[pdmunro]

When paying to play the robots, if the declarer is North, the software swaps seats for the players, but now there is a mismatch with the bidding. This has confused me a few times.

[seeeeeeya]

I have also experienced this problem. Very confusing and needs to be fixed

[undoubling]

This is NOT just confusing-----it is completely erroneous as the play DOES NOT conform to the auction------with the lead coming from the WRONG hand!!

[Deejayeh]

Actually I find it worse than that. If you look at the diagram above West is shown to the left of North in the heading line for the bidding (E-S-W-N). But look at the table - West is to the Right of North (as correct at a real bridge table). But it is highly confusing when the schematic shows it to the left!


Other software uses more of a "diamond" pattern so the above would be shown as

S

E W

N

with the bids appropriately displayed

What do others think?

[pescetom]

I complained about this when I first started to read the forum almost ten years ago, finding to my astonishment that everyone seemed resigned to this and other glaring limitations of the BBO UI (no distinction between hand of dummy and other hands, my name lighting up in yellow to play when I am really just a spectator, etc.). So I can understand why you are astonished both by the limitations and by the resignation

[To be fair, a few of the limitations I complained about have finally been mitigated or fixed: you can now spot the dummy due to a grey background (but only in the non-default hand diagram view) and it no longer looks like the program crashed after a claim is accepted, for example]

[pdmunro]

One of the key issues for me is "who doubled?" In the bidding shown, it was West originally. But now that the seats have been reassigned, it is East who doubled. And that ♦J lead by East is probably a singleton. All too confusing.

[pdmunro]

When North is declarer and the hands are rotated so that North is at the bottom of the screen and I play North, the biding is displayed incorrectly.