Great Game Products

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Bridge Baron is the result of over 42 years of research, passion, and intelligent collaboration with some of the brightest minds in the country. The game was originally created by Tom Throop. He has devoted more time to this subject than any other person in the world and has pioneered the development of computer bridge programs. Tom is a lifelong bridge and chess player, and also a Silver Life Master of the American Contract Bridge League. He has written the only book on bridge software, titled "Computer Bridge". In the chess world, Tom has a draw against the one-time US Champion, Arnold Denker. Tom also reached the rank of the 35th highest ranked postal chess player in the US. Tom knows a great deal about computers and has merged this with his passion for the game of bridge. In 1958, while working at a US Navy Lab in the District of Columbia, he programmed a Univac computer to play bridge. The machine, which had a 1,000-word memory, could play only one round before it ran out of computer power. Some years later, Tom wrote some play routines using the GE time-sharing system. Later, Tom designed bridge software for Radio Shack, Apple, and Commodore computers. In the early 1980s, Tom wrote the only book on bridge software, titled Computer Bridge published by Hayden Books. By 1982, Tom had produced the first complete computer bridge program, BRIDGE BARON 1. Eventually, in 1985 he founded a company in Bethesda, Maryland called Great Game Products, Inc., that focused on selling...

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