[Chamaco]

Hi all !

I would like to convince people at my club to start playing - at least once in a while - cross-imps tourney rather than MP.

Not that I do not enjoy MP, but I just believe it is instructive for all mid-low players (I am one of them ) to experience both form of scoring.

The most obvious drawback is scoring compuations, so I wonder which CHEAP/freeware/shareware programs are out there to do X-imps.

Thanks !

Mauro

[DenisO]

Hi Mauro

You could try Keith Sheppard's program at:

http://www.bracknell...e.com/links.htm

I think you will have to use the "Buy licence" version to get X-imp. However you get a 30 day free trial before you have to part with any cash and even then I don't think it's very expensive for a club.


Denis

[inquiry]

This will not help you Mauro, but for anyone else with a similar question, you can get ACBLScore directly from the ACBL... see,,,,
http://www.acbl.org/...sDownloads.html

[Cascade]

For cheap I do cross-imps on a spreadsheet.

It is not too hard to write a cross-imp function.

Let me know if you need an example.

[Chamaco]

Cascade, on Oct 6 2004, 05:33 PM, said:

For cheap I do cross-imps on a spreadsheet.

It is not too hard to write a cross-imp function.

Let me know if you need an example.

Hi Wayne !

Using a spreadsheet would be good as long as there is not extra data enetering to do besides entering the scores.

The option I look for are:

- discarding the outliers results (worst and best score) before calculating average in order to limit the bias due to bad couples;
- automatic conversion betwen scoring and IMPS according to the number of played boards (otherwise, if score->IMPS conversion ishard to compute automatically, it would mean I have to enter IMPS for each board for each pair, and that doubles the time).

If you have any examples/suggestions, I'll be happy to hear from you !