English Bridge Union
TabScore is wireless scoring software that has been developed for, and is in day-to-day use at, Bedford Bridge Club. It is being offered free of charge to any club that wishes to use it. Full details and downloads are available from The Bedford Bridge Centre website: https://thebedfordbridgecentre.org.uk/tabscore/
Over the years, Bedford Bridge Club has used a variety of scoring (ScoreBridge, EBUScore, JSSScore) and wireless scoring (BridgePad, BridgeTab) software. But we found that there was no wireless scoring software that met our requirements for functionality, ease of use, robustness and price. So we wrote our own.
A detailed description of TabScore is given in the downloadable User Guide, but in essence TabScore is a web application that runs across a local wireless network. Unlike most wireless scoring systems, TabScore uses modern thin-client architecture that provides consistent data by using a single scoring database. TabScore was designed as a direct replacement for BridgeTab. It should therefore work with any bridge scoring program that can create a bws database, but it has been built with EBUScore and Jeff Smith’s scoring programs in mind.
In terms of hardware, TabScore requires a server PC or laptop computer, a wireless router, and some sort of table-top device with a browser on each table (tablet, phone, etc.). Bedford Bridge Club has a set of 18 seven-inch tablets that are used only for scoring. With such tablets costing just £50 each, Tabscore provides a very much cheaper wireless scoring system than using dedicated hardware such as Bridgemate.
Peter Flippant
Secretary - Bedford Bridge Club
