Double Dummy
Options:
The Double Dummy
options screen is below:
Before you get
to this screen you would have set up any deal biasing that you want and also
set up any fixed hands or cards that must or must not be dealt to a given
hand. When ready open the Double Dummy Screen and:
1] Enter
contract you want to analyse in the top left window by clicking on the red
crosses.
2] If you want
to specify a lead then click in the lead column of the results table and
select a valid card. If you want to test 2 or more different leads to the
same contract then click the green tick in the top box again and it will
change to ‚,
ƒ,
or „.
Usually you will want to fix the hand on lead when testing the effects of
different leads so make sure the lead you choose is a valid card that is in
that hand.
3] Select how
many deal to analyse.
4] If you click
the Graph button it will cycle through South, West, North, East. Choose the
hand you are interested in (usually declarer) and the results for hand shape
and other variables will be displayed at the end in graph for with options
to export to Excel.
5] If you tick
the save button all hands dealt will be saved to a file that you can look at
later.
6] Press start
to start dealing and analysing hands. If you stop at any time you can
continue from that point using the Continue button or start again with the
Start button.
7] When finished
click the Excel button to export this table to Excel (assuming you have that
software).
8] If you
selected the graph option your results will be displayed together with
option to filter those result and look at different data.
New for version
1.1.1 is the ability to compare two contracts for IMP and MP scores. If
you have a difficult decision such as whether to bid 3N or 4 of a major or
whether to sacrifice enter what you know about the opposing hands in the bias
menu and click the IMP comparison button on the Double Dummy screen. It
brings up the screen below:
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In
addition to comparing two contracts you can also set it up to compare
contract 1 with the par result for the deal. |
