Buffet on Bridge
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are fans of bridge and have invested a million dollars in programs to teach bridge in schools. It is one of only a few strategic games in which humans are still superior to computers.
Here are some things Buffet has to say about the game:
“You know, if I’m playing bridge and a naked woman walks by, I don’t ever see her,” he said, laughing, then added, “don’t test me on that!!”
“You know,” Buffet told Blackstone, “I wouldn’t mind going to jail if I had the right three cell mates, so we could play bridge all the time.”
“There’s a lotta lessons in it,” Buffett assured him, “you have to look at all the facts. You have to draw inferences from what you’ve seen, what you’ve heard. You have to discard improper theories about what the hand had as more evidence comes in sometimes. You have to be open to a possible change of course if you get new information. You have to work with a partner, particularly on defense.”
“I’ve never met anybody that spent time to learn the game that didn’t consider it one of the great things in their life,” he concluded.
