BJ Bridge Beginner (2022)

BJ Bridge Beginner is a contract bridge card game with unique duplicate bridge competitive scoring features. It offers a choice of Benji Acol, Level 1 Acol as taught by the EBU and Standard American Beginner systems of bidding.

Have you played bridge for some time and want to brush up on the latest conventions? Or just want to practice your game between visits to your bridge club?

BriJ is for you. It has levels to suit both beginners and those who already play bridge. There's plenty of help at every stage, suggesting WHY as well as WHAT to bid or play.

The PRO version expands on the bidding systems that this version contains by offering a very wide range of optional add-on bidding conventions and other variations to the standard systems.

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• use the

to tailor your bidding style from:-

★ SAYC (Standard American Yellow Card) - 3 levels

★ Beginner (simplified Acol or SAYC bidding with no extra conventions)

★ Acol (standard English) - 3 levels

★ Benji Acol - 2 levels

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, e.g. 5-card majors, Puppet Stayman, two-suited overcalls (ASPTRO and ELH), RKCB, Blackwood, Gerber, Quantitative 4NT, Jacoby 2NT, Truscott 2NT, etc. Set bidding aggression level

• specify high card point ranges

• choose strong or weak 2 openers

• view your tailored convention card

•

such as Puppet Stayman

• ad-free

Bid and then play

▶ see competitive duplicate bridge scores

▶ see detailed hints for your next bid or play

▶ see explanations for opponents bids and plays

Use

to connect up with other players

▶ practice bidding and playing as a partnership

▶ choose to play in defence or play the contract independently

▶ play anywhere, without Internet access!

Play in any combination of seats at the same time

▶ choose to see all cards

▶ choose to see hands one at a time

▶ rotate the table to play an another hand

Play as you would in a 'real' game

▶ familiar bidding box

▶ tricks laid out as you would expect for Duplicate bridge

▶ see your

, rated as a percentage

from BridgeWebs and other sites

▶ download a session from your club website

▶ see optimum contracts with actual pairs scoring

▶ replay hands against BriJ opposition

practice hands (for UK)

BriJ uses the same logic as real human players

▶ it does not cheat by peeking at the hidden cards !

▶ you have a reasonable chance of beating your computer opponents

▶ like a real player, BriJ may make mistakes, but is improving all the time

BriJ

are totally

▶ ask BriJ to predict makeable contracts

▶ see predictions before bidding, or only after you have played the contract

▶ save a deal for replaying later

▶ share deals with other BriJ players via email

Bridge

▶ BriJ Lite uses simplified bidding

▶ BriJ Pro has a wide choice of styles and optional conventions

See the website http://www.bjbridge.org for details of the

. Includes "How to get started with BriJ".

bjsoftware42@gmail.com if you'd like to suggest improvements.