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• Improved the bidding and play; Improved the graphical user interface.
• You can now choose to display North's hand with suits in columns, as a dummy would be displayed on a bridge table
• Added 24 new challenging problem deals for a total of 312 Challenges; Revised the opening screen to make it more powerful
• Made the double-dummy search faster; Added six new Bridge Tournaments for free:
• .. The 2001 Delaware Regional, the 2004 Delaware Regional, the Fall 2009 Diamond State Sectional, and the Spring 2009 Wilmington Sectional
• Improved the bidding and play; Improved the graphical user interface. You can now choose to display North's hand with suits in columns, as a dummy would be displayed on a bridge table
• Improved the program's functionality for the visually impaired
• Made the double-dummy search faster; Added six new Bridge Tournaments for free: the 2010 Cavendish (with cross-IMPs scoring), the 2010 NSWBA ANC Butler Open Selection (with Butler IMPs scoring), the 2001 Delaware Regional, the 2004 Delaware Regional, the Fall 2009 Diamond State Sectional, and the Spring 2009 Wilmington Sectional
• On the Mac, we have added a toolbar for easy access to common functions, such as getting a hint or taking back a bid or play
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 28 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Mac / Windows | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
Average Customer Review:
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108 of 109 found the following review helpful:
Good program, bad graphicsJan 31, 2006
By Allan H. Clark
The program is generally very good-it does all the things you would expect and does them well. You can set lots of preferences, review and replay hands, save hands, learn and practice new bidding conventions. The program generally bids pretty well when you are playing solo, but the hints are not always reliable.
However, the graphics look pitifully cheap and unappealing. For a program that costs as much as this one does, you expect something much, much better in appearance.
74 of 76 found the following review helpful:
 Bridge Baron 17 ReviewJan 09, 2007
By Richard P.
The program is very helpful in giving the user lots of effective practice time, and this is great for improving one's play. I have found that playing in the DUPLICATE mode increases your improvement, because it allows you to compare how you play with how the computer plays the same hand. This is the best way to see what mistakes you make, or conversely what you do that is better than the computer's play, and use that newly-gained knowledge in future play.
The graphics for this program are pathetic, given its cost. In fact, the graphics for Bridge Baron 1 are vastly superior to those for Bridge Baron 17. I don't know how a developer can step that far backward. The developer should be able to tell that the cards played sometimes cover each other up to the degree that you can't always tell what suit is on one of the lower cards. This could be solved by spreading the cards out a little so you can see all the suits on all the cards in the trick. The developer should also be embarrassed about the display of the clubs in the bidding table, which doesn't even come that close to what a club looks like.
76 of 84 found the following review helpful:
 mac version disappointingJan 31, 2006
By L. Kucera
the mac version of this software is missing the bridge tutorial--the whole reason i was purchasing it. this fact was not clear in the information about the product.
30 of 32 found the following review helpful:
 A Major DisappointmentNov 27, 2006
By W. Green
I have had an early version of Bridge Baron for many years. It was good for its time. I expected that with all the years that have intervened this new version would be much better. Granted it has added a lot of bidding patterns and bells and whistles, but in the basic standard American bidding setting (with the thinking time pushed up to several seconds to "improve" play), it far too frequently makes stupid bids or plays which make absolutely no sense.
23 of 24 found the following review helpful:
Hideous graphicsAug 11, 2007
By Phillip B. Eddy
I also own the same company's Bridge game called Bridge Butler and it's graphics are infinitely better - why they can't take those graphics and use them on this much-more-expensive game, I have no idea.
The graphics on Baron are almost unuseable and these programmers should be ashamed. Maybe they'll be able to do better once they graduate from high school...
update - I just got a nasty email from the makers of this software essentially saying "You didn't like this one? Well, we've got a new better version coming out soon and you're stupid for not calling us to find out about it but you'll still have to pay for an upgrade, and you were stupid for dealing with Amazon... so there!"
Sheesh...
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