Viewer is a free software designed by Max Durbano. It allows the display of PBN (Portable Bridge Notation) files. Such files are available for most recent major bridge events.

Viewer is a deal analyzer, that uses the engine of GIB (bridge.exe). When connected to this engine, Viewer becomes a tool more or less similar to Deep Finesse, the famous and clever deal analysis software. Until you hear to the contrary, both softwares are infaillible. Viewer can also launch WBridge5, Yves Costel's software.

Viewer is free, and its statistical analysis part (thousands of PBN deals randomly generated, but oriented) could be easily improved. Any idea or suggestion is welcome. Please contact Max Durbano.

Viewer files can be downloaded using the button in the menu on the left, or by clicking on file names in the following text.

Viewer runs on PC with Windows 199X or NT. A Pentium 90 is enough, but the engine speed is obviously related to the power of the processor. For example, with a Pentium III 450 and 128 Mb RAM, the bridge.exe engine analyzes 16 deals, where South plays the "5" colours (i.e. 80 hands), in less than 4 minutes.

  • File viewer.zip includes the English version of Viewer.
     
  • File Francais.zip includes the sound files for the French version, grouped together in the wav_f directory, that takes place in the images directory of the English version (besides or instead of the wav_e directory, that contains the sound files of the English version).
     
  • File exemples.zip includes the PBN files of the Bermuda Bowl 1997, of the Europe Junior Championship 1998, and of the final phase of the World Software Championship 2000, held in Bermuda.
     
  • Any bitmap file can be used for the background display: It just has to be named decor.bmp et to be located in the images directory.
     
  • NOTICE : The Gib.exe software cannot be directly provided here, and, if necessary, must be downloaded from:

        ftp://present.cirl.uoregon.edu/pub/users/ginsberg/bridge/gib.exe

    Read the Help.doc file to install it.