(north,notrump),6,9)



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Posted 2021-May-15, 05:19

View Postpjack, on 2021-May-14, 19:18, said:

Hi,

Thanks BBO provides the website to help people do analysis.

https://www.bridgeba...aler/dealer.php

When I try to use "frequency" syntax in dealer, it will always return "Can't open temporary file".

Anyone know how to solve it?

Another url have the same dealer function but not available now.
http://dealergib1.br...aler/dealer.php


Thanks!


I think "frequency" works but "tricks" is not working. Possibly tricks is limited because it will use much more CPU time to calculate.
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Posted 2021-May-15, 06:13

View PostCascade, on 2021-May-15, 05:19, said:

I think "frequency" works but "tricks" is not working. Possibly tricks is limited because it will use much more CPU time to calculate.

On his website, Thomas Andrews provides instructions on how to download and install Deal

It seems quite difficult so, please would BBO allow us to download the "GIB" installation of dealer; then we would be using our own CPU time.




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Posted 2021-May-15, 15:05

I think what is going on is that the real "working" dealer url listed below is only erratically available in the last few days.

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Another url have the same dealer function but not available now.
http://dealergib1.br...aler/dealer.php


Please BBO give this some attention (and also make the working version the default, if possible).
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Posted 2021-May-16, 04:34

View Postpescetom, on 2021-May-15, 15:05, said:

I think what is going on is that the real "working" dealer url listed below is only erratically available in the last few days.Please BBO give this some attention (and also make the working version the default, if possible).


There are 2 versions:

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Posted 2021-May-16, 05:53

Just google Hans Van Stavern Dealer and you can find a standalone executable
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Posted 2021-May-16, 05:59

View Postnige1, on 2021-May-16, 04:34, said:

There are 2 versions:


Working URL.
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Posted 2021-May-16, 10:16

View Postsfi, on 2021-May-16, 05:59, said:



You provided the working URL, but of course this is for the non-working version of Dealer :(

Please BBO, re-enable the working version which is an important resource to the BBO community (lower the max number of hands generated or disable in peak hours, if this is really necessary).
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Posted 2021-May-16, 10:32

View Posthrothgar, on 2021-May-16, 05:53, said:

Just google Hans Van Stavern Dealer and you can find a standalone executable


I found this page by following the 2016 Bridgewinners discussion, but the Windows 10 exe of 20161012 does not work for me (it opens up a black screen and accepts pasted text, but nothing happens except that it closes if I give a nonsense command or 'deal').

I also found this other version: http://www.kolumbus....ta/dealerPC.zip
Oct. 12, 2016 ·which someone said "correctly invokes GIB", but it behaves the same way.

Anyone have any ideas? Maybe I just haven't understood the interface (used to the BBO 'deal' button).
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Posted 2021-May-16, 15:06

Playbridge provides a GUI that generates hands.
This link from BBO seems to be working now - it's the same place that pescetom (and I) used in a recent post. 'www.bridgebase.com/tools/dealer/dealer.php
n AKJ.AQ9.AK63.AK6 e T53.J65.QJ87.QT5 s Q987.K874.T9.J82 w 642.T32.542.9743 n A5.AK6.AKQJ.AK76 e Q84.9732.943.Q94 s KT97.J85.65.T853 w J632.QT4.T872.J2 n AQ.KQJ7.AKT4.AKQ e KT65432.A3.J7.63 s 987.962.Q32.J975 w J.T854.9865.T842 n AK8.AQ65.AKJ5.AK e J42.KJ93..QJT984 s QT965.T87.Q4.765 w 73.42.T987632.32 n KQJT.AKQ.A5.AKQ9 e A86.T52.T96.T875 s 9743.763.K42.643 w 52.J984.QJ873.J2 


But there is a separate site http://www.playbridg...ating-software. - there is a picture of the dealer selecting the cards randomly on the home page - which explains why you have to hold your breath waiting for the deal.

That allows you to download an Exe called dealer4 when you click on the image at the bottom of the page.
The files are on Jane Marsden's Google Drive.
Here is the link to the library file
and to the .exe file
I haven't tried it.

To generate (up to 64) hands for practice, the GUI at playbridge.com is fine.
Here is the link to Henk's page
He provides a 'tutorial' here
And downloads here

Random.org provides a free RNG based on 'atmospheric noise'.


For a bit of fun, I made a dealer that works in Google sheets - it works but only generates a few random hands. - I don't know how random =randarray on google is.
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Posted 2021-May-16, 19:37

View Postpescetom, on 2021-May-16, 10:32, said:

I found this page by following the 2016 Bridgewinners discussion, but the Windows 10 exe of 20161012 does not work for me (it opens up a black screen and accepts pasted text, but nothing happens except that it closes if I give a nonsense command or 'deal').

If you run it from a command prompt, type in your input, and then press Ctrl-Z and hit enter, it will work in terms of generating deals.

But the actual double dummy analysis requires you have to have a bridge.exe executable working on your computer (which is the GIB software).

An alternative to waiting to see if BBO will restore the working version (I would guess unlikely) is http://bcalc.w8.pl/ - this has a free command line double dummy solver. To run sims I normally generate deals with BBO's dealer, then pass the resulting hands to this to run locally. (Though this does mean I use a little script of my own to tally the results depending on what I'm looking for).
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Posted 2021-May-16, 20:23

I just ran your code in the link I gave above.
It produced the following:
n AJ9.T94.AK6.KQT7 e T3.A8652.Q753.A2 s KQ875.J73.J942.4 w 642.KQ.T8.J98653 
n AKT2.QT7.A987.95 e 7.KJ8543.KJ4.KQ6 s Q53.A9.63.A87432 w J9864.62.QT52.JT 
n AK.KJ4.8764.KQ72 e Q963.A963.T5.963 s JT852.875.K93.54 w 74.QT2.AQJ2.AJT8 
n K654.A75.AK9.A95 e 732.2.QT62.J7632 s A8.QJT8643.74.T8 w QJT9.K9.J853.KQ4 
n K76.65.AKT3.AQ73 e 932.AK87432.4.54 s AT8.QJ.J9762.JT6 w QJ54.T9.Q85.K982 
Generated 139 hands
Produced 5 hands
Initial random seed 1621218079
Time needed    0.001 sec

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Posted 2021-May-17, 10:27

View Postsmerriman, on 2021-May-16, 19:37, said:

If you run it from a command prompt, type in your input, and then press Ctrl-Z and hit enter, it will work in terms of generating deals.

But the actual double dummy analysis requires you have to have a bridge.exe executable working on your computer (which is the GIB software).

An alternative to waiting to see if BBO will restore the working version (I would guess unlikely) is http://bcalc.w8.pl/ - this has a free command line double dummy solver. To run sims I normally generate deals with BBO's dealer, then pass the resulting hands to this to run locally. (Though this does mean I use a little script of my own to tally the results depending on what I'm looking for).


Thanks.

Your alternative sounds like more work than I would like, at least under Windows (could be time to install Linux and dig out old skills).

The dealergib1 URL is still not available, the last time it worked for me was 14th May. About the same time (but maybe earlier?) BBO re-enabled photos, which may be what prompted somebody to turn off "inessential" functions. Or maybe some new user exaggerated a bit (not many of us use this and my own CPU usage is trivial).

I think for now I will see if BBO reply here, and if not start a thread with a more meaningful title.
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Posted 2021-May-18, 02:12

We're checking.

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Posted 2021-May-18, 02:41

View Postpescetom, on 2021-May-16, 10:16, said:

You provided the working URL, but of course this is for the non-working version of Dealer :(

I thought that might have been clear. However, this version does work well for many purposes so providing the correct link seems valuable.
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Posted 2021-May-18, 03:09

View Postdiana_eva, on 2021-May-18, 02:12, said:

We're checking.

Thanks :)
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Posted 2021-May-18, 14:26

This is the official dealer link: https://www.bridgeba...aler/dealer.php

We had a small server for this other, non-official link: https://dealergib1.b...aler/dealer.php

That machine was taken down while doing some recent cleanup and upgrades to our servers. Sorry, we'll consider making another URL at some point.

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Posted 2021-May-18, 14:57

Thanks for that.
It is the same link that I provided above: "This link from BBO seems to be working now - it's the same place that pescetom (and I) used in a recent post. 'www.bridgebase.com/tools/dealer/dealer.php"
Unfortunately, the documentation associated with it is a little sparse.
When I ran the (very useful) code that pescetom provided, it worked fine, but I could not find the details about his instructions in the help file.
Is it possible to provide a more detailed list of possible (or a complete list, even better) functions?
Also, is it possible to generate a list of hands and then provide a list of makeable contracts from the DDE?
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Posted 2021-May-19, 02:43

View Postdiana_eva, on 2021-May-18, 14:26, said:

This is the official dealer link: https://www.bridgeba...aler/dealer.php

We had a small server for this other, non-official link: https://dealergib1.b...aler/dealer.php

That machine was taken down while doing some recent cleanup and upgrades to our servers. Sorry, we'll consider making another URL at some point.

Maybe it would be possible to substitute the current official version with the non-official version, if it does everything the official version does as well as invoking GIB.
Anyway, thanks for any solution when you can.
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Posted 2021-May-19, 04:49

View Postdiana_eva, on 2021-May-18, 14:26, said:

This is the official dealer link: https://www.bridgeba...er/dealer.phpWe had a small server for this other, non-official link: https://dealergib1.b.../dealer.php That machine was taken down while doing some recent cleanup and upgrades to our servers. Sorry, we'll consider making another URL at some point.
A typical "upgrade"

View Postpescetom, on 2021-May-19, 02:43, said:

Maybe it would be possible to substitute the current official version with the non-official version, if it does everything the official version does as well as invoking GIB. Anyway, thanks for any solution when you can.
PesceTom's suggeston makes obvious sense.
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