Shark Bridge 1.8
by John and
Merete
Vermehren
Norris
Shark Bridge was written by John Norris from Denmark. Somewhere around 1995 John started the program as a pure bidding program, which he wrote for fun. Then the program was laid on ice between 1997 and 2001 when he was busy with his newborn twin daughters. Starting 2001 the play part was added to the program to be put to the test against the other bridge programs for the first time in 2006. Today the development of Shark Bridge is a joint venture between John L'Atelier D'Ema and Extensa Development.
In 2009 and 2010 it won the individual event at World Computer Bridge Championship and in 2011 and 2014 Shark won the team event. The competitive success is credited to the human like style of play. That same human like play, makes it very enjoyable and challenging practice companion. Shark Bridge is for the casual player as well as the experts.
John Norris is semi-professional bridge player and Danish bridge champion, he created Shark Bridge to practice against a strong computer robots.
Available on
> IPad and Iphone (available on Apple Store)
> Windows.
> Mac
Demo for IPhone & IPad is available on Apple App store.
John attended Christine Gouldens bot championship in 2023 with version 2.1.It did well and came on the 2nd palace in the round robin, but was knocked out in the semifinal against Q-Plus Bridge. 15.3
PowerShark 2024, the new name on Shark Bridge, attended Machine vs Machine 2024 arranged by the owner of this Site. PowerShark reached the final but lost vs the old Champion WBridge5. More info on this page.
PowerShark is used as robot on the Online Site World Bridge Tour Online. It has been renamed