ACBL Masterpoints
5th generation AI.
Play with friends or practice on your own.
Study the hands of your bridge teacher.
Online hands from your library, classroom hands
Shark's 5th generation robot can be adjusted from an excellent beginner to a full-scale AI expert player.
Shark Bridge offers unlimited hands, duplicate bridge games, and Daily Tournament with MP (%) scoring.
Play bridge with friends or practice on your own.
Study the hands of your bridge teacher.
Play deals online from your library, classroom hands, and generator
You can play and review boards with the complete auction and play details from International, North American, and European competitions.
Internet is not required, except for Daily Tournaments and the Online Bridge Club.
Shark Bridge won the 2014 and 2011 World Bridge Computer Championships.
You can email hands to your partner or other bridge friends for discussion if they have Shark or another bridge app capable of opening PBN/LIN files. Share the fun! You can also import bridge deals from your computer disk or the Internet.
Shark Bridge features:
- Bidding systems: Standard American 5 card major( SAYC or Shark flavor), 2/1 Game Force, Std English Acol (in development) bidding systems.
- Duplicate bridge game.
- Bridge tournament boards.
- Play bridge offline ( no Internet ) or live on the Internet with your friends and foes.
- Never wait for a bridge table to fill in; our high-quality robot will play bridge when needed.
- Hints and auction analysis are available at any time. Ask the Shark Bridge, and it will help.
- Get suggestions when the declarer is on the lead to a trick; Shark will recommend a play strategy.
- Open PBN (Portable Bridge Notation) and LIN ( VU-Graph) files from your email.
- Choose from regular and 4-color card decks.
Bridge Enthusiast In-App purchase ($29.99) upgrade offers:
- Play an unlimited number of random deals.
- 9 WBF, ACBL, and European bridge tournaments from 2014,2013,2011.
- Email bridge hands from your Personal Deal Library.
- Basic Online Bridge Play: create, join, and kibitz at any table.
- Deal Analysis.
- One year free VIP subscription.
VIP subscription ($34.99/year) unlocks additional features and services:
- Daily tournament with 16 boards; compare your skill with the rest of our VIP members. Study the deals from past competitions.
- 32 WBF, ACBL, and European bridge tournaments in recent years, including 2016. More are in the works.
- VIP online play: create, join, and kibitz at any table, manage friends, block players, invite players.
- Par Contract Calculator.
- Personal Deal Library: all saved deals are instantly available to all of your devices.
- Advanced Deal Generator.
- Classroom hands
- Access to The CommonGame hands, via the Classroom hands module
- Highest priority for feature requests.
Bridge Bidding Systems: Standard American 5-card major( SAYC or Shark flavor), 2/1 Game Force, Acol, and Swedish 5-card major bidding systems, and more are in the works.
Each bridge system includes the most popular conventions, and you can further customize it with :
1NT / 2NT range and hand distribution options
Gambling 3NT or strong 25+ HCP 3NT
Stayman
Jacoby and Texas Transfers
Weak two Spades, Hearts, Diamonds
Strong 2 Clubs
Blackwood: 4 Aces / 5 Aces, RKCB, RKC 1430, Exclusion Blackwood
Jacoby 2NT
Sandwich 2NT
Two-way new minor forcing (XY-NT)
Leaping Michaels
Michaels Cue Bid
Maximum Overcall Double
Negative Doubles
Takeout Doubles
Responsive Doubles
Support Double
Splinter Bids
Lebensohl
Unusual 2NT
Drury
DONT
Landy
Multi Landi
BPH
The Shark Play bridge engine was designed and programmed by John Norris, an international bridge master and Danish Bridge Champion.
Shark robot is the most human-like playing bot; it has been tested against professional players and proved a worthy opponent.
I enjoy having the ability to play bridge 24/7!! I play with friend online three times a week with friends I’ve met online. But, I enjoy being able to practice whenever I wish… on my own. Well done, app designers! Plus, anyone can reach out to them… via email and they are quick to get back to you with answers, support. It’s the best app online!!
AI Imbalanced
Starman6
Another Update:AI’s bidding is getting more atrocious, which I didn’t think was possible! Oh, and, it cheats! West bids 4 Clubs while holding a hand of 5 points and two lowly cards in clubs. East meanwhile has 7 cards in Clubs including A, K & J, which West seems to be aware of. I doubled and took them down -3. Similar scenarios have happened so often that I’ve given up taking screenshots since it doesn’t seem that the Devs have any interest in improving the AI. Time to uninstall and move on.Update: I’m truly glad to know that you are dedicated to improving the AI. I’ve taken a bunch of screenshots that I can email you, if that will help. I’ll try and report the hands via the button but, I don’t think it’s possible after the hand has been played. That button is not accessible when Shark shows on the pop up screen what it would have bid and scored.Rather than playing online, which depends on the schedule of others, I prefer to play against the AI. I would be happy to pay if I saw some real improvements with the AI’s bidding algorithm.Thanks for your response. I much preferred the previous version of this app. The “improvements “ to AI in this version are a joke!Even on the conservative setting, the Robot makes very aggressive bids for my partner North, invariably leading to a loss.What’s most galling is that, at the end of the game, Shark’s own analysis is that North should have bid differently!
Developer Response
Hi,The AI have not been neglected, for us that is the fun part of this project . We would like to see the boards for which you are not happy with the bidding, please use the Report button on the bottom right of the bridge table, it will send us the info we need to look at it and improve it. As for money, the $20 are there not to make us rich, compared to any other bridge App Shark is practically free, it is there so that only people serious about the game of bridge stay on our system. Shark is coded by and for bridge enthusiast !!!
Excellent app
JMKB1234
Very pleasant and helpful gentleman in their help department Provides playing on-line with friends (which we’ve been doing for a few years) along with numerous kinds of practice runs. The app never seems to have problems Love itGreat system with virtually no problemsI still love playing games for practice as well as playing with friendsGreat!
Great Game!
Laurel92694
We have learned to be pretty good party bridge players using this game. But I came to say how good the developers are, we had a problem installing the paid version and they stayed in touch, gave detailed instructions, and got us up and running. Thank you very much. Great app!
Updated bidding and play engine
Version 5.25
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Seller
The Shark Bridge Company Inc
Size
171.2 MB
Category
Card
Compatibility
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
