Felienne Hermans-Using F# and genetic programming to play computer bridge from desi pun Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 29 min 37 sec
✓ Published: 23-May-2016

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In September 2016, Felienne's bridge bot Desiderius (Desi, as she calls him affectionately) will compete in the World Championship of Computer Bridge. In this talk she will explain how she built Desi.nnBridge is a card game with two distinct phases: bidding and playing. For this talk, Felienne will focus mainly on the bidding part, as that is most challenging. In the bidding phase, both pairs of players bid to reach 'the contract': the number of tricks they want to make, and with which trump col