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Scintillatingly "BRILLIANT" "defence" by Frick and Frack, who manage to turn my heart 10 into a WINNER and who also manage to NEVER take their ace of spades.
BTW, I think the GIBBO system of 3D being invitational is hopeless...just like most of their antiquated, illogical, wasteful, redundant, wildly inferior ENTIRE system is. Who would voluntarily play all the hideous JUNK that GIBBO mandates?
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Benellis58 GIB bashing on repeat Groundhog Day
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Posted Yesterday, 09:40
East's decision to bid the "impossible spade" is highly questionable, particularly since West might have as few as three clubs.
Over 2S, West bids 3C, basically signing off (!) while making a bid defined as showing ONLY (!) "12-13 TOTAL points". East, who might ALREADY have overbid with 2S, now bids AGAIN, 3D this time. WHY? Poor, poor, pitiful West (R.I.P., Warren Z.!) is forced to go to FOUR clubs, signing off AGAIN, yet East is STILL not satisfied and bids 4H.
East retreats to FIVE clubs...and there they are...in a contract off three TOP tricks. Hopeless, as always. And speaking of "hopeless", let's look at some of the GARBAGE that passes for GIB definitions.
1H begins with the usual monstrously annoying and completely useless words "Major-suit opening". Who thought that it was a good idea to include this needless, disrespectful type of TRASH in SO many GIB definitions?
2C shows this same UNACCEPTABLE style, as IT begins with THESE two useless and insulting words: "New suit". Yeah, GIB, I guess it's a "new suit", since it's the first time it's being mentioned in the imbecilic GIBBO auction, but thanks SO much for the explicit explanation.
Also, a MIRACLE occurs in the auction: East's HIGH-card points GROW. They BLOSSOM! His forcing 1NT was LAZILY defined as showing "6+ HCP" with NO upper limit. Really, GIB? Really? He could REALLY have 37 HCP? Somehow I don't think so. Somehow I think it was just a TYPICALLY pathetic (and LAZY) GIB definition.
Next, his 3S doesn't even MENTION HCP, as it refers ONLY to "total" points, a subject about which GIB has demonstrated time and time again that it knows NOTHING.
His next call, 3D, again says NOTHING about HCP and again mentions only "total" points.
But - hallelujah (!) - his next, and final call, 4H, DOES again speak of HCP...and NOW...ALL OF A SUDDEN...they have GROWN (quite magically!), because NOW the definition claims that 4H shows "TWELVE PLUS" HCP. This, of course, besides being ridiculous, is also a barefaced LIE, since he actually has 11 HCP - the SAME 11 that he has not surprisingly held since he first picked up his cards...contrary to the shifting descriptions in the hopeless GIB definitions.
BTW, this 4H definition that falsely claims that East has "12+ HCP" ALSO claims that he has "12- total points", thereby proving for the Nth time that GIB knows nothing - NOTHING AT ALL - about "total" points. HCP can be less than or equal to "total" points, but they CANNOT be greater. Why? Because "total" points are arrived at by beginning with the HCP as a base, and then, if applicable, ADDING points for distribution. This is a basic, elementary, SIMPLE concept...yet GIB states in this definition that East is showing at LEAST 12 HCP and quite possibly MORE - possibly even 37, since the typically LAZY definition includes no upper limit, just a plus sign. Yet the SAME definition states that he has at MOST 12 "total" points - and possibly fewer - possibly even ZERO, since the typically LAZY definition includes no LOWER limit, just a minus sign. GIB is basically stating that HCP can be GREATER than "total" points, which is utterly ridiculous. This is not an isolated case of a single bad definition that slipped through the cracks - this is a COMMON, FREQUENTLY REPEATED theme that crops up time and time again when the pathetic GIB definitions refer to HCP and "total" points. This is an unacceptable mistruth that GIB repeats over and over and over again. GIB is GARBAGE.
GIB definitions, like the GIBBO system and robots, are hopeless from start to finish, from top to bottom, from beginning to end. They are ALL so dramatically BROKEN that they are irreparable. Don't even TRY to fix them, because unless you have a spare 10 thousand years with nothing else to occupy your time, it will be impossible. The ROT is too deep, too widespread, too intertwined. Do yourself AND the WORLD a favour: Toss all this GIB/GIBBO garbage into an incinerator, a trash compactor, or the world's deepest landfill...and start over with DECENT robots, a DECENT system, and DECENT definitions.
https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yckk6vxb
Over 2S, West bids 3C, basically signing off (!) while making a bid defined as showing ONLY (!) "12-13 TOTAL points". East, who might ALREADY have overbid with 2S, now bids AGAIN, 3D this time. WHY? Poor, poor, pitiful West (R.I.P., Warren Z.!) is forced to go to FOUR clubs, signing off AGAIN, yet East is STILL not satisfied and bids 4H.
East retreats to FIVE clubs...and there they are...in a contract off three TOP tricks. Hopeless, as always. And speaking of "hopeless", let's look at some of the GARBAGE that passes for GIB definitions.
1H begins with the usual monstrously annoying and completely useless words "Major-suit opening". Who thought that it was a good idea to include this needless, disrespectful type of TRASH in SO many GIB definitions?
2C shows this same UNACCEPTABLE style, as IT begins with THESE two useless and insulting words: "New suit". Yeah, GIB, I guess it's a "new suit", since it's the first time it's being mentioned in the imbecilic GIBBO auction, but thanks SO much for the explicit explanation.
Also, a MIRACLE occurs in the auction: East's HIGH-card points GROW. They BLOSSOM! His forcing 1NT was LAZILY defined as showing "6+ HCP" with NO upper limit. Really, GIB? Really? He could REALLY have 37 HCP? Somehow I don't think so. Somehow I think it was just a TYPICALLY pathetic (and LAZY) GIB definition.
Next, his 3S doesn't even MENTION HCP, as it refers ONLY to "total" points, a subject about which GIB has demonstrated time and time again that it knows NOTHING.
His next call, 3D, again says NOTHING about HCP and again mentions only "total" points.
But - hallelujah (!) - his next, and final call, 4H, DOES again speak of HCP...and NOW...ALL OF A SUDDEN...they have GROWN (quite magically!), because NOW the definition claims that 4H shows "TWELVE PLUS" HCP. This, of course, besides being ridiculous, is also a barefaced LIE, since he actually has 11 HCP - the SAME 11 that he has not surprisingly held since he first picked up his cards...contrary to the shifting descriptions in the hopeless GIB definitions.
BTW, this 4H definition that falsely claims that East has "12+ HCP" ALSO claims that he has "12- total points", thereby proving for the Nth time that GIB knows nothing - NOTHING AT ALL - about "total" points. HCP can be less than or equal to "total" points, but they CANNOT be greater. Why? Because "total" points are arrived at by beginning with the HCP as a base, and then, if applicable, ADDING points for distribution. This is a basic, elementary, SIMPLE concept...yet GIB states in this definition that East is showing at LEAST 12 HCP and quite possibly MORE - possibly even 37, since the typically LAZY definition includes no upper limit, just a plus sign. Yet the SAME definition states that he has at MOST 12 "total" points - and possibly fewer - possibly even ZERO, since the typically LAZY definition includes no LOWER limit, just a minus sign. GIB is basically stating that HCP can be GREATER than "total" points, which is utterly ridiculous. This is not an isolated case of a single bad definition that slipped through the cracks - this is a COMMON, FREQUENTLY REPEATED theme that crops up time and time again when the pathetic GIB definitions refer to HCP and "total" points. This is an unacceptable mistruth that GIB repeats over and over and over again. GIB is GARBAGE.
GIB definitions, like the GIBBO system and robots, are hopeless from start to finish, from top to bottom, from beginning to end. They are ALL so dramatically BROKEN that they are irreparable. Don't even TRY to fix them, because unless you have a spare 10 thousand years with nothing else to occupy your time, it will be impossible. The ROT is too deep, too widespread, too intertwined. Do yourself AND the WORLD a favour: Toss all this GIB/GIBBO garbage into an incinerator, a trash compactor, or the world's deepest landfill...and start over with DECENT robots, a DECENT system, and DECENT definitions.
https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yckk6vxb