Bridge for Pleasure
Latest Updates

 

LATEST NEWSLETTER

2025 03 29 Bridge News March 2025.pdf

 

Release 2.19r
Recent Updates
Club Statistics
18th May 2025 12:49 BST
Teaching Scheme Updates
14th May 2025 15:21 BST
Bridge 3 Taking Acol Further
14th May 2025 15:21 BST
Home Page
10th May 2025 16:26 BST
BFP B3 L02 FOLLOWUP Playing Suit Contracts.docx
26th Apr 2025 18:29 BST
BFP B3 L02 FOLLOWUP Playing Suit Contractss.docx
26th Apr 2025 18:00 BST
0 0 0 0 0 0
Pages viewed in 2025
Computers and the Internet
 
 
  Information Technology

You can run a duplicate bridge club using pen and paper to score and publish results. Computers are not compulsory!

However, there are many tasks that are much easier, and the players can enjoy their bridge even more using the amazing potential of club computers or the internet.

The technology does need certain knowledge to use it succesfully, and there are bewildering choices to be made.

We provide here, in good faith, hoping to help you, information and ideas we have used ourselves or come accross.

We are also willing to try and help with specific questions or problems, so please put them to us here.

  ScoreBridge and Windows 10 E-Mail Client

Scorebridge is an excellent scoring program ("top coat") that can collect the results from a session, work out who won and what their overall score was, and help to publish the results.

Windows 10 is the latest version of the "undercoat" that you need on a computer or tablet that runs Microsoft programs. Moving from an older version of Windows to Windows is currently being offered to PC users free, so many of us are considering it, or have done it.

Scorebridge works fine with Windows 10 with one small exception. You can use Scorebridge to automatically create and send e-mails to all the players at a session. Scorebridge works with another "top coat" program that sends e-mails. There are many different e-mail programs. Microsoft provide a new one with Windows 10; it's just called "Mail". At present, Scorebridge does not work with this particular new e-mail program. The developer of Scorebridge knows about his, and it's in his work queue. In the meantime, you can download an older e-mail program called Windows Live Mail, and this will work fine with Scorebridge and Windows 10.