[stoutie]

I’m working on my declarer play. I’d like to save hands that I played poorly to a file for further analysis. Curious if someone out there knows how to do this efficiently. Thanks.

[pescetom]

There are several ways to do this, not all of which require saving the hand to a file. Here are some.

You can open the hand withing History after login to BBO. Now if you click on the little hamburger menu at top right, you get choices including 'Show Double Dummy' and 'Export'. If you just want to see where you misplayed, it may be sufficiently revealing to enable 'Show Double Dummy' and 'Advance card by card'. Now you can see (with good eyesight) how many overtricks (green)/undertricks (purple) the Declarer is going to make for each card that could be played.

If you want to do better than this (or if it is too small to read) then use the Chrome/Firefox plugin 'Bridge Solver' to open the hand in a new window. Now you get a more intuitive view with number of tricks per card and also a side table of possible tricks for each denomination, plus the possibility to play it through for any possible contract. You can also save to the standard .pbn file format.

If you want to do much the same but with BBO look and feel, then start with 'Export' 'Handviewer Link' then right-click the tinyurl to open the hand full size in a new browser window. Now the confusingly named 'GIB' button will Show Double Dummy and you can play it out (but only for the actual contract).

After 'Export' you can also 'Save deal as' into a folder of BBO in the proprietary .lin format. I wouldn't bother with this unless you are already familiar with this rather buggy part of BBO or you want to use the BBO teaching platform or some legacy tool that reads the BBO style of .lin.

[cencio]

stoutie, on 2022-January-02, 09:02, said:

I’m working on my declarer play. I’d like to save hands that I played poorly to a file for further analysis. Curious if someone out there knows how to do this efficiently. Thanks.

Download the hands with double dummy solver

[aawk]

To improve your play it's better (and easier) to read books about it than trying to teach yourself.

[pescetom]

aawk, on 2022-January-03, 22:07, said:

To improve your play it's better (and easier) to read books about it than trying to teach yourself.

I suspect that the two approaches together work better than either in isolation. So long as you realise that identifying a play that cost is not necessarily understanding what you did wrong.

[Hypnotist]

pescetom, on 2022-January-02, 11:48, said:

After 'Export' you can also 'Save deal as' into a folder of BBO in the proprietary .lin format. I wouldn't bother with this unless you are already familiar with this rather buggy part of BBO or you want to use the BBO teaching platform or some legacy tool that reads the BBO style of .lin.

I use the .lin format a lot. Load the .lin file into this website, and you get excellent analysis.

Martin S Taylor (Hypnotist)

https://mirgo2.co.uk...lver/upload.htm

[pescetom]

Hypnotist, on 2022-January-04, 07:48, said:

I use the .lin format a lot. Load the .lin file into this website, and you get excellent analysis.

https://mirgo2.co.uk...lver/upload.htm

That website is the Bridgesolver I mentioned. You can load the hand into it without ever saving to a file, at least using Chrome, once you have installed the Bridgesolver plugin all you need to do is click on the Bridgesolver icon when a hand is visible.

[stoutie]

pescetom, on 2022-January-04, 07:59, said:

That website is the Bridgesolver I mentioned. You can load the hand into it without ever saving to a file, at least using Chrome, once you have installed the Bridgesolver plugin all you need to do is click on the Bridgesolver icon when a hand is visible.

Thanks. New to this forum section. Appreciate the reply. 😊 will try it out.