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At trick six, East manages to BLOCK the heart suit by imbecilically following with his 5 instead of his 10. A chimpanzee would have had a 50 % chance of pulling the CORRECT card, whereas the totally incompetent and clueless GIBBO jackass apparently had a ZERO percent chance. If you threw this dimwit into a jail cell with 99 SHOES and then gave all 100 prisoners an intelligence test, the GIBBO ROBOT would end up in 100th place, and the various pieces of FOOTWEAR would occupy positions one through 99.
https://www.bridgeba...CSQ%7Cmc%7C9%7C
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#1862
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Posted Today, 08:42
Another amusing thread exploring the incredible, overpowering incompetence of the hopeless GIBBO robots:
https://www.bridgeba...d-defense-ever/
https://www.bridgeba...d-defense-ever/
#1863
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Posted Today, 09:20
Valued contributor OMARHEUM has again sent a hand. This post (#1863) will focus on his table, and the next post (#1864) will examine what happened with the same board at a different table.
OMAR wrote "93%. I was already lucky to find spades 3-3 but even luckier that West did not continue diamonds at trick 7."
Quite true.
And I'd also like to take this opportunity to bash some GIB definitions:
1S begins with these three words: "Major suit opening". Do we REALLY need to be told, Mr. GIB?
2C begins with these two words: "New suit". Do we REALLY need to be told, Mr. GIB?
3NT is defined as "3+ clubs; 3- hearts; 5-6 spades; 15+ HCP; 18- total points; partial stop in diamonds, partial stop in hearts". Some of this is fine, but some other stuff, well:
"5-6 spades": I suppose it's possible for him to have 6 spades, but often with 6 he would have bid bid 2S over 1NT or 3S or 4S over 2NT.
"15+ HCP": Why? North has promised "10+". There are SURELY many South hands with "only" 14 HCP where he would accept the invitation.
"18- total points": ANY mention of "total" points should always be ignored in ANY GIB definition, because GIB has frequently shown that it lacks even a basic comprehension of "total" points. Besides, North is inviting in no trump, so why would South's "total" points even be in the conversation?
"Partial stop in diamonds": Why, pray tell? WHY? NORTH heard South bid both BLACK suits, and then NORTH invited in NT! It's up to NORTH to have diamonds stopped. Note that on the actual hand, South has a stiff 8 of diamonds - not exactly a stopper (!) - and it's not South's bid that's wrong - it's the typically pathetic GIB definition that's wrong!
"Partial stop in hearts": Why, pray tell? WHY? NORTH heard South bid both BLACK suits, and then NORTH invited in NT! It's up to NORTH to have hearts stopped. Note that on the actual hand, South actually does have a heart stopper, but he didn't HAVE to.
Okay, here's the link to the board at OMAR's table:
https://www.bridgeba...H9%7Cmc%7C10%7C
OMAR wrote "93%. I was already lucky to find spades 3-3 but even luckier that West did not continue diamonds at trick 7."
Quite true.
And I'd also like to take this opportunity to bash some GIB definitions:
1S begins with these three words: "Major suit opening". Do we REALLY need to be told, Mr. GIB?
2C begins with these two words: "New suit". Do we REALLY need to be told, Mr. GIB?
3NT is defined as "3+ clubs; 3- hearts; 5-6 spades; 15+ HCP; 18- total points; partial stop in diamonds, partial stop in hearts". Some of this is fine, but some other stuff, well:
"5-6 spades": I suppose it's possible for him to have 6 spades, but often with 6 he would have bid bid 2S over 1NT or 3S or 4S over 2NT.
"15+ HCP": Why? North has promised "10+". There are SURELY many South hands with "only" 14 HCP where he would accept the invitation.
"18- total points": ANY mention of "total" points should always be ignored in ANY GIB definition, because GIB has frequently shown that it lacks even a basic comprehension of "total" points. Besides, North is inviting in no trump, so why would South's "total" points even be in the conversation?
"Partial stop in diamonds": Why, pray tell? WHY? NORTH heard South bid both BLACK suits, and then NORTH invited in NT! It's up to NORTH to have diamonds stopped. Note that on the actual hand, South has a stiff 8 of diamonds - not exactly a stopper (!) - and it's not South's bid that's wrong - it's the typically pathetic GIB definition that's wrong!
"Partial stop in hearts": Why, pray tell? WHY? NORTH heard South bid both BLACK suits, and then NORTH invited in NT! It's up to NORTH to have hearts stopped. Note that on the actual hand, South actually does have a heart stopper, but he didn't HAVE to.
Okay, here's the link to the board at OMAR's table:
https://www.bridgeba...H9%7Cmc%7C10%7C
#1864
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Posted Today, 09:54
Now we'll look at what happened with the same board discussed in post #1863 immediately above, but at a different table (actually MANY different TABLES) from OMAR's.
OMAR wrote "Most common scenario was down 1 at 119 tables".
My comments:
Interestingly, at the sample table shown (although probably not at all 119 tables where the contract went down one), the human South was clearly operating by jumping (!) to THREE NT (!) over North's forcing 1NT.
Perhaps MORE interestingly, on THIS (bizarre) auction, the GIBBO East did not make the normal diamond lead that OMAR received. HERE, for Lord knows what reason (if ANY!), the robot led his queen of hearts from Q7 doubleton. Declarer North won his heart ace at trick one (just as OMAR had won HIS diamond ace at trick one) and then did exactly what OMAR had done at trick two: He led his spade 9 towards dummy South. The robot in the East AGAIN diverged from his earlier counterpart's play. Whereas the East against OMAR had played his 6 from QJ6, THIS East played his jack. I wonder if the two Easts in question had any actual REASONS for what they did. Maybe they're both just randomly tossing cards. It seems that way MOST of the time with these execrable GIBBO robots.
East was allowed to hold the trick. His (strange) opening heart lead had actually hit the jackpot, and it would have been fine for him to play a second heart, but he didn't. NOW he played a diamond...for the first time. Why DIDN'T he play a second heart? Well, perhaps because of what his imbecile of a "partner" had played at trick one. If YOU were sitting West on this hand, and if YOUR partner had led the heart queen and you saw that dummy, wouldn't YOU be thinking, "Wow! Great lead, partner! Wouldn't YOU want to encourage with your heart holding of J109654? Well, that's one of the countless reasons that YOU are infinitely better than a GIBBO robot! Because the braindead robot sitting West had played the...FOUR (!) of hearts at trick one - his LOWEST heart - presumably a DIScouraging signal if it was attitude and an INCORRECT signal if it was count...because the robots play standard signals, not upside-down. Truth be told, mind you, the *****ous rubes probably don't play ANY signals, since they stupidly seem to treat all spot cards as interchangeable equals.
Here the robots did not blow the defence as they had at OMAR's, so a fairly "normal" result of down one occurred.
https://www.bridgeba...DT%7Cpc%7CSQ%7C
OMAR wrote "Most common scenario was down 1 at 119 tables".
My comments:
Interestingly, at the sample table shown (although probably not at all 119 tables where the contract went down one), the human South was clearly operating by jumping (!) to THREE NT (!) over North's forcing 1NT.
Perhaps MORE interestingly, on THIS (bizarre) auction, the GIBBO East did not make the normal diamond lead that OMAR received. HERE, for Lord knows what reason (if ANY!), the robot led his queen of hearts from Q7 doubleton. Declarer North won his heart ace at trick one (just as OMAR had won HIS diamond ace at trick one) and then did exactly what OMAR had done at trick two: He led his spade 9 towards dummy South. The robot in the East AGAIN diverged from his earlier counterpart's play. Whereas the East against OMAR had played his 6 from QJ6, THIS East played his jack. I wonder if the two Easts in question had any actual REASONS for what they did. Maybe they're both just randomly tossing cards. It seems that way MOST of the time with these execrable GIBBO robots.
East was allowed to hold the trick. His (strange) opening heart lead had actually hit the jackpot, and it would have been fine for him to play a second heart, but he didn't. NOW he played a diamond...for the first time. Why DIDN'T he play a second heart? Well, perhaps because of what his imbecile of a "partner" had played at trick one. If YOU were sitting West on this hand, and if YOUR partner had led the heart queen and you saw that dummy, wouldn't YOU be thinking, "Wow! Great lead, partner! Wouldn't YOU want to encourage with your heart holding of J109654? Well, that's one of the countless reasons that YOU are infinitely better than a GIBBO robot! Because the braindead robot sitting West had played the...FOUR (!) of hearts at trick one - his LOWEST heart - presumably a DIScouraging signal if it was attitude and an INCORRECT signal if it was count...because the robots play standard signals, not upside-down. Truth be told, mind you, the *****ous rubes probably don't play ANY signals, since they stupidly seem to treat all spot cards as interchangeable equals.
Here the robots did not blow the defence as they had at OMAR's, so a fairly "normal" result of down one occurred.
https://www.bridgeba...DT%7Cpc%7CSQ%7C