Bridge Winners Profile for Peter Brockway
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- Jan. 5, 2016
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- 16 hours ago
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- Things Bridge Winners could change?
- Wouldn't that be Eponymous of Pouthena? He's not nearly as well known nowadays as his contemporary Anonymous of Crete who is still widely cited having claimed authorship of all (and only) the algorithms for which no-one has claimed authorship.
- Things Bridge Winners could change?
- Sorry, Michael, if I understood. Perhaps the humour font is required... I'm not a USAmerican and sometimes the subtilty of your culture can trip me up. There's a spectrum from biology and climate denial through Elvis sightings and moon landing fakery to flatearthism. I admit that I'm ...
- Things Bridge Winners could change?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet Packet switched networks in the 1960s, followed quickly by internetworking. Commercial ISPs by the late 1980s. By 1990 Compuserve had 1/2 a million email users and Tim Berners-Lee gave us HTTP.
- Links to ACBL NABC Video Recordings
- A sensible person would partition the data since it would be a bit pointless to test a theory with the evidence that was used to create it. A real test will be against evidence that played no part in the development of the theory. The problem is trying to convince ...
- Surveillance at NABCs - new announcement
- > I fear a lot of rumors and nonsense based on limited and careless views I don't know how much rumor there will be, but limited careless people do create rumors. However that is simply no justification for censorship (including self censorship). To spread, rumor requires not only someone careless ...
- History of Duplicate Bridge
- Sorry, Ken is right: "The Little School". And it was formed at Cambridge, not Oxford. My bad, I was too lazy to look it up.
- History of Duplicate Bridge
- In "The Evolution of Whist" (1895) pp 155-6 Pole mentions and quotes from the letter to "Bell's Life": "The scheme, besides possessing the greatest simplicity, almost entirely eliminates luck. ... In each of two separate apartments a Whist table is formed, each table being composed of two good players against ...
- Ivey (Appellant) v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd t/a Crockfords (Respondents)
- Persi Diaconis (the guy who determined that cards should be shuffled seven times) talks about roulette and an "experiment" he performed with his students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xit5LDwJVck&t=1361s "We had the idea, we could clock the wheel and figure out where the ball is going ...
- Bridge for 4 year olds
- https://www.pagat.com/whist/kowhist.html https://www.pagat.com/whist/german_whist.html www.pagat.com documents a huge number of card games.
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