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"Switch hands to declare when dummy" feature is confusing.

#1 User is offline   jdgalt 

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Posted 2012-November-21, 22:42

I just played my first robot tournament where the program changes the seats so that the human plays the hand when his robot partner is declarer, and I found it confusing as can be.

First the labels get changed so that my name is on the hand at top of screen, and the hand at the bottom gets labeled Robot. And the compass directions reverse, giving the impression that I'm now sitting in the bottom (Robot) chair (and the hand with my name is the one I had during bidding, which is now dummy).

But then -- the lead comes down and it's from the player on my RIGHT??? What the bleep?

This is wrong. If you're going to have me play the robot declarer's hand, then put that hand at the BOTTOM of the screen and have the lead come from the LEFT. Otherwise it is completely unclear which hand is hidden from the opponents, and it's confusing as heck to boot!
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Posted 2012-November-22, 10:57

See here: http://www.bridgebas...011#entry678011
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