About the Author

After 11 years as a database developer at Oracle Corp, I finally decided to take a year off and pursue a dream. Bridge and computers are my two passions in life (besides my wife and kids of course), and building a bridge program was a long time goal.

I'm not a very strong "real-time" player but tend to be fanatical about analyzing hands post-mortem until I feel they are fully understood. Existing bridge software is geared toward man competing against machine. I wasn't interested in that. I wanted a tool that would allow me to sleep at night instead of sweating the really tough deals I thought I had blown in competition but wasn't sure.

An imperfect, analysis assistant was not good enough. I did not want fuzzy assessments of positions even if they were accurate 98% of the time. I needed to know the truth, always. Enter Deep Finesse...


William Bailey
Palo Alto, CA