Bridge Player 3

BP3 plays bridge on a standard micro format: you are always South and the computer is everyone else. You have the option of playing randomly dealt hands, a consistently superior North-South holding, or being consistently inferior. Surely only a masoch-ist would choose the last option?

The bidding is fairly sound, the only drawback being that while conventions such as Stayman and Blackwood are understood by the program, it is always up to you to initiate them. In the play, it does not 'cheat' on the E-W cards, ie, it does not play as though it can 'see' all 52 cards, which is a good thing. But it is rather erratic - several times I have seen E-W hold up a winning Ace until the trick where it can be trumped, and 'they' have discarded winners in the end-play. Somehow I feel they would not remain partners for very long in real life.

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