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Aug. 2012 World Computer Bridge Championship
The 16th World Computer Bridge Championship was held August 17-22, 2012 at the WBF's 14th World Bridge Games, part of the 2nd World Mind Sport Games in Lille, France. This year's World Computer Bridge Championship was supported by the ACBL. Al Levy, a member of the ACBL Board of Directors, is the creator of the World Computer Bridge Championship and acted as the organizer and coordinator of this year's event.

Eight computer programs from around the world competed in the 16th ACBL World Computer Bridge Championship.

  • Bridge Baron (United States), Stephen Smith & Jason Rosenfeld, Great Game Products.
  • Jack (The Netherlands), Hans Kuijf & Wim Heemskerk & Martin Pattenier, Kuijf & Kuijf Software.
  • Micro Bridge (Japan), Tomio Uchida & Yumiko Uchida.
  • Moose Bridge (United States), Pete Boton.
  • Q-Plus Bridge (Germany), Johannes Leber, Q Plus Software.
  • Robo Bridge (The Netherlands), Job Scheffers
  • Shark Bridge (Denmark), John Norris (operated by Gerard Joyez)
  • WBridge5 (France), Yves Costel

Results (2012 Lille)
The event started with the eight participants playing a 32-board round robin. The top four programs from the round robin played a 64-board semifinal match and the winners played a 64-board final.

Round Robin results (WBF 25VP scale)
                 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8  Total Rank
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1.Jack           X  25  16  25  25  11  19  25   146    1
2.Micro Bridge   5   X  25  16  22  20  24  25   135(*) 2
3.WBridge5      14   0   X  17  19  25  25  25   125    3
4.Q-Plus         3  14  13   X  15  16  25  25   111    4
5.Bridge Baron   3   8  11  15   X  21  24  25   107    5
6.Shark Bridge  19  10   3  14   9   X  18  25    98    6
7.Robo Bridge   11   6   3   5   6  12   X  25    68    7
8.Moose Bridge   5   5   0   0   0   0   4   X    14    8
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Semifinal match
64 boards plus carryover from 32-board round robin match
(head-to-head VP difference or their overall VP difference)

               Carry  Boards
Program        Over   1-16 17-32 33-48 49-64   Total
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Jack            22      44    48    43    32    189
Q-plus           0      23    34    38    21    116
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Micro Bridge    10(*)   40    43    17    51    161
WBridge5         0      52    55    28    27    162
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(*) This total is not correct. Correct toal is 137
    and the carry over for Micro Bridge should be 12.
    This means Micro Bridge won the semi-final.
    But I found this error September 6, 2012.
    It was too late to change the results.

Final match
64 boards plus carryover from 32-board round robin match
(head-to-head VP difference or their overall VP difference)

               Carry  Boards
Program        Over   1-16 17-32 33-48 49-64   Total
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Jack             2      23    55    25    48     153
Wbridge5         0      57    22    24    44     147
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