Contract Bridge

CBridge 4.0D aka Contract Bridge 4.0 from Sydenham Software (Errol Wallinggford) was a shareware release in 1992, where the free demo was 15 minutes of play before it timed out. It was released in S p i e l e k i s t e # 214 and in ASI-GAMES-VOL 257. Contract Bridge is a single player, shareware, implementation of the card game of the same name.

The player can choose to play as the South hand, West North or East. The game, which uses US style practices uses the Goren Point-Count method for hand evaluation and recognizes these conventions; Short Club Openers, No Trump Weak Signal Bids, Preemptive Opening bids, Stayman, Take-Out Doubles, and Blackwood though any or all of these conventions can be turned off.

The game opens with a suit bid on hands that have thirteen or fourteen points and a four card suit, or sixteen to eighteen points for a one no trump bid. After each hand the player can replay it, review it, or rotate the hands and replay it.