Players don’t enter the scoring points. The Bridgemate (and also the scoring program) will calculate this automatically using the vulnerability belonging to the board number. This avoids many conversion mistakes from contracts to scoring points.
In case there is a sit-out, the Bridgemate will automatically skip that round. When the sit-out happens to be in the last round, the Bridgemate will show end the session after the last but one round.
Bridgemate saves all results also in local memory. When it might happen that results are not retrieved by the scoring program and Bridgemate Pro Control, the Bridgemates can be connected directly to the computer by using a special data cable for retrieving the results.
The Bridgemate scoring system has 32 channels available for data communication. Multiple systems can be operated at the same time without interfering with each other by using different channels.
No two Bridgemates with the same section and table number can log in to the server at the same time. It is therefor not possible to “spy” a session and retrieve data from outside.
All data transmissions are encrypted in order to have a secure communication between Bridgemate and server.
The server is an independent device and once fed with the correct data, it can operate without having a physical connection to the computer. When it is re-connected to the computer again, all not retrieved results will be retrieved and stored in Bridgemate Pro Control program.
