Welcome to Bridge Nerd

Hi, I'm Geoff Davies, a retired professor of physics who started playing duplicate bridge as a teenager and sixty plus years later I'm still hooked. As a physicist, I was taught computer programming so putting the two things together seemed only natural.  Computers can't do everything but they can answer questions such as: "If you have a fit in both majors is it better to play in the 5-3 fit or the 4-4 fit?" by simply dealing lots of random hands and analysing how many tricks can be made playing in the 5-3 fit or the 4-4 fit.

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My early posts give examples of probability questions that computers can handle. If you have similar questions, I'd love to hear from you. You can contact me from the footer bar.   While there, subscribe to my blog to get notification of new posts which tend to be more general bridge articles.  You can also click here to read my monthly reports on the Cheddar & Wedmore Bridge Club's activities which also contain discussions of interesting hands.