(1) Outline
In November 1996, Matthew Ginsberg, well known for his Bridge software GIB
(Ginsberg Intelligent Bridge player),
published a paper in Bridge World on the Law of Total Tricks, armed with his powerful double-dummy solver.
At the same time, he generously released a big library of 717,102 deals analyzed by his double-dummy solver.
The present software ViewDDLib is intended to visualize the bulk of these hands
as well as the results obtained by double-dummy analysis on your PC screen.
This show, provided by Ginsberg's library, will entertain many in the interests of how
computer will work in double-dummy analysis and how LoTT (the Law of Total Tricks) goes wrong or right.
In addition to this, another software LoTTanalyzer works out statistics over this
big ensemble of deals, in order to verify the LoTT (Law of Total Tricks) in greater detail
than Ginsberg did. Specifically, my LoTTanalyzer
can treat Notrump deals separately and can verify the Law formula in Notrumps.
(2) Downloading
Get hold of ViewDDLib3.ZIP and library (Library.asc or Library.bin) from the above links, and Unzip them into a
single folder.
If your version of Windows is XP or earlier, you need download and install VB6 runtime.
(3) Features