World Computer-Bridge Championships

[mrdct]

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?

[Zmud99]

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.

[pdmunro]

Looks like some new entrants this year:

http://www.ny-bridge.com/allevy/computerbridge/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.

[Mbodell]

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?

[pdmunro]

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.