Sniffnoy comments on A Player of Games - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Larks 23 September 2010 10:52PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 30 September 2010 06:09:02PM *  0 points [-]

Radical experimentation is simply illegal in tournament Bridge.
It was an interesting game a few decades ago when artificial systems were nominally legal, but resulted in judicial harassment. Then you had to balance the in-game advantage against the human factor. (ETA: by "interesting" I did not mean "fun" but "relevant to the post, ie, to exploiting rules in real life")

ETA: my favorite bridge story is that HPF Swinnerton-Dyer was once allowed to bid 8 clubs, a loophole that was quickly closed. My only source is a blog comment

Comment author: Sniffnoy 01 October 2010 12:07:33AM 0 points [-]

So "A bid of X means I think X is a good bid" is right out, then? :P