WBreedyk Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Licensing JACK, and bringing it to BBO. Here is one idea: put in your convention card with JACK, and then have the ability to play with JACK as an expert partner (an avatar if you will) against other players who have their own avatar. You could set up tournaments using this concept: no more could you blame your partner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted July 13, 2011 Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 What is JACK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted July 13, 2011 Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 JACK is a computer bridge program. It has won 7 of the last 10 world computer bridge championships (with Wbridge5 winning the other 3). See wikipedia computer bridge page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted July 13, 2011 Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 Keep on dreaming, it's all about the money and Jack will be way too expensive. I rather have a free online bridge program with GIB instead of one where I have to pay because Jack's technology is used. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBreedyk Posted July 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 Keep on dreaming, it's all about the money and Jack will be way too expensive. I rather have a free online bridge program with GIB instead of one where I have to pay because Jack's technology is used.People do rent the BBO robots regularly. There is no reason that they cannot do the same with JACK, if BBO draws up the right agreement with the owner of the software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloa513 Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 People do rent the BBO robots regularly. There is no reason that they cannot do the same with JACK, if BBO draws up the right agreement with the owner of the software.The "owner" of Bridge Baron suggested that and BBO has done nothing I suspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 People do rent the BBO robots regularly. There is no reason that they cannot do the same with JACK, if BBO draws up the right agreement with the owner of the software.True, but JACK will be much more expensive than GIB, that's all I was trying to say. 1$ in a month is ridiculously cheap. In the web version you can even use GIBs for free for certain purposes (like partnership bidding). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloa513 Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 True, but JACK will be much more expensive than GIB, that's all I was trying to say. 1$ in a month is ridiculously cheap. In the web version you can even use GIBs for free for certain purposes (like partnership bidding).Its not $1 per month, its $1/day or $1/week for a junky software. You mean some tournaments. A full license of Jack 5 is about 106.394 USD forever over 3 years- 11c. Its all in how the licensing arrangement work and if Jack can work withine BBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 People will blame partner whether partner is Jack, Gib, or Zia, I suspect. Still, it is an interesting idea, and I'll discuss it w/Fred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxhong Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 I think both jack and wbridge5 are much much stronger than gib. wbridge5 is even free for users to download. Licensing JACK, and bringing it to BBO. Here is one idea: put in your convention card with JACK, and then have the ability to play with JACK as an expert partner (an avatar if you will) against other players who have their own avatar. You could set up tournaments using this concept: no more could you blame your partner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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