Robots vs Best Players: Zenith and December's Stars & Platinum Event

This month, we set out to evaluate the capabilities of the various bridge robots used or developed on BBO. To do this we expanded our usual robot simulations, where BBO's GIB robots compete against real players in daylong games, to include two highly competitive events: December's Stars and Platinum Robot Individual, and one of BBO's Zenith Daylongs.

In the first simulation, five different robots replayed the December Stars & Platinum Robot Individual to assess their performance against human players. The participating robots were:

  1. GIB Advanced
  2. GIB Basic
  3. Argine Advanced
  4. Argine Basic
  5. "ACBL-Ben", a variant of Lorand Dali's "Ben" robot, trained with GIB for bidding and ACBL human game hands for play.

The results were intriguing, demonstrating that the robots are formidable players, even against strong human competition. Click here for the full leaderboard.

Results

Rank    Score (%)Robot Type  
60/618  56.30    GIB Advanced
93/618  55.23    Argine      
123/618  54.29    GIB Basic  
232/618  51.42    Argine Basic
486/618  39.47    ACBL Ben    
Robot results from December's Stars and Platinum

Join the BBO Forums discussion about this experiment here.

In the subsequent Zenith Daylong Reward simulation, we introduced "Thinking Ben," another robot variation "trained" by Lorand Dali, to the robot lineup.

Results

For the full leaderboard click here. Here's a summary:

RankScore (%)Robot Type
522/1,67253.91GIB Advanced
646/1,67252.58GIB Basic
795/1,67250.96Argine
861/1,67250.32Thinking Ben (ACBL)
1,016/1,67248.38Argine basic
1,232/1,67245.64Fast Ben
Robot results from the Zenith Daylong on December 10

To join the ongoing discussion and learn about the evolution of this experiment, click here.

Stay tuned for more information on robot development, Fast Ben, Thinking Ben, Lorand Dali and other exciting experiments.

2 comments on “Robots vs Best Players: Zenith and December's Stars & Platinum Event”

  1. In the world of bridge, if a partner is hiding information, that's not good. if the enemy is hiding information, TD can punish him. BBO, would you be so kind as to write down the name of the robot that is on the table. Also would you kind to give us a complete system and style gibs play by robots name. Thanks.

  2. Who bots were playing against when replaying these two tourneys? Against other bots? If yes, the whole experiment shows very little

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