Adding Movements to BridScor

In common with other scoring systems, BridScor can only score movements that it knows about. Mitchell movements are, by their nature, standard and it is unlikely that users will want to amend the Mitchell movements which are already stored within the BridScor system. In contrast, Howell movements are far from standard and it is possible to construct a great number of different Howell Movements for any given number of tables in play. BridScor comes with a good selection of built-in Howell movements and it is probably sensible for most users to utilize them. You can print movement cards for many of the built in movements by downloading www.bridscor.fsnet.co.uk/howels.zip.This is a zipped version of a Microsoft Excel file. If you want to use a movement that BridScor doesn’t know about then you will need to enter details of the movement into the system.

A note of warning - If you are proposing to do any editing of the BridScor Movements then it is very strongly recommended, as a precaution, that you back up files \BridScor\BridData\Bridge.Mdb and \BridScor\BridData\Bridge.Ldb before you start. Another note of warning – you are very strongly recommended not to alter any of the movements that were issued with your BridScor system but, by all means feel free to add and amend new movements.

If you are proposing to add extra movements then it is suggested that you proceed as follows in order to understand the way that movements are stored within the system. Movement 5G is used as an example:

· Load BridScor

· Click on Tasks/Movements

· Click on movement 5G

· Click Print Movement and send the resulting file to the printer

· Now compare the printout of Movement 5G with the movement cards shown at the bottom of this page (or better still print Movement 5G from the downloaded Howell movement zip file www.bridscor.fsnet.co.uk/howels.zip) and it should become apparent how movements are stored within BridScor. But see below for further amplification

· You should now be able to add a new movement to BridScor. Make sure that the new movement has a different identifying letter from any of the letters currently in use for the selected number of tables.

Movement 5G is explained below in a little more detail:

Assuming that we are talking about the 27 board variant of the movement then Set 1 is the set of boards 1-3, Set 2 is the set of boards 4-6, Set 3 is the set of boards 7-9 etc.

Now consider Set 1 (i.e. boards 1-3). If you look at the movement cards (below) you can see that the first time the boards are played is by NS 10 v EW 1 (Table 1 Round 1), the second time it's by NS 6 v EW 8 (Table 5 Round 3), the third time by NS 2 v EW 7 (Table 4 Round 5), then NS 5 v EW 4 (Table 3 Round 6) and finally NS 3 v EW 9 (Table 2 Round 8).

So, for Set 1, the NS/EW combinations (in the correct order of play) are:

NS	EW
10	1
6	8
2	7
5	4
3	9

If you now look at the BridScor printout from Movement 5G you will see that this is indeed the data for Board Set 1. Line indicates the order in which boards are played.

Similarly, for Set 2 (i.e. boards 4-6), the boards are played 5 times and the NS/EW combinations (in the correct order of play) are:

NS	EW
10	2
7	9
3	8
6	5
4	1

And so on up to set 9 (i.e. boards 25-27).

You should now be able to see the pattern and be able, therefore, to add new movements to BridScor.

Note: There are two grids (i.e. tables of information) on the movements screen. You should be aware that any amendments that you enter will be applied to the grid highlighted in yellow. Clicking on either of the grids will cause it to become the highlighted grid.

Movement 5G

				Movement/5G
5 TABLE HOWELL
18/27 Boards
TABLE No 1
Round	N/S	E/W	18 Boards	27 Boards
1	10	1	1-2	1-3
2	10	2	3-4	4-6
3	10	3	5-6	7-9
4	10	4	7-8	10-12
5	10	5	9-10	13-15
6	10	6	11-12	16-18
7	10	7	13-14	19-21
8	10	8	15-16	22-24
9	10	9	17-18	25-27
N/S - REMAIN STATIONARY
E/W - MOVE TO TABLE 3 N/S
BridScor -- Bridge Scoring Software
				Movement/5G
5 TABLE HOWELL
18/27 Boards
TABLE No 2
Round	N/S	E/W	18 Boards	27 Boards
1	5	2	5-6	7-9
2	6	3	7-8	10-12
3	7	4	9-10	13-15
4	8	5	11-12	16-18
5	9	6	13-14	19-21
6	1	7	15-16	22-24
7	2	8	17-18	25-27
8	3	9	1-2	1-3
9	4	1	3-4	4-6
N/S - MOVE TO TABLE 5 N/S
E/W - MOVE TO TABLE 1 E/W