Author: Alex J Coyne

Whenever Bridge Base Online users are playing against the bots, they rely on the skills of a bot known as GIB. Ginsberg’s Intelligent Bridge-player was created to play bridge on a competitive level against human players, and still ranks as one of the most reliable bots ever built for it. But what other artificial intelligence…

I’ve always thought that being self-taught at certain skills is a great thing to be able to say. Self-education holds many advantages: The student learns their chosen skill at their own pace, and gets to pick their skill from a list of thousands. It’s up to you what you would like to learn, and how…

The number 13 is integral to calculating the table odds at a game of bridge. With every player holding 13 cards in their hand at the start of the game, you’ll always think of the number somehow when calculating the suit distributions (or high-card points) for what’s to come. To the average bridge player, the…