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From: larry@pdn.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,rec.games.bridge
Subject: Re: want recommendations for MS-DOS bridge game
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Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 09:24:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 29 09:24:47 1987
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Keywords: games bridge MS-DOS PC
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In article <168@faron.UUCP> bs@faron.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
>... Maybe when as much time and effort has been spent on computer
>bridge as chess we'll have something decent but I doubt it. Chess is a
>deductive game, based on complete information. Bridge is an inductive one,
>often based upon estimates of your opponents playing abilities. Such things
>are currently beyond our understanding of how to program properly.

Maybe, but I've read a lot about "psych-ing" in chess, as well as bridge.
What a computer version CAN do, however, is teach people modern bidding
systems.

Larry Swift 			UUCP: {gatech,codas,ucf-cs}!usfvax2!pdn!larry
Paradyne Corp., LF-207  	Phone: (813) 530-8605
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Largo, FL, 34649-9981		     time, as yet unsullied by yours.