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Bridge Buff plays a great game of Bridge. New for the Bridge Buff 18: Ingberman, Leaping Michaels, 2D Flannery Overcall, Weak Two Lebensohl, Intermediate Jump Overcalls, Unusual Over Unusual and Defence to Michaels. It is highly praised throughout the Bridge Community. It is perfect for all levels of players, with Tutors for beginners and intermediates, and large numbers of conventions (codified deep into the auction), for more advanced players. It features excellent auction stability. We use Visual Deal to deal out thousands of randomly generated deals, complete with auctions. Then we test each auction for reasonableness. There is a matchpoint-style bidding mode. This features very aggressive bidding sequences around the table, similar to action found in your local duplicate club. There are two playing modes. In Practice mode, you have full control over every element of the game, and you can redeal, rebid, replay, take back cards, peek, and cheat as much as you want. In Match mode, you play a series of hands against a 'closed room' opponent and can play Teams, Pairs and Individual matches. Match mode also includes matchpoint estimates so you can measure how well you are doing against both Strong and Weak fields. Bridge Buff looks terrific, and is exceptionally easy to use. It features one-button access to most functions, and includes balloon help comments over most buttons. Bridge Buff features a huge range of optional modern conventions. Visual Deal is a hugely flexible Deal Generator that stands alone by virtue of its ease-of-use, its flexibility, and the fact it includes the generation of complete auctions and play-of-the-hand. Visual Deal uses Bridge Buff bidding and playing modules. You can watch deals one-by-one, or run a series of deals (10 to 1000) and accumulate statistics, or print a series of deals to a printer or file. The print formats are very flexible.