Scores 7W55  Main Challenge

September 2001 Scores

Analyses  by Richard Pavlicek

The “When the Chips Are Down” bidding poll had 577 participants, and everyone scoring above average is listed here. Ties in the rankings are broken by the date and time of submission (earliest wins). At the end of this page is a “Bot’s Eye View,” which shows how various computer programs fared.

Top 100

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301

Location Ranking

Bot’s Eye View

Participation Stats

Number of participants	577
Number of locations	102
Highest score	60
Median score	49
Lowest score	25
Average score	47.64

Top 100 Places

Rank	Score	LC	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	60	AU	Bob Geyer	2	4	4	2	4	2
2	59	IN	Ramkumar Vaidyanathan	2	5	4	2	4	2
3	59	USnc	Tim Hemphill	3	4	4	2	4	2
4	59	USwa	David Baer	2	5	4	2	4	2
5	59	USfl	Marcia Greenstein	3	4	4	2	4	2
6	59	UKen	Mike Isaacs	2	4	4	2	4	2
7	58	CAon	Gord Murray	1 NT	4	4	2	4	2
8	58	CAon	Gabriel Nita-Saguna	2	4	3	2	4	2
9	58	USmi	Steve Landen	2	4	3	2	4	2
10	58	CH	Dima Nikolenkov	2	4	3	2	4	2
11	58	USva	Chris Maclauchlan	2	4	4	X	4	2
12	58	IN	Arvind Srinivasan	2	4	3	2	4	2
13	58	USmd	Richard Kvalnes	3	4	4	2	4	2
14	58	CAon	David Grainger	2	4	3	2	4	2
15	58	UKen	Sonia Zakrzewski	2	4	4	2	4	4
16	58	IT	Stefano Biciocchi	2	4	3	2	4	2
17	58	USfl	Irene Knowles	1 NT	4	4	2	4	2
18	57	AU	Dinu Raducanu	2	4	4	2	4	2
19	57	US	Jim Fox	2	4	3	2	4	2
20	57	USwa	Michael Dodson	3	4	3	2	4	2
21	57	CAon	Daniel Korbel	2	5	3	2	4	2
22	57	USmd	Mark Shaw	3	4	3	2	4	2
23	57	IN	Sivakumar Salem	2	5	3	2	4	2
24	57	TW	Ye-Fon Tsai	2	4	4	X	4	2
25	57	IN	Gowniyan Vaideeshwar	2	5	3	2	4	2
26	57	DE	Zuzana Herrmann	2	4	4	2	4	4
27	56	IN	Venkatesh Ramaratnam	2	4	3	X	4	2
28	56	USnh	Gary Nute	2	4	4	2	4	2
29	56	AU	Kieran Dyke	2	5	3	2	4	2
30	56	USmd	Mitch Edelman	2	4	3	X	4	2
31	56	USmn	Brian Weikle	2	4	3	2	4	4
32	56	NL	Has Henken	1 NT	4	3	2	4	2
33	56	USca	Marion MacMahon	3	4	3	2	4	2
34	56	USdc	Simon Steel	3	4	4	2	4	4
35	56	USga	Martin Nathan	3	4	4	2	4	2
36	56	USnj	Arline Fulton	3	4	3	2	4	2
37	56	NL	Geon Steenbakkers	2	4	3	2	4	4
38	56	TR	Levent Ersoy	2	4	4	2	4	2
39	56	RO	Felicia Chelu	1 NT	4	3	2	4	2
40	56	PL	Jacek Gackowski	2	4	3	X	4	2
41	56	USfl	Carol Mullins	1 NT	4	3	2	4	2
42	56	TR	Tayfun Ozbey	2	4	4	2	4	2
43	56	TW	Suyu Chiu	2	5	4	X	4	2
44	56	UKen	Rich Johnson	1 NT	4	3	2	4	2
45	55	USma	Vincent Harackiewicz	2	4	4	2	4	X
46	55	ID	Dayle Gilliatt	2	4	4	2	4 NT	2
47	55	IN	Govindarajan Srinivasan	2	4	4	2	4	2
48	55	USil	James Hudson	2	4	3	2	4	4
49	55	EE	Meelis Tiitson	2	4	4	2	4	2
50	55	RU	Leonid Ulanovsky	3	4	3	2	4	4
51	55	JP	Mark LaForge	2	4	4	P	4	2
52	55	USmd	Christopher Miller	1 NT	4	4	2	4	4
53	55	TR	Aydin Gursel	2	4	4	2	4	2
54	55	NL	Micha Keijzers	2	5	3	X	4	2
55	55	CAsk	Jim Graham	2	4	4	2	4 NT	2
56	55	USaz	Beverly Terry	1 NT	5	3	2	4	2
57	55	USfl	Mabel Pavlicek	3	4	3	2	4	4
58	55	USca	Andy Lewis	1 NT	4	3	2	4	2
59	55	CAon	Judi Carter	2	4	4	2	4 NT	2
60	55	USca	Jeff Goldsmith	2	4	3	2	4	4
61	55	UStx	Robert Sparks	2	4	4	2	4	X
62	55	FI	Tero Koivu	3	4	4	2	4	2
63	55	USca	Tim Prince	3	5	4	X	4	2
64	55	SI	Janko Mijoc	2	TB	3	2	4	2
65	55	HU	Imre Csiszar	2	TB	3	2	4	2
66	55	HR	Vedran Zoric	2	5	4	2	4	2
67	55	USca	Tom McGuire	3	4	3	2	4	4
68	55	UKen	Michael Scanlon	2	5	4	2	4	2
69	55	UKen	Barry Goodman	2	5	4	2	4	2
70	55	AU	Robert Wong	2	4	4	2	4 NT	2
71	54	UKen	Jonathan Jacobs	1 NT	5	3	2	4	2
72	54	USny	Jack Presser	2	4	3	2	4	2
73	54	USwa	Josh Sinnett	2	4	3	P	4	2
74	54	USca	Michael Moss	3	4	4	2	4 NT	2
75	54	USny	Greg Lawler	3	4	3	2	4	4
76	54	USma	Steve Stein	1 NT	4	4	2	4	2
77	54	USnj	Dirk Enthoven	2	TB	4	2	4	2
78	54	UKen	Ben Cowling	1 NT	4	3	2	4	4
79	54	UKen	Andy Holland	2	5	4	2	4	2
80	54	USny	Gerald Cohen	2	4	3	2	4	2
81	54	UKen	Ian Payn	2	5	3	2	4	4
82	54	UKen	Gordon Rainsford	2	4	4	X	4	2
83	54	CAns	Bryson Crowell	2	5	3	2	4	4
84	54	USca	Betsy Marcus	3	4	3	2	4	4
85	54	EE	Marek Pontus	1 NT	4	4	2	4	2
86	54	NL	Bas Lodder	1 NT	4	3	2	4	4
87	54	UKen	Dave Maeer	2	5	3	2	4	2
88	54	IN	Anil Upadhyay	1 NT	4	3	2	4	4
89	54	USca	Tysen Streib	2	4	4	2	4	X
90	54	UKen	Peter Kay	1 NT	4	4	P	4	2
91	54	USca	John R. Mayne	1 NT	4	4	2	4	2
92	54	USnv	Richard Coates	2 NT	4	4	2	4	2
93	54	USin	Brian Ross	2	TB	3	2	4	2
94	54	USwi	Rich Dorfman	3	4	3	2	4	2
95	54	USaz	Max Johnson	2	4	3	2	4	2
96	54	CAbc	Suzanne Kilfoyle	2 NT	4	4	2	4	2
97	54	USga	Larry Hayslip	3	TB	3	2	4	2
98	54	PT	Rodrigo Cunha	1 NT	4	3	2	4	4
99	54	CApq	Peter Schwartz	3	5	3	X	4	2
100	54	AU	Bill Jacobs	1 NT	4	3	X	4	2

Scores 7W55 Main Challenge

Analyses Top September 2001 Scores

Places 101-200

Rank	Score	LC	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6
101	54	USmi	James Hacker	2	4	4	2	4	2
102	54	CAmb	Mike Gillis	2	5	4	2	4 NT	2
103	54	CAon	Pieter Geerkens	2	4	3	2	4	2
104	54	USga	Joy Harris	3	4	4	2	4	X
105	54	UStx	Jerry Bigler	2	4	3	2	4	2
106	54	USnc	Everett Dyer	2 NT	4	4	2	4	2
107	54	PL	Darek Kardas	2	4	3	P	4	2
108	54	FR	Michel Mayeur	2	4	3	X	4	4
109	54	IT	Daniela Tonti	2	4	4	X	4	2
110	54	RO	George Eckstein	3	4	3	2	4	2
111	54	TW	Lemon Chiou	2	TB	4	X	4	2
112	54	USdc	Stephen Rose	2 NT	4	4	2	4	2
113	54	PL	Wojtek Siwiec	2	4	3	P	4	2
114	54	CN	Weidong Yang	1 NT	4	3	2	4	4
115	53	USca	Marvin French	1 NT	4	3	X	4	2
116	53	IT	Giovanni Bobbio	1 NT	4	4	X	4	4
117	53	IN	Tapas Banerji	2	TB	4	P	4	2
118	53	USak	Gordon Bower	3	5	3	2	4	4
119	53	USny	Barry Rigal	1 NT	4	3	2	4	2
120	53	HK	Tommy Cho	1 NT	4	3	2	4	2
121	53	BE	Sebastien Louveaux	2	4	3	X	4	4
122	53	CAon	Larry Gifford	2	4	3	2	4	2
123	53	UKen	Neil Morgenstern	2	TB	4	2	4	2
124	53	UStx	Herbert Wilton	3	TB	4	X	4	2
125	53	RO	Bogdan Vulcan	3	4	4	2	4	X
126	53	DE	Rainer Herrmann	3	4	3	P	4	2
127	53	USmd	Joe Botkin	3	4	4	2	4	2
128	53	IN	Arpan Banerjee	2	4	3	2	4	X
129	53	AU	Matthew Porter	1 NT	4	4	2	4 NT	2
130	53	FR	Jacques Normand	2	4	3	2	4	X
131	53	USca	Ron Jacksier	2	4	4	X	4	2
132	53	AU	Bill Haughie	1 NT	4	3	2	4	4
133	53	USil	Mark Ganzer	3	5	3	2	4	4
134	53	CAon	Jack Brown	2	4	3	2	4 NT	2
135	53	USil	Jonathan Fry	3	4	4	2	4	X
136	53	USco	David Caprera	1 NT	4	3	2	4	2
137	53	USfl	Jeanni Blume	2	4	3	2	4	X
138	53	USca	Yu Chang	2	4	3	2	4	2
139	53	USca	Ruthanne Williams	3	4	3	2	4	2
140	53	USca	Tony Melucci	3	5	4	2	4 NT	2
141	53	NO	Christian Vennerod	2	4	4	2	4	2
142	53	USfl	William Slepin	2	4	3	2	4	2
143	53	TR	Dineyri Ispati	2 NT	5	4	2	4	2
144	53	SE	Andreas Westerlund	2	TB	4	2	4	2
145	53	USny	Nicholas France	3	4	4	2	4	2
146	53	UKni	Robin Burns	2	4	3	2	4	X
147	53	PL	Marcin Przywitowski	2	TB	3	2	4	4
148	53	USca	Rich Pavlicek	2	5	3	P	4	2
149	53	USca	Michael Day	1 NT	5	3	X	4	2
150	53	UKsc	Steve Ramsden	3	5	3	2	4	4
151	53	USny	William Bascom	2	5	4	2	4	X
152	53	SI	Bojan Ambroz	2	TB	4	2	4	2
153	53	CAon	Frieda Horning	2	4	4	X	4 NT	2
154	53	CH	Olivier La Spada	2	5	3	2	4	2
155	53	RO	Horia Garbea	2	4	3	2	4 NT	2
156	53	USca	Milton Spinner	3	5	3	2	4	4
157	52	USsc	Al Kimel	3	4	3	2	4	X
158	52	USdc	Jonathan Siegel	3	4	4	P	4	4
159	52	FR	Andrei Varlan	2	5	3	2	4	X
160	52	ES	Raimon Tatxe	2	5	3	X	4	2
161	52	UKen	Alan Wilson	1 NT	4	3	X	4	4
162	52	UKen	David Nolland	3	4	4	2	4	2
163	52	USca	Phil Clayton	2 NT	4	3	2	4	2
164	52	UKen	Ryan Stephenson	2 NT	4	4	X	4	2
165	52	DE	Ulrich Voigt	1 NT	5	3	2	4	2
166	52	CAab	Dick Yuen	3	4	3	2	4 NT	2
167	52	CAon	Maher Saleh	1 NT	4	4	2	4	X
168	52	USmd	Jerrold Miller	1 NT	TB	3	2	4	2
169	52	EG	Andrew de Sosa	3	4	3	P	4	2
170	52	USaz	Larry Watson	3	4	4	2	4 NT	4
171	52	SE	Bjorn Ahlm	1 NT	5	3	2	4	2
172	52	IT	Paolo Paolicchi	2 NT	4	3	2	4	2
173	52	USdc	Ron Zucker	2 NT	5	4	2	4	2
174	52	USca	John Hoffman	3	4	4	P	4	4
175	52	CAbc	Merv Adey	2	5	3	2	4	X
176	52	USfl	Mark Smith	3	4	3	2	4 NT	2
177	52	UKen	Paul Hankin	2	4	4	X	4	X
178	52	USca	Dan Hugh-Jones	3	5	4	X	4	2
179	52	USca	Michael Migdol	3	4	3	2	4	X
180	52	USfl	Doris Savoy	3	4	3	2	4 NT	2
181	52	BR	Adriano Rodrigues	2	4	4	P	4	2
182	52	CH	John Weisweiler	2	4	4	2	4	2
183	52	USor	Todd Anderson	2	TB	4	2	4	X
184	52	IN	Krishna Chakravartula	1 NT	4	3	2	4	2
185	52	IT	Felice Cupane	2	2	4	X	4	2
186	52	USma	Jonathan Weinstein	2	4	3	X	4	2
187	52	AU	Charles Page	3	4	4	X	4 NT	2
188	52	CN	Ligang Ling	3	4	4	1 NT	4	2
189	52	USri	Evelyn Recchia	1 NT	TB	3	2	4	2
190	52	IN	Manoj Kumar Nair	2	5	3 NT	2	4	2
191	52	SE	Anders Aslund	1 NT	4	3	P	4	2
192	52	CAon	Malcolm Ewashkiw	2	4	3	2	4	X
193	51	USnh	Lance Ribeiro	2 NT	4	3	2	4	2
194	51	USny	Gerry Wildenberg	3	5	4	2	4	4
195	51	UKen	Michael Clark	1 NT	4	3	P	4	2
196	51	USil	Will Engel	3	5	4	1 NT	4	2
197	51	USca	Harold Simon	2	TB	4	2	4	4
198	51	ZA	Gundi Fritzsche	2	4	4	2	4 NT	2
199	51	USca	Bill Cubley	1 NT	2	4	2	4	2
200	51	USca	Henry Hsieh	2 NT	4	3	2	4	2

Scores 7W55 Main Challenge

Analyses Top September 2001 Scores

Places 201-300

Rank	Score	LC	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6
201	51	USma	Leo Zelevinsky	2	4	3	2	4	2
202	51	USnc	Ron Marrs	3	5	4	X	4 NT	2
203	51	NL	Foppe Hemminga	2	4	3	2	4	2
204	51	IN	Seeni Vasagan	1 NT	5	3	P	4	2
205	51	IL	Yoram Bavli	1 NT	4	3	X	4	2
206	51	AU	Gary Brown	1 NT	4	4	2	4	2
207	51	USmn	Jack Rhatigan	3	TB	4	2	4	X
208	51	USfl	John Jones	2	4	3	2	4	2
209	51	USca	Sandy Barnes	2	4	4	P	4	2
210	51	USfl	Terri Fauci	2	4	3	X	4 NT	2
211	51	AU	Paul Sherman	2	4	3	X	4 NT	2
212	51	UStn	Janice Bruce	2 NT	4	3	2	4	2
213	51	USin	John Clark	2 NT	5	4	2	4	4
214	51	USil	Kent Feiler	2	5	3	X	4	2
215	51	IN	Sriram Narasimhan	1 NT	4	3	P	4	2
216	51	USny	Leonard Brum	3	5	3	2	4 NT	2
217	51	PT	Manuel Paulo	2	5	3	1 NT	4	2
218	51	USoh	Craig Satersmoen	3	5	4	2	4	4
219	51	USmo	Kit Nowicki	2	4	4	2	4	2
220	51	CAab	Daniel Bertrand	2	2	4	2	4	2
221	51	NO	Svein Erik Dahl	2	4	4	2	4	X
222	50	USca	Len Vishnevsky	3	4	3	1 NT	4	2
223	50	USca	Steve Mager	3	4	3	P	4	4
224	50	USoh	Craig Biddle	3	TB	4	2	4	X
225	50	UStx	Leah Cohen	2 NT	4	3	X	4	2
226	50	CAbc	Ross Lam	3	4	3	1 NT	4	2
227	50	USnc	Robert Tamlyn	2	4	3	X	4	4
228	50	USor	Duane Christensen	2	4	3	2	4	2
229	50	AR	Raul Martino	3	5	4	2	4	5
230	50	RO	Radu Blejeru	2	5	3	P	4	4
231	50	TR	Onur Ertekin	1 NT	5	3	2	4	X
232	50	HU	Istvan Fay	2	4	4	2	4 NT	X
233	50	USca	Daniel Harting	3	5	3	1 NT	4	2
234	50	USco	Evelyn Ber	2	4	4	2	4 NT	X
235	50	USca	Michael Kaplan	1 NT	5	3	2	4	X
236	50	USca	Patricia Banks	3	4	3	1 NT	4	2
237	50	USnj	Leonard Helfgott	3	5	3	X	4	2
238	50	UStx	Albert Sekac	1 NT	4	4	P	4	2
239	50	BE	Luc Segers	2	TB	4	2	4	2
240	50	SG	Gary Ang	3	4	3	2	4 NT	4
241	50	USia	William Campbell	2	4	3	2	4	5
242	50	USca	Charles Thompson	2 NT	4	3	X	4	2
243	50	USca	Jack Scott	2	4	4	X	4	4
244	50	AU	David Stern	1 NT	TB	3	X	4	2
245	50	USmn	Irwin Boris	2	5	3	2	4	6
246	50	USca	Martin Hertz	3	4	3	2	4 NT	4
247	50	TR	Kaan Aydin	1 NT	4	3	2	4	6
248	50	CAon	Sheila McDonald	1 NT	4	3	X	4	2
249	50	SE	Roger Karlsson	1 NT	5	3	2	4 NT	2
250	50	IN	Kaustubh Bendre	3	TB	4	2	4	4
251	50	CAns	Elianor Kennie	2	5	4	2	4 NT	2
252	50	CI	Bernard Pascal	2	5	3	2	4	5
253	50	USnc	Dale Swift	3	4	3	2	4 NT	4
254	50	RO	Daniel Moisa	2	5	4	2	4	X
255	50	USmn	David Neiman	2	4	3	2	4 NT	2
256	50	FI	Erkki Malkamaki	1 NT	5	3	2	4 NT	2
257	50	NL	Thijs Veugen	3	4	3	X	4	X
258	50	UStx	Thomas Peters	2	4	3	2	4	2
259	50	TW	I-Don Jien	2	5	4	X	4	2
260	50	RU	Alex Perlin	3	4	4	2	4	2
261	49	NL	Wim van Roon	1 NT	4	3	2	4 NT	4
262	49	USny	Bill Scherer	3	4	4	X	4	5
263	49	UKen	Philip Smith	2 NT	4	4	2	4 NT	2
264	49	USal	Bob Simkins	3	2	3	2	4	4
265	49	RS	Zoran Radojcic	2 NT	4	4	2	4 NT	2
266	49	IN	Ramaratnam Krishnan	2	5	3	2	4 NT	2
267	49	CAbc	Brad Bart	1 NT	5	4	P	4	2
268	49	CAns	Gerald Murphy	2	TB	4	2	4	2
269	49	USny	Franco Baseggio	1 NT	4	3	2	4	6
270	49	USca	Marina Fomenkova	2 NT	TB	3	2	4	2
271	49	CAbc	David Hooey	2	4	3	2	4 NT	2
272	49	CAab	David Johnson	2	TB	3	2	4	X
273	49	IN	Neelotpal Sahai	2	TB	4	2	4	2
274	49	USny	Chris Willenken	2	4	3	X	4	2
275	49	USma	Richard Willey	2 NT	TB	3	2	4	2
276	49	USca	Neill Currie	1 NT	4	3	2	4	5
277	49	USct	Marc Glickman	2 NT	5	3	X	4	2
278	49	UStx	Phillip Jaeger	3	4	3	2	4	5
279	49	USmn	Mike Cassel	2	4	3	P	4 NT	2
280	49	US	Dave Chen	1 NT	4	3	2	4	6
281	49	IT	Franco Galleni	3	5	3	X	4	X
282	49	USmi	Howard Abrams	2	TB	4	2	4	2
283	49	PL	Arek Kulawik	2 NT	TB	3	2	4	2
284	49	USca	Stu Goodgold	2	5	3	2	4	2
285	49	NO	Magnus Skaar	2 NT	5	4	2	4	2
286	49	NL	Peter van Montfoort	2	5	4	P	4	4
287	49	USfl	Marilyn Goldsmith	2 NT	4	4	2	4	X
288	49	USfl	Lee Elton	3	4	4	2	4 NT	X
289	49	NL	Martha Messchendorp	3	4	4	2	4 NT	2
290	49	CAbc	Samuel Krikler	2 NT	4	4	2	4 NT	2
291	49	USva	John Montgomery	2	4	3	2	4 NT	2
292	49	USca	Randy Potter	2 NT	4	4	2	4 NT	2
293	49	IN	Arvind Ranasaria	3	5	3	2	4	5
294	49	SE	Dick Andersson	3	5	4	2	4 NT	2
295	48	USil	Bruce Scott	3	4	3	1 NT	4	4
296	48	NL	Rosalind Hengeveld	3	4	4	X	4	X
297	48	BE	Luc Vandenberghe	2	5	4	X	4 NT	2
298	48	DK	Lars Moller Sorensen	3	4	4	2	4	6
299	48	UStx	Mike Oliver	2	4	4	2	4	X
300	48	UKen	John Reardon	1 NT	5	3	P	4	2

Scores 7W55 Main Challenge

Analyses Top September 2001 Scores

All Others Above Average

Rank	Score	LC	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6
301	48	AU	Peter Gill	2	4	4	X	4 NT	2
302	48	UK	Tom Tobin	3	4	4	1 NT	4 NT	2
303	48	TR	Ufuk Cotuk	2	4	4	X	4 NT	2
304	48	USca	Vic Sartor	2	4	3	2	4	X
305	48	AU	Sartaj Hans	3	4	3	X	4 NT	4
306	48	USme	Alan Goff	2	4	3	2	4	6
307	48	DK	Jens Sorensen	3	3	4	2	4	2
308	48	US	Dave Scott	1 NT	TB	3	X	4	2
309	48	UKen	Gareth Birdsall	2 NT	4	3	X	4	4
310	48	NO	Jan Langoy	1 NT	5	3	2	4 NT	4
311	48	CAbc	Mike Hargreaves	3	4	3	2	5	2
312	48	IN	Banushankar Kalyanan	2	3	4	2	4 NT	2
313	48	HR	Aljosa Cakic	2 NT	5	3	2	4	2
314	48	IE	James Heneghan	2	5	3	X	4 NT	4
315	48	SE	Bengt-Eric Fredriksson	2	TB	3	X	4 NT	2
316	48	USnj	Mark Vogel	2	5	4	X	4	2
317	48	USnc	Richard Paul	1 NT	5	4	P	4 NT	2
318	48	USfl	Bob Bernhard	3	3	3	2	4	4
319	48	EE	Allar Padari	3	4	4	2	4	X
320	48	AR	Gerardo Malazdrewicz	2	5	3	2	5	2
321	48	UStx	Coleen Palmer	2	4	4	2	4 NT	5
322	48	USca	Phillip Mackler	2 NT	4	4	2	4	X
323	48	USms	Michele Holm	1 NT	4	3	2	4 NT	2
324	48	USnc	Toby Weinstein	3	5	3	X	4	X
325	48	CAns	Del Knox	2	5	4	2	4	2
326	48	USwa	Marsha Rayton	3	4	4	1 NT	4 NT	2
327	48	SI	Jure Vehovec	2	4	3	2	4	6
328	48	FR	Jean-Claude Duong	1 NT	4	3	X	4	X
329	48	USak	Rick Kelly	2	5	3	X	4	4
330	48	DE	Hans Fleischhack	2	TB	4 NT	2	4	2
331	48	USmd	Rex Settle	1 NT	5	3	1 NT	4	2
332	48	USnc	Ed Harris	3	TB	3	2	4	X
333	48	HU	Mate Mraz	2 NT	4	4	2	4	4
334	48	TW	Ah-Chen Huang	2	TB	4	X	4	2
335	48	USpa	Steve White	2	4	3	2	4	X
336	48	USmt	Bruce Cook	3	5	4 NT	2	4	2

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Scores 7W55 Main Challenge

Analyses Top September 2001 Scores

Location Ranking

This table lists all the participating locations, ranked by the average score of their entries. The “Best” column shows the best finish (by rank) of any player in that location. Locations with less than five entries are ineligible for the top ranking and grouped separately.

Rank	Average	Best	LC	Location	Entries
1	51.20	31	USmn	Minnesota	5
2	50.83	40	PL	Poland	6
3	50.17	4	USwa	Washington	6
4	49.78	3	USnc	North Carolina	9
5	49.60	35	USga	Georgia	5
6	49.56	13	USmd	Maryland	9
7	49.13	144	SE	Sweden	8
8	48.60	6	UKen	England	35
9	48.60	19	US	United States	5
10	48.55	7	CAon	Ontario	22
11	48.25	45	USma	Massachusetts	8
12	48.17	9	USmi	Michigan	6
13	48.17	141	NO	Norway	6
14	48.15	33	USca	California	59
15	48.06	72	USny	New York	17
16	48.00	48	USil	Illinois	10
17	47.90	16	IT	Italy	10
18	47.90	96	CAbc	British Columbia	10
19	47.83	32	NL	Netherlands	18
20	47.77	2	IN	India	31
21	47.42	24	TW	Taiwan	12
22	47.30	39	RO	Romania	10
23	47.29	64	SI	Slovenia	7
24	46.69	5	USfl	Florida	26
25	46.50	38	TR	Turkey	12
26	46.40	166	CAab	Alberta	5
27	46.19	61	UStx	Texas	16
28	46.17	66	HR	Croatia	6
29	45.37	1	AU	Australia	30
30	45.29	121	BE	Belgium	7
31	45.20	26	DE	Germany	10
32	45.00	150	UKsc	Scotland	6
33	44.80	157	USsc	South Carolina	5
34	44.63	83	CAns	Nova Scotia	8
35	44.20	357	NZ	New Zealand	5

Rank	Average	Best	LC	Location	Entries
36	55.00	46	ID	Indonesia	1
37	55.00	55	CAsk	Saskatchewan	1
38	54.00	94	USwi	Wisconsin	1
39	54.00	99	CApq	Quebec	1
40	54.00	102	CAmb	Manitoba	1
41	53.67	56	USaz	Arizona	3
42	53.50	11	USva	Virginia	2
43	53.50	34	USdc	Washington DC	4
44	53.00	146	UKni	Northern Ireland	1
45	52.50	98	PT	Portugal	2
46	52.33	49	EE	Estonia	3
47	52.00	36	USnj	New Jersey	4
48	52.00	169	EG	Egypt	1
49	52.00	189	USri	Rhode Island	1
50	51.75	108	FR	France	4
51	51.00	28	USnh	New Hampshire	3
52	51.00	65	HU	Hungary	3
53	51.00	183	USor	Oregon	2
54	51.00	212	UStn	Tennessee	1
55	51.00	219	USmo	Missouri	1
56	50.50	118	USak	Alaska	2
57	50.00	114	CN	China	3
58	50.00	241	USia	Iowa	1
59	50.00	252	CI	Cote d’Ivoire	1
60	49.50	10	CH	Switzerland	4
61	49.50	181	BR	Brazil	2
62	49.00	51	JP	Japan	2
63	49.00	229	AR	Argentina	2
64	49.00	265	RS	Serbia	1
65	48.75	62	FI	Finland	4
66	48.67	50	RU	Russia	3
67	48.33	218	USoh	Ohio	3
68	48.00	198	ZA	South Africa	2
69	48.00	302	UK	United Kingdom	1
70	48.00	306	USme	Maine	1
71	48.00	335	USpa	Pennsylvania	1
72	48.00	336	USmt	Montana	1
73	47.00	350	CL	Chile	1
74	47.00	361	LV	Latvia	1
75	46.75	93	USin	Indiana	4
76	46.67	160	ES	Spain	3
77	46.50	92	USnv	Nevada	2
78	46.33	240	SG	Singapore	3
79	46.33	298	DK	Denmark	3
80	46.00	205	IL	Israel	2
81	46.00	379	USnd	North Dakota	1
82	46.00	383	TN	Tunisia	1
83	45.50	120	HK	Hong Kong	2
84	45.50	136	USco	Colorado	4
85	45.00	264	USal	Alabama	2
86	45.00	402	USde	Delaware	1
87	45.00	404	USwv	West Virginia	1
88	44.00	314	IE	Ireland	3
89	44.00	414	USnm	New Mexico	1
90	43.00	323	USms	Mississippi	2
91	43.00	438	AT	Austria	1
92	43.00	451	BG	Bulgaria	1
93	42.00	277	USct	Connecticut	2
94	42.00	455	USky	Kentucky	1
95	42.00	463	IS	Iceland	1
96	41.00	478	USla	Louisiana	1
97	41.00	485	UKwa	Wales	1
98	37.50	514	USok	Oklahoma	2
99	37.00	534	BS	Bahamas	1
100	36.00	480	CA	Canada	2
101	36.00	545	USne	Nebraska	1
102	34.50	446	GR	Greece	2

Scores 7W55 Main Challenge

Analyses Top September 2001 Scores

Bot’s Eye View

I posed these bidding problems to some of the well-known bridge computer programs, and the results are tabulated below. (These results are not included in the “number of participants” shown above, nor in the calculation of the median or average score.) Most of the programs had different skill settings (thinking time), and this was set to the highest level. The scores and rankings, based on six specific problems, are not necessarily indicative of each program’s overall capability.

Congratulations to Bridge Buff, which eked out a narrow win, aided somewhat by my scoring generosity. On Problem 1 its off-the-chart 4 bid actually deserved zero, but my policy is not to award less than the worst option listed since the poll was multiple choice. (Obviously, if the bots understood this they would choose one of the listed calls.) Bridge Buff is certainly on a roll, as it also won my play contest last month.

The bot results in general were poor compared to my previous bidding polls; not even one came close to average. Evidently, these were tough problems. At least HAL was consistent.

September 2001 Rankings

Rank	Score	LC	Program version	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	41	CA	Bridge Buff 8.0	4	4	4	2	4 NT	2
2	40	UK	Blue Chip Bridge 3.4.3	3	3	4	2	4 NT	4
3	39	US	GIB 4.1.12	2 NT	4	4	2	4	2
4	37	US	Bridge Baron 11.0	3	2	4	1 NT	4 NT	2
5	37	DE	Q-plus Bridge 6.1	2	3	4	X	6	2
6	35	JP	Micro Bridge 9.01	2	2	4	2	4 NT	X
7	34	US	Finesse Bridge 2.5	4	2	3	2	6	2
8	14	US	HAL 9000	2 NT	P	4 NT	1 NT	5	P

Bots Tested (alphabetical)

Program	Author/Creator
Blue Chip Bridge	Ian Trackman and Mike Whittaker
Bridge Baron	Tom Throop and Stephen Smith
Bridge Buff	Doug Bennion
Finesse Bridge	Mark and Aaron Marin
GIB	Matthew Ginsberg
HAL	Someone with a warped mind
Micro Bridge	Tomio and Yumiko Uchida
Q-plus Bridge	Hans Leber

Scores 7W55 Main Challenge

Analyses Top September 2001 Scores

© 2001 Richard Pavlicek