These are Bridge tournaments featuring Robot-play where a human plays against software robots.
This has proved very popular elsewhere and the various companies (known as ‘providers’ ) offering this have asked that if there was some form of WBF Master Point recognition in order to increase participation.
The WBF will not be running these tournaments themselves, but will provide a fully automated on-line system for the submission of results and point allocation as well as generating Rankings and Titles.
This automated system is currently running in Beta and will obviously improve and evolve.
There will be a new range of rankings to encourage play. Instead of just an overall ranking there will now be:
The links to these new Rankings are at rankinglinks.aspx
Mark Newton WBF Master Point Secretary