TaoGaming Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Hi. I'm starting to teach my (9yo) son bridge. He wants to play, but the bidding frustrates him. I do play some minibridge against people locally, but it's difficult to get a group together. It would be easier if we could play mini bridge online against Robots. We'd be able to play in short bursts, they wouldn't get annoyed, etc. The Robots wouldn't have to be good, either. If this feature does exist in BBO, great (but I haven't found it. I'll admit I haven't looked too hard). I think this would be a big boon towards the game's future. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanoi5 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 This seems like a great idea. I know that when you're opening a table you can open it as a minibridge table, but what if there are no other people interested? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloa513 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 If you "cheated" by private messaging all of your hands to a Minibridge tablemaster, you could play Minibridge without any modfication except that the bidding would be have to be compelled. GIB couldn't do that but someone could do the bidding for GIBs. In deed it would be better than Minibridge as the HCP of each hand would still unknown but roughly guessable. The teaching tables allow you to do almost the same thing easier I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod_Bias Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Hi. I'm starting to teach my (9yo) son bridge. He wants to play, but the bidding frustrates him. I do play some minibridge against people locally, but it's difficult to get a group together. It would be easier if we could play mini bridge online against Robots. We'd be able to play in short bursts, they wouldn't get annoyed, etc. The Robots wouldn't have to be good, either. If this feature does exist in BBO, great (but I haven't found it. I'll admit I haven't looked too hard). I think this would be a big boon towards the game's future. Micro MiniBridge (http://www.osk.3web.ne.jp/~mcbridge/minib_e1.htm) allows you to play a team-of-four match against robots. These matches can be as short as four boards. You can feed in hands or take random deals. Robot play is not top-notch. Neither is robot decision-making about contract. Usually the way to win is to take a hard look at the two hands and and locate a superior contract (5♣ instead of the obvious 3NT) or playing in a minor and scoring 130 when the major suit preference of the robots only scores 110. The software is FREE, and you can play at home at your own pace. Perhaps your son will learn early that HCP is not the only factor in target selection. The robots seem to count HCP and look for major fits. That approach works frequently ... but the robots don't know when to ignore those factors and go for even better scores. Let me know what you think. Rod.Bias@Cutlip.Org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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