#Duplicate bridge online!

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formal walrus
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This is a hobby project I've been poking at for the last few months; it's slowly coming together. It's meant to simulate the experience of playing in a duplicate bridge tournament at a bridge club.

I've got most of it working; what's missing is:

  • Movements. I'm not sure they're needed, but I'm thinking about them.
  • Proper tournament scoring. Currently when you've finished playing a hand, you can see how you did in comparison to other players who played the same cards; but there are no "master points" or "IMP"s or anything like that.
  • A UI that doesn't suck :-). I'm working on that, slowly.

It's three separate repositories:

The system is currently running at https://bridge.offby1.info. I occasionally wipe the database and start over from scratch, so don't assume any accounts you create, or games you've played, will stick around forever.

agile wharf
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Awesome! Two quick points:

  • The link has a typo offyb1
  • I don't think I understand how to start a game XD
formal walrus
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heh

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thanks for pointing out the typo.

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how to start a game. yeah. It's ... awful.

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You have to

  • find a partner
  • then, find another unseated pair, and create a table with them.
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It's two or three steps.

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I tend to log in as "bob" because it's easy to type 🙂

formal walrus
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Thanks to Xterm, lots of UI tweaks; it should now be obvious how to start playing.

agile wharf
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Nice! This is so much better! I got in a game with bots quite easily.

formal walrus
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wow! thanks.

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that was the point 🙂

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ok so who won 🤣

agile wharf
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I vaaaaguely know bridge, so I only played a single hand, then started inspecting the network communication 😂

formal walrus
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well if it's not obvious: the bots you're playing against (and with) are jaw-droppingly stupid

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at some point my fantasy is to encourage other people to write their own, better, bots; the web site has an API so that clients can interact (and in fact the bots you're playing against are using it)