Name Last modified Size Description
Parent Directory 27-Dec-2005 09:30 -
bpat613.exe 06-Jan-2003 10:15 2.4M
deals/ 19-Jun-2003 12:03 -
linux/ 13-Jan-2003 15:20 -
lpat615.exe 11-Mar-2003 09:55 2.4M
uipat615.exe 11-Mar-2003 09:55 3.7M
GIB upgrades
Enhancements to GIB can be broken into two broad types: There are
bridge enhancements, where we find a way to make the program play a
better game of bridge, and non-bridge enhancements, where we provide
new features in the user interface, extend the library of tournament
deals, and so on. Our policy is to provide all of these enhancements
at no charge.
Simple upgrade instructions: Download and
execute the user interface patch and the bridge patch. If you use GIB in a non-English
language, please also download and execute the foreign language patch. That's all there is to
it!
The non-bridge enhancements have also been split into separate
downloads to make the downloading process a little easier if you don't
want everything that is available.
- bpatxxx.exe This file contains bridge
improvements.
- dpatyy.exe These files contains the GIB deal
library, some 10,000 preplayed deals that you can use to compare your
play to that of the experts. There are separate files by year (96, 97,
98, 99, 00 and 01), and a file of deals that GIB has played against
itself, all in the deals directory. The
historical deals are also available as zip files.
- lpatxxx.exe This file contains GIB's support
for multiple languages. There is no need to download it unless you
want to change GIB to support a language that's been added
recently.
- uipatxxx.exe This file contains user interface
improvements.
Linux users should download the upgrade and patch files from the linux subdirectory.
The following improvements are supplied by the current patches. For
each, we give the name of the patch file, the date, the version of GIB
created, and the changes made. In all cases,
you only need the latest version of bpat, uipat or lpat. Each version
supersedes all of its predecessors.
- dpat03.exe (non-bridge enhancements)
- Spingold final (11 Sep 03)
- World Junior Teams (11 Sep 03)
- Arboned Team Cup (19 Jun 03)
- US Team Trials (11 Jun 03)
- Polish First Division Championships (11 Jun 03)
- Culbertson-Lenz replay (16 Jan 03)
- uipat615.exe and lpat615.exe, 11 Mar 03
- Includes support for Japanese and (European) Portuguese
- uipat614.exe, 10 Feb 03
- Fixes bug in saved games containing passouts
- uipat613.exe and bpat613.exe (bridge enhancements), 6 Jan 03
- Completely new time allocation scheme during bidding, with GIB
spending more time on more difficult or more important decisions
- "Thinking time" replaced with "playing strength" (which is
equivalent to thinking time on a 500 MHz PIII)
- Reproducible play -- GIB will now make the same decision if a
situation is repeated
- "Standard with gadgets" now includes Bergen, fitted jumps and Smolen
- Longer hesitations by computer players with singletons
- Improved bidding database
- uipat612.exe and lpat612.exe
(non-bridge enhancements), 11 Dec 02
- Added support for Romanian (ro)
- Change in delay when GIB plays a singleton
- Other minor fixes
- dpat02.exe (non-bridge enhancements)
- 2002 Reisinger (10 Dec 02)
- 2002 Commonwealth Games (10 Dec 02)
- 2002 Rosenblum Cup (4 Sep 02)
- 2002 Swedish Nationals (12 Aug 02)
- 2002 Spingold (31 Jul 02)
- 2002 European Teams Championship (3 Jul 02, revised 23 Jul 02)
- 2002 Cavendish (14 May 02)
- 2002 Vanderbilt (19 Mar 02)
- 2002 IOC (7 Feb 02)
- 2002 Cap Gemini (23 Jan 02)
- uipat611.exe and lpat611.exe
(non-bridge enhancements), 28 Oct 02
- Added support for Croatian (hr)
- Minor changes to Italian translation and network messages
- bpat610.exe (bridge enhancements), 18 Sep 02
- Fixes problem of subscriptions expiring early
- Slightly improved bidding
- uipat610.exe (non-bridge enhancements), 18 Sep 02
- No significant changes from uipat605
- bpat605.exe and uipat605.exe (bridge enhancements), 13 Sep 02
- Eliminates thinking on opponents' time during auction (unstable on
slow machines)
- Asking for a hint shows thinking
- Opening leads conform more closely to carding agreements
- Improved bidding
- uipat603.exe (non-bridge
enhancements), 4 Sep 02
- Fixes bug in replay from end of auction introduced in 6.0.2
- bpat604.exe (bridge enhancements), 3 Sep 02
- Thinking on opponents' time improved on slow machines
- bpat601.exe and uipat601.exe (bridge enhancements), 12 Aug 02
- Thinking on opponents' time during auction
- Greatly improved bidding relative to early versions of 5.1
- More aggressive preempting when playing Standard with Gadgets
- Other bidding improvements
- details on
earlier patches