FunBridge.com
World Computer-Bridge Championship
ACBL's fifth annual Championship
Toronto 2001 summer NABC

Jack is the new World Computer Bridge Champion

http://www.jackware.nl/

The new World Computer Bridge Champion is Jack, developed by Hans Kuijf of the Netherlands. In the 64-board final KO match of the FunBridge.com World Computer Bridge Championship, Jack defeated Micro Bridge, developed by Tomio and Yumiko Uchida of Japan, 136-84.

In addition to the main competition there were exhibition matches pitting humans against computers.   Jack and Micro Bridge joined as teammates and played eight-board matches against two different teams.  One team was a team of International stars, Jacek Pszczola-Piotr Gawrys and Sam Lev-Pinhas Romik, who defeated the computer team by 18 IMPs.  Another team of star players, Lisa and David Berkowitz and Marty Fleisher-JoAnna Stansby, defeated the computers by 8 IMPs.  The players apparently enjoyed the experience, while the computers immediately showed a screen saver with the saying…"Wait 'til next year."

Zia also came by to play but the computers seemed to remember him and, sensing defeat, they shut down permanently

Besides all the bridge, the contestants found time for two discussion groups.  One technical, on the use of the Table Manager, and the other general, on future rules, regulations and conditions of contest.  Chip Martel was gracious thanks Chip Martel for spending his precious time leading a discussion group.

Final KO match                       

carryover                   64-board final Jack                      12                   43      90     114     136      Micro Bridge                              18      45       64       84

32-Board Round Robin, 30 VP scale

	32-Board Round Robin, 30 VP score
	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
1 Blue Chip Bridge	X	2	8	7	4	0	21
2 Bridge Baron	18	X	6	2	0	2	28
3 Q-Plus Bridge	12	14	X	9	6	6	47
4 Micro Bridge	13	18	11	X	4	17	63
5 Jack	16	20	14	16	X	16	82
6 Wbridge5	20	18	14	3	4	X	59