In partenza la Yeh Bridge World Cup Cos’hanno in comune Maria Teresa Lavazza, esponente della famiglia proprietaria del marchio italiano leader del caffè, e Zeng Peiyan, già Vice Ministro cinese dell’economia e attuale Segretario Generale dell’Asian Economic...

Artificial Intelligence & Probability The concept that machines can be creative is a strange one. In the 19th century, the scientific community lost faith in humans’ ability to be objective. New scientific methods were invented in order to circumvent our reliance...

The March of Time Back in 1936, Ely & Josephine Culbertson played a match in New York against South American players. Nothing unusual in that you might imagine, but their opponents were sitting in a club in Buenos Aires, 8521 kilometres away! The plays were...

Rise of the Machines The fascination with machines that can outperform us has been around for a long time. In 1770  early entrepreneur  Wolfgang von Kempelen created what appeared to be a chess playing machine – a large box upon which a chess board sat, the...

Bob Hamman in a Nutshell Last month Bob Hamman won the World Senior Team Championship in Wroclaw, Poland, his 30th medal in World Championship play. He grew up in Southern California. At an early age he started playing chess and various card games. Before getting...

How a $5,000,000 loss turned into a $5,000,000 gain Don’t worry about losing $5,000,000 SCA Promotions, the Dallas based sports underwriting company based in Dallas owned by the World’s number 1 ranked Bridge player, Bob Hamman insures organizations...

 Bridge for Peace While the USA & China dispute supremacy in the Pacific region, an on-line bridge match will be held between 31 October & 2 November between an American team ‘led’ by Bill Gates and a Chinese team containing many high-level...

YEH ONLINE BRIDGE WORLD CUP We now know the exact composition of the teams who will contest the first Yeh Online World Cup, 31 October – 2 November 2016 under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation. Team Europe-Lavazza (based in Turin at the headquarters of...