Features include: * States a line of play for all claims * Improved bidding agreement flexibility (set your own takeout-double level) * Now draws negative inferences (gaining information not only about bids made, but also about bids not made) * Seven new bidding conventions including Two-Way Drury, Multi-Landy, and Graded Ogust * Increased feature set on the Macintosh * New tournaments and new challenges * You can now see what Bridge Baron is “thinking” about, at higher levels of bidding and play * At higher levels of bidding and play, while Bridge Baron is “thinking”, you can force it to bid or play immediately by clicking the “Bid Now” or “Play Now” button * The option to choose among hand evaluation methods, such as long-suit point count or short-suit point count * On the Mac, vastly improved user interface * Improved bidding and play, including improved Two-over-One bidding, improved matchpoint-focused bidding and play when playing tournament deals at matchpoints, and more realistic double-dummy cardplay * Bridge Baron can optionally alert and announce bids * We have greatly expanded and improved the statistics * Improved claiming by Bridge Baron, especially in notrump contracts * Twelve new bidding conventions: Leaping Michaels, Kokish Relay, McCabe Adjunct, Snapdragon Doubles, Bart, Rosenkranz Redoubles, Mixed Raise Jump Cue-Bid Responses, various 3-level responses to 1NT, and Jacoby Transfer Superacceptances with Working Doubletons
* Bridge Tournaments, including the 2006 Cavendish at cross-IMPs * 24 new Bridge Challenges have been added, totaling 240 problem deals in all * Improved bidding and play * Improved! Now choose to open 1NT with a 6-card minor or a stiff honor * Improved! Now choose to play Puppet Stayman after 1NT, after 2NT, or both * All 53 octillion (that’s 53 billion billion billion) bridge deals as possible random deals in Bridge Baron * Improved double-dummy capabilities. * Double-dummy and par-contract solvers
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: - Windows (English, German, and French only) : 32 MB RAM, 100 MB hard drive space, Windows 95/98/2000/Me/NT4.0/XP/Vista operating systems. - Macintosh/iMac/MacOS (English and French only) : Universal Mac OS X application, requires OS X 10.4 or later