[helene_t]

Someone suggested I took a look at wbridge5 which has won the world champship thrice, is free and runs under wine.

Well the user interaction is horrible (under wine, at least) so I am not going to use it, but having played a few boards I found it hard to believe that this software is a recent world champ. Completely bizarre bidding, like opening 3NT on a balanced 5-count. Or what do you think of this bidding:
2NT-p-3NT-p
p-6NT-x-.......

Any ideas about what is going on? Is it that it runs so slowly under wine that it has to set it level to sub-zero in order to meet some required speed? It is hard to imagine a software design that would allow an installation problem to cause it to mix up the pass card with the 6NT card or something like that, but who knows .....

[mcphee]

Running under wine or drinking wine?

[kenberg]

Sounds like some indies I have played in.

[NickRW]

It seemed a bit weird to me when I downloaded it a while back. Jack was better behaved, not that I bothered to actually buy the full copy of that either.

Nick

[barmar]

Maybe you should contact the vendor, they might know of compatibility problems with WINE. It seems unlikely that it behaves like this in typical configurations.

[Roupoil]

I was pretty sure to have read somewhere that the freely downloadable version was not the same that the one which won the world championships, ut I can't find this info anymore...