I have been interested in applying Machine Learning to Bridge data for a long time; it was one of the original impetuses for building Bridgebots. Over the past few months I have made slow progress ...
Bridgebots Tools: CSV Report
I enjoy participating in the bridge-dev mailing list. There are a lot of cool ideas and discussions happening about building software for bridge. Recently, another group member reached out with que...
Introducing Bridgebots Part 3: LIN files and JSON
In my last post I covered how Bridgebots records the auction and the play of the hand, and how it can be used to import and analyze results from PBN files. Today we will expand that functionality t...
Introducing Bridgebots Part 2: Deal Records and PBNs
Last week I introduced a new bridge programming library: Bridgebots. I covered how to create and interact with Cards, Suits, and Deals. Today we’ll look at how Bridgebots represents the auction, th...
Introducing Bridgebots Part 1: Suits, Cards, Hands, and Deals
Over the past year I have been pursuing a few different bridge programming projects. Eventually I would like to explore the possibility of building ML models which can play and bid competitively, u...
Site Revamp
Welcome back! It’s been over a year since my last post but bridge and life have continued apace. I spent the last couple days upgrading the site to use the chirpy theme which has nice tagging and c...
Quicktricks Game 14
Really nice game (and double masterpoints!) 2nd/24 59.47%
Quicktricks Game 13
Poor game - 25th/28 with 40.22%
Quicktricks Game 10
7th/24 53.41%
QT 8 Post-Mortem
Unfortunately the VOD didn’t survive. Hand 1 1 </iframe> forrest07/30/2020 declarer misplayed this not sure what the opening lead should be DA see...