Deal Generator User Guide

Generated Deal Panel

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When you generate or load a deal by any means on the Bridge, Out Ahead bridge deal generator, it will appear on this panel. If you generate or load multiple deals, the last one will appear on this panel.

The Random Deal button will generate a completely random deal. It does not use information from the Deal Shaper panel or the Deal Recipe Maker panel. If you want to use Shapers or Recipes, you must use the Generate Deal buttons on those panels.

The BridgeSolver button will open a new browser window showing the currently-displayed deal on the BridgeSolver web page provided by these good folks. BridgeSolver is a very nice user interface showing the results of passing your deal to Bo Haglund’s double dummy analysis program. This is the same double dummy program used by the well-regarded Bridge Composer program, which provides double dummy analysis of boards in The Common Game.

The Handviewer button will open a new browser window showing the currently-displayed deal on the hand viewer web page provided by Bridgebase.com. If you also keyed in an auction in the auction panel of the bridge deal generator, the hand viewer page will also display your auction.

The Report button will open a pop-up window showing just the currently-displayed deal, suitable for printing. The pop-up window has a Print button. The report functionality will be enhanced to provide some nice options including auctions and commentary, but for now it only shows the deal.

The Copy Link button creates a link containing the currently-displayed deal, and copies it to your computer’s clipboard. You can use that link in plain text like this:

https://bridgeoutahead.com/bridgedeal/?lin=qx|o1|md|3S96HT76DK973CT932,SAJ753HK4DAQ84C64,SKQTHQJ53DJCKJ875|rh||ah|Board%201|sv|0|pg||

Or, like a sane person, use it as a hyperlink in a document or web page where you are writing about your deal. As in, “Oh, yes, I remember Board 1 with KQT in spades in the North…”

The To Recipe button copies the currently-displayed deal to the Deal Recipe Maker panel. The use of that panel is described elsewhere.