Bridge

As of January 2024, I have resumed competitive bridge.

After winning the National Schools Plate, National Schools Cup, and the England junior trials I was selected to represent England at junior level in the European Championships hosted in Prague in 2004. I also played in the English junior equivalent of the Home Nations trophy that year, which our team won. At the end of 2006 I took a 17 year break from bridge.

After 10 years at the cutting edge of poker theory in novel and complex games, the research I conducted whilst leading Cardquant’s machine learning software project brought me to some articles discussing the challenge of using artificial intelligence in bridge. Once I recognized that bridge was indeed a quasi-complex game, where extreme combinatorics coupled with imperfect information make it less susceptible to brute-force AI approaches than in smaller games such as chess, my interest was piqued once more.

I have utilized computational and analytical research techniques that I have developed from my professional work on poker theory to design a highly artifical bidding system. This novel systemic approach is anticipatory, context-driven and game theoretic.

You can view my current partnership WBF system card below: