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This has been shown on BBO in previous years and has always been quite fun to watch; and fast too (about 4 or 5 minutes per board I think). Is there any coverage planned this year?
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World Computer-Bridge Championships
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Posted 2007-October-03, 15:49
Disclaimer: The above post may be a half-baked sarcastic rant intended to stimulate discussion and it does not necessarily coincide with my own views on this topic.
I ♦ bidding the suit below the suit I'm actually showing not to be described as a "transfer" for the benefit of people unfamiliar with the concept of a transfer
I ♦ bidding the suit below the suit I'm actually showing not to be described as a "transfer" for the benefit of people unfamiliar with the concept of a transfer
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Posted 2007-October-03, 20:09
i don't think that there wil be any coverage of this event.
People in charge of this event allways come to see me the day before or some hours before it (like in Estoril ) start to make me help them for the coverage.
it would be very simple to come just 3 or 4 days before to set up it with me.
I really think that they don't care about any broadcasting.
People in charge of this event allways come to see me the day before or some hours before it (like in Estoril ) start to make me help them for the coverage.
it would be very simple to come just 3 or 4 days before to set up it with me.
I really think that they don't care about any broadcasting.
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Posted 2007-October-04, 09:04
Looks like some new entrants this year:
http://www.ny-bridge...ridge/index.htm
http://www.ny-bridge.com/allevy/computerbr...ntries2007.html
Includes link to convention cards used for the competition. I imagine one of the difficulties is programming in the convention cards of your different opponents.
http://www.ny-bridge...ridge/index.htm
http://www.ny-bridge.com/allevy/computerbr...ntries2007.html
Includes link to convention cards used for the competition. I imagine one of the difficulties is programming in the convention cards of your different opponents.
Peter . . . . AKQ . . . . K = 3 points = 1 trick
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"Of course wishes everybody to win and play as good as possible, but it is a hobby and a game, not war." 42 (BBO Forums)
"If a man speaks in the forest and there are no women around to hear is he still wrong?" anon
"Politics: an inadequate substitute for bridge." John Maynard Keynes
"This is how Europe works, it dithers, it delays, it makes cowardly small steps towards the truth and at some point that which it has admonished as impossible it embraces as inevitable." Athens University economist Yanis Varoufakis
"Krypt3ia @ Craig, dude, don't even get me started on you. You have posted so far two articles that I and others have found patently clueless. So please, step away from the keyboard before you hurt yourself." Comment on infosecisland.com
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"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." Oscar Wilde
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Posted 2007-October-04, 16:24
Yes. Although I wish competitors were freer to innovate on the bidding as well. Would be nice to see more variety in the systems used. Precisions and relays and maybe new systems (with different trade offs of memory versus usefulness) would seem an ideal place for computers. I.e., computers have much better memory than people, so why not let them use it to play complex systems as long as they disclose the systems?
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Posted 2007-October-04, 17:15
Mbodell, on Oct 4 2007, 05:24 PM, said:
I wish competitors were freer to innovate on the bidding as well. Would be nice to see more variety in the systems used.
That is one direction to go in.
Another is to have a standardised bidding system that all the programs use.
Then allow individual programmers to determine:
1) what bidding adjustments to make; and
2) the most efficient algorithms to simulate and analyse possible hands.
Peter . . . . AKQ . . . . K = 3 points = 1 trick
"Of course wishes everybody to win and play as good as possible, but it is a hobby and a game, not war." 42 (BBO Forums)
"If a man speaks in the forest and there are no women around to hear is he still wrong?" anon
"Politics: an inadequate substitute for bridge." John Maynard Keynes
"This is how Europe works, it dithers, it delays, it makes cowardly small steps towards the truth and at some point that which it has admonished as impossible it embraces as inevitable." Athens University economist Yanis Varoufakis
"Krypt3ia @ Craig, dude, don't even get me started on you. You have posted so far two articles that I and others have found patently clueless. So please, step away from the keyboard before you hurt yourself." Comment on infosecisland.com
"Doing is the real hard part" Emma Coats (formerly from Pixar)
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." Oscar Wilde
"Assessment, far more than religion, has become the opiate of the people" Patricia Broadfoot, Uni of Gloucestershire, UK
"Of course wishes everybody to win and play as good as possible, but it is a hobby and a game, not war." 42 (BBO Forums)
"If a man speaks in the forest and there are no women around to hear is he still wrong?" anon
"Politics: an inadequate substitute for bridge." John Maynard Keynes
"This is how Europe works, it dithers, it delays, it makes cowardly small steps towards the truth and at some point that which it has admonished as impossible it embraces as inevitable." Athens University economist Yanis Varoufakis
"Krypt3ia @ Craig, dude, don't even get me started on you. You have posted so far two articles that I and others have found patently clueless. So please, step away from the keyboard before you hurt yourself." Comment on infosecisland.com
"Doing is the real hard part" Emma Coats (formerly from Pixar)
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." Oscar Wilde
"Assessment, far more than religion, has become the opiate of the people" Patricia Broadfoot, Uni of Gloucestershire, UK
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