Tag: BBO Prime
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Bridge Basics in Numbers
Bridge would make little to no sense without the numbers. High-card points, low-card points, bonus points, master points. There are also points-when-vulnerable. Numbers happen to matter a lot in the game. The good news is that you don’t have to be a mathematician or kid with exceptionally high test scores to enjoy bridge. Playing bridge…
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Six Degrees of Wikipedia (& Bridge)
There’s an online experiment called Six Degrees of Wikipedia which finds “the shortest hyperlinked paths between any two pages on Wikipedia.” It’s based around the six degrees of separation; the concept that any random six things in the world you could mention can be related by just this specific separative hierarchy. From anything to anything…
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Prolific Bridge Players (& Their Earlier Books)
Until I was fully introduced to bridge, I never imagined that any card game could be dissected and observed as finely as some players examine the game of chess. Bridge is certainly one of the most widely written-about card games – and there have been many highly-prolific writers that have made their way through the…