Reviewing Hands played on BBO

In my opinion one of the best features of BBO is that you can always review every hand played afterwards. Its better than just getting a hand record. You can go over every hand, trick by trick and card by card. You can even get GIB to do a double dummy analysis on a trick by trick basis (this feature works best with "lin" files). Here's some information on how to review hands:

1. The best way of reviewing a match that you have played is to do the following:
   Using the same computer that you played the match on open bridge base (without logging on).
   Then click the bottom button called “Open Bridge Movie from your Computer”.
   Double click on the folder which is named with your BBO name (eg tarakiwi).
2. You should now have a list of all the BBO sessions that you have played on that computer. Teams matches will be named something like “Tournament ### 03 26 08”. Where ### is a unique tournament number assigned to your match and 03 26 08 is the date of the match in (US) mm dd yy order. You may have to scroll along the grey scroll bar at the bottom of the box to find the right file (they are in alphabetical order). Double click on the appropriate file and Voila! You now have the full record of the match. If you click on any result you get the full record of the hand which you can replay card by card! Even better you can get to see (card by card) the full record of what team mates did. It’s great for “apportioning the blame!”.
3. Alternatively you can do much the same thing by clicking this link. Enter your (BBO) user name (eg “tarakiwi”) click “get hands” and you get all the hands you have played on BBO in the last two days. (You can adjust the time to retrieve up to one months worth of hands.)