Method of Posting Hands April 9, 2009
Posted by justinlall in News.trackback
I’m experimenting with ways to post full deals and half deals. I used to basically never post a full deal, and when I posted defensive hands I would just show you your hand at the beginning of the post, followed by dummy later, and you’d have to work it out. For declarer play hands I just posted the hands vertically.
I realize for some people this may be hard to follow, so I’m trying the BBO screenshot method, and possibly some of the online templates for bloggers. Let me know what you like best and I will keep that style consistent throughout the blog.
Hi, I guess this is the right place to tell you that the textbook hand you posted looks outside down to me.
After thinking of it i believe the problem is that I’m not used to see a first card play from a higher hand and later a play from a lower hand on the screen. So if the leader is east and dummy is south then east should be down and south on the left, or east on the left and south on the upper side.
Yeah, some other people said that. That was my bad, in the future I will always make dummy on top.
Why not use Fred’s Handviewer? If you can incorporate this into the page itself I personally think it’d be best.
Hmmm… looks like that’s what you are doing… I am sloooowwwww
Would strongly encourage standardizing on Fred G’s handviewer for posting hands where practical. I’m not a blogger, but this looks like the most flexible approach. By embedding the handviewer, you can offer interaction on many hands, which is 100x more engaging than static images imo. This may take some work and patience initially but it should only get easier. Will bet a lot that the developer would be happy to work with you and other bloggers to make this approach work.
Have you ever made a bridge video? For example, by using something like Camtasia Studio to capture video from BBO’s hand viewer with voice over from you and guest commentators? I have no idea how hard it is to do this.
hello all
Just wanted to say hi, and thanks