Fred Gitelman is best known as one of the creators of Bridge Base Online and its predecessor, Bridge Base Inc., which produced some of the best and most important educational software of the ’90s. Fred retired from top-level tournament bridge in 2019, but during his heyday he and Brad Moss were one of the top pairs in the world, winning the 2010 Rosenblum world championship and several national titles. Fred is a deep thinker about the game, and has been tremendously influential to modern bridge.
In this episode, Fred talks about what separates the 10 or 20 really elite players from everyone else (07:00) and how he used VuGraph to learn from and scout his opponents (14:45). We discuss a great plan Fred suggested to his wife, Sheri, to simulate the high stakes of money bridge (43:50), the future of robots and AI (46:00), and more.
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