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Subject: Bridge bet

Author: Adnan

Date: 17:54:18 04/07/99



I just did a quick search in DejaNews and rec.games.bridge and found much more
about the bet. I said six million, but the challenge actually is for one million
dollars. The player's name, from Pakistan, is Zia Mahmood.

After reading some posts, I noticed that a program called "Gib" accepted the
challenge and played two matches against this guy's human team for one million
dollars but lost both matches. "Gib's" web site is at  http://www.gibware.com/

Apparently it is a controversial topic. Some people in rec.games.bridge were
saying that Zia would lose the bet within an year or so  and others were
disagreeing. Just do a power search in Deja News archive for "Zia bet" (without
the quotes) in rec.games.bridge. Looks something similar to all the controversy
we had about chess and computers:-)




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