[FrancesHinden]

My team of 4 are desperately out of practice and have a big match coming up. We are having a practice session this weekend, but to put an element of interest and competition we'd like to use some prepared hands.

I would struggle to prepare them myself without seeing too much detail.

Can anyone help me? I'd like the North/South/West/East hands for (say) 32 boards in a form I can print out, together with the scorecard from the other table (ideally, two scorecards from the other table, one NS and one EW to score up with). A couple of sets from a big tournament (Bermuda Bowl, Spingold, Vanderbilt, Europeans, Olympiad....whatever) would be perfect but anything with IMPs scoring would do - except for the most recent Bermuda Bowl final which I watched most of.

All I can offer in return is thanks and the offer to do the same for anyone else.


[Why don't we have the session online? Because the reason one of us is rusty is a recent baby so we round to go round and coo over the new arrival, congratulate the mother etc]

[whereagles]

The best declarer play hand I've seen so far is one by Zia in 1998 world bridge championships. Have a look through the bulletins and look for a hand titled "Thank you, Pietro."

If you can bring that 4♠, or whatever it was, home on your own, I'll rank you as one of the greatest declarers of all times

Edit: found it here
http://www.worldbridge.org/bulletin/98_2%2.../pdf/bul_06.pdf

[P_Marlowe]

Hi Frances,

Not 100% what you were asking for,
but hopefully the following is at least
a bit helpfull.

I have searched the net a bit.

One could try to use tools found on
Pavliceks side.
http://www.rpbridge.net/rpbr.htm#11

The batch converter found on Richard
Pavliceks side to convert PBN / LIN Files
to RBN (Richards own format),
and after that the RBN to HTML
converter to prepare for print out.

Together with the vuegraph project
http://www.sarantako...bridge/vuegraph
it should be possible to achieve, what you
are looking for.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[FrancesHinden]

Thanks for the replies here and in particular to those (cardsharp, chicken & ArcLight) who replied privately offering to help.

I now have an excellent set of hands to use, with some very distinguished team-mates to score up with!

I'll let you all know in two and a half weeks if it did and any good and we won our match.

[bid_em_up]

If you havent done so already, you can also "replay" many deals from past events on BBO.

[FrancesHinden]

Thanks for the help.
We won.