The Stayman Convention in Bridge — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

The Stayman Convention in Bridge

Name: Noah Weiss
Department: Natural Science
Type of research: SURE
Funding: SURE

Name: Juan Sanchez
Major: Mathematics
Hometown: New Lenox, IL
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors: N/A
Type of research: SURE
Funding: SURE

Abstract

Contract bridge is a popular partnership trick-taking card game. The game consists of a bidding phase and a play-of-the-hand phase, both of which invite mathematical and statistical investigations. In the bidding phase of the game, only 38 phrases are allowed to be spoken, and each bid can have a different meaning in context. Partnerships of bridge players will come to agreements on meanings of bids in order to create a coded conversation.

A common conventional bid used in the game is the Stayman convention, and in our research, we created a computer program to deal hands and analyze the beginning of auctions according to common rules. Our statistical analysis showed that Stayman is indeed a valuable convention to use.

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