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In 1998 and 1998, when GIB was Matt Ginsberg's program, it won the World Computer Bridge Championships. Why doesn't BBO regularly enter GIB in this event? This would let the BBO programmers know how well they are doing against the competitive efforts of Wbridge5, Jack, and Shark Bridge programmers. Art

I suggest that in every Robot Duplicate game you also enter one robot ("ROBO") as South. You might make him ineligible for masterpoints, but in each game ROBO will get his MP score. After 1000 or so games, ROBO's average masterpoint score would give a measure of how well the robots play as compared to the humans in those tournaments. There are some biases in this test. The human Souths all know they have the best hand, but ROBO won't. But ROBO should understand the bidding of his North partner better than most human Souths do. I think the result would be very interesting. From my experience I remain skeptical that the robots play as well as the average ACBL Robot Duplicate player. Art Quaife