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The best bridge player that I know personally, has been in the years I've known him, a market stall trader, a pub bouncer, a general-purpose handyman, and is now helping in the building trade, restoring homes.
All I can say about his bridge ability is, he has superb natural judgement on both bidding and play, and everyone knows this and are frightened of him as a result. They do not play to the best of their ability against him, because they expect to lose.
Geoff
What profession (or background) would make for the better bridge player?
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Posted 2007-June-08, 01:08
awm, on Jun 7 2007, 06:17 PM, said:
(1) Some raw mathematical ability (to figure out suit combinations etc).
(2) Some ability to read people (figuring out what opponents have for their bids/leads)
(3) Some logical/deductive ability (work out what partner's bidding means)
(4) Some memorization skill (to remember system, suit combinations, as well as the play)
(5) The ability to remain focused/concentrate for a long period of time
(2) Some ability to read people (figuring out what opponents have for their bids/leads)
(3) Some logical/deductive ability (work out what partner's bidding means)
(4) Some memorization skill (to remember system, suit combinations, as well as the play)
(5) The ability to remain focused/concentrate for a long period of time
I think you are missing an ability to develop a system, comunication theory is a subject on the computer science, programmers are good at it.
the 3 top players in Spain (Goded, Lantaron and Wassik) are bridge proffesionals now.
Goded started as lawyer, also was Black Jack proffesional, and poker player
Lantaron was a Mathematician (maybe the combo made a good pair?), and chess player.
Not listed there, but I think Wassik was an athlete, run 500m
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Posted 2007-June-09, 18:05
In rgb, I argued that a programmer should make good bridge player. Bridge is the ultimate partnership game. Hence communication skills are paramount. A programmer explains what to do to a naive literal-minded colleague (the computer) using a restricted vocabulary. Just like bidding and signaling to partner at Bridge 
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Posted 2007-June-09, 19:21
nige1, on Jun 10 2007, 03:05 AM, said:
In rgb, I argued that a programmer should make good bridge player. Bridge is the ultimate partnership game. Hence communication skills are paramount. A programmer explains what to do to a naive literal-minded colleague (the computer) using a restricted vocabulary. Just like bidding and signaling to partner at Bridge
Computers are very fast idiots...
I don't like to partner idiots
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