Author: Daniel Jackson

Robot Bridge Lectures by Josh Donn and Leo LaSota

Here are links to lectures given by Josh Donn and Leo LaSota. There is good stuff in these lectures.  
Josh Donn’s lecture notes from Sunday, June 22:
 
Lecture notes from Sunday, June 15:
 
Other lectures from Josh – these were sent out in an email by BBO:
 
Leo LaSota’s lectures from 2013:

Gavin Wolpert articles on robot bridge from Bridge Winners

Greetings, robot battlers!
 
The summer robot championship has started. If you haven’t registered already, it will be $50 instead of $40. I hope you do better than I did, I had about 60% the first session.
 
Gavin Wolpert (national champion, founder of bridgewinners.com) produced a series of videos on Bridge Winners on robot bridge. I have already taken the advice to “go low” and gotten a good result with it.
 
 
 
Here are links to Gavin’s articles. They are from 2011 but I think they are still relevant in some ways. The robots declare the hands when they are declarer instead of the human, so you can tell that the articles are a bit dated.
 
 
Video: Robot Duplicate Part 1 – Bridge Winners
After battling it out with some video editing software, I’ve managed to produce our first-ever instructional video. In this video I will play a Robot Duplicate ACBL Tournament on Bridge Base and tell you my thoughts as I play.
bridgewinners.com

http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/video-robot-duplicate-part-2/

 
Video: Robot Duplicate Part 2 – Bridge Winners
This is the continuation to Video: Robot Duplicate: Part 1. Here are the hand records. Here is the link to Passed Hand Partner: Overcalling mentioned in the video.
bridgewinners.com

 

 
 

Some Extreme Tactics!

Hello, robot battlers!
 
I would like to present some hands out of a recent robot tournament. The winner of this tournament scored over ninety percent! The winner did some really weird stuff (which I don’t really endorse over the long term) so hold onto your hats!
 
Also, I figured out a way to put comments in with the links and also how to condense the long URLs into a small clickable link. Thanks to Jeff Kroll and Charles Collins for their help!
 
Some of the comments are longer than others so use the mouse wheel to scroll up to see the beginning of my comments.
 
I told you this was some wild stuff!
 
The only average result of the set.
 
Something a little more normal to end the set.
 
 
These hands were very interesting. The winner of the second robot tournament, Fuzzyquack, just did normal stuff to win the tournament, nothing like this. I will try to get some hands from him and maybe some other expert players.

Welcome!

Welcome to Robot Battles!
I will be writing posts (hopefully weekly) which show a few deals that I feel are interesting from either a bidding or play perspective. Please feel free to ask any questions or make any comments. For the first few posts I will be sending the same content that I have sent out to my email list.
I would love to see submissions of any interesting hands.
I have been able to bake the commentary on these hands into the links below.
Thanks for reading!