Bridge computer programs jack

Four card minor as well as his modern five card major methods. Special convention cards for first and second year students are available. Strongly improved preemptive bidding. Many options available to tune the preemptive bidding style in your partnership with Jack. More tournaments, bidding contests and many more deals for the built in virtual JackBridge Club. A new tournament scoring method: instant matchpoints. Join a huge pair tournaments and instantly see how you are doing.

Exhanced playing strength. Besides adjusting the playing strength you can now adjust Jacks bidding aggressiveness in detail. Jack himself is not afraid to overbid once in while and if that is something you hate in your partnership you can tone him down! Built-in provision for updating: Now you can download improvements to Jack and new tournaments as they become available on our website Jack 6 is now usable on "notebook" computers laptops without a CD drive and works without a problem under Windows 8.

On-screen playing cards are digitally enhanced and now available for even the highest resolutions. Many improvements to the Interactive Professor Jack. The Professor will look over your shoulder as you play, making helpful comments about your bidding and card play on the spot. He is flexible. At your command, he will comment about whatever aspects of your play you specify.

Options are available to slow down Jacks speed of play to the pace you are used to. Improved help functions and a renewed online manual. PDF available to print the manual brief manual as a booklet for easier reading. Jack 6 provides dozens of other improvements and enhancements, of course, including more tournaments, more deals in competition, new bidding conventions, Jack's Bali convention card, reviews of played deals in the game-viewer, and changes in Jack's partnership approaches.

Works on or bit computers. This is not according to the rules for the contest. Let's hope the conflict is resolved in some ways, so that Jack can participate again! Jack was written by Hans Kuijf from the Netherlands. The bridge skills of World Champion Berry Westra and Dutch top-player Wim Heemskerk resulted in a program that took the top from the start, yet it is still continuously being improved. Jack has participated in World Computer Bridge Championship , where it reached the semifinals at its debut in 3rd.

After another hard years work Jack won the title in and successfully defended it until World Champion in , , and After 4 years of domination Jack's reign was broken by WBridge5 from France in the final of 2nd. Jack recaptured the title in In Jack won the Round Robin far ahead of the field but lost the final with a small margin to WBRidge5, it was Jack who reclaimed the title in a direct match against WBridge5 and succesfully defending it again in , , and Jack is only available on Windows.

Demo for download.