Living for the last 20 years in Lanaja, a small village in Aragón of around 1,000 inhabitants, I have learnt how to survive without people to play Bridge with – first by writing a program to play Bridge, and then taking advantage of that program to develop this new Bridge Bidding System.
This new Bridge Bidding System has been written over a number of years, and released amid the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020. Inauspicious beginnings, no doubt. But maybe with more people stuck at home, Bridge may have a resurgence.The idea behind the system was to provide one by which a computer could play Bridge, and where both the written documentation and subsequent computer code could be easily understood.
This Bridge Bidding System was been written in python3, and within an environment designed to facilitate that process. That environment, itself written in python3 and PyQt5, allows the play and replay of hands, the import/export of hands created using the Portable Bridge Notation (i.e PBN files), hand construction (called Cobbling), so that any bridge bidding system can be thoroughly bench-tested, or you can just play Bridge.
The images of cards dealt and bids made throughout the documentation are real screen dumps of the examples as bid and played within GYFHDM, which can be purchased separately.