The BridgemateThe Bridgemate is a
rugged, wireless, keyboard which sends scores to a PC which produces the
results. The Bridgemate is used by North who enters the score as in the
following example. The figures and letters in italics are what
North enters.
Board number: 12
Contract: 3NT
By: W
Lead: J♦
(optional)
Result: -1
The Bridgemate calculates the score (in this case 50 to N/S) and asks
East (or West) to confirm before transmitting it to the PC.
At any stage, North can press "cancel" to go back to correct a
mistake. Once sent, only the director, who has a special Tournament
Director Key (TD Key) can change the score.
The Bridgemate knows which round it is, which boards are on which
tables, which pairs are sitting at the table, the vulnerability of the
board and which boards have already been played.
The Bridgemate can optionally display the percentage of matchpoints
won for the score just sent and display the scores from previous rounds.
These are listed with the current "top" first to make it easy to see how
you have done.
The Bridgemate Server
The scores are received by the Bridgemate Server, a box the size of a
small book, which is connected to the PC. The Bridgemate Server has a
sophisticated power management system and battery backup to ensure that
scores are not lost in the case of power failure. (The scores are also
stored in the Bridgemates which can be connected to the Bridgemate
Server in the unlikely event that the mains fails and the batteries are
dead). A scoring program reads the scores via the Bridgemate Control
program every 10 seconds or so and calculates the current result, which
can be displayed on a screen, so players can see at any time during the
session how they are doing. This information can also be sent to a
website every 10 seconds.
Scoring Programs
The following scoring programs have been enhanced to work with the
Bridgemate Pro system.
ASE Scorer (ASE
Computing)
Bridge Scorer (Michael
Rothwell)
BSP (Andrew
Barnes)
Duplicate Pairs Scorer (Jeff
Smith)
Duplicate Scorer (Keith
Sheppard)
Fin-S (Chris
Stableford)
Magic Contest (Tomas
Brenning)
SCBridge (Stephen
Brown)
ScoreBridge (Stephen
Bligh)
Scorer (Tony
Haworth)
They all have a simple way of starting the session by asking how many
sections there are, how many tables , how many boards per round, the
movement and any sit-outs. This information is sent to the Bridgemates.
At the beginning of each session the Bridgemates asks for the member
numbers which are sent to the scoring program. Visitor names are left
blank to be filled in by the director or administrator during the
session.
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For More Information Contact:
Maurice Cahm
Bridgemate Pro (UK & Eire)
PO Box 424, New Malden, KT3 9AQ
Tel: +44 (0)20 8336 1369 - +44 (0)7785 260421
Email:
info@bridgemate.co.uk
