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The question being: how do you lose more than 17 IMPs to the leaders on a hand where there is no hint of a slam, no potential sacrifice, and you achieve the par result?
I admit that I considered bidding 3♦ over 1♣, and admire those who did so; and if you want to give the opponents a fielder's choice, and risk -300 to avoid being -140, go ahead and bid 1♦-2♦-3♦ with the South hand - "chacun a son gout." But I do object when the robots, having found their ♥ fit at the 1-level, start introducing 3 card ♠ suits and making (like West here) an atrocious jump to the 4-level in the weaker of his prospective trump suits, turning an easy-as-pie hand into a -800 disaster. At IMPs you just can't make up this kind of ground. Is it really so difficult to stop the bots from bidding 3-card suits other than a 1♣/1♦ opening bid?
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And the answer is: "Robots Behaving Badly"
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Posted 2014-December-12, 02:29
uva72uva72, on 2014-December-11, 18:30, said:
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IMPs, ACBL robot individual
The question being: how do you lose more than 17 IMPs to the leaders on a hand where there is no hint of a slam, no potential sacrifice, and you achieve the par result?
I admit that I considered bidding 3♦ over 1♣, and admire those who did so; and if you want to give the opponents a fielder's choice, and risk -300 to avoid being -140, go ahead and bid 1♦-2♦-3♦ with the South hand - "chacun a son gout." But I do object when the robots, having found their ♥ fit at the 1-level, start introducing 3 card ♠ suits and making (like West here) an atrocious jump to the 4-level in the weaker of his prospective trump suits, turning an easy-as-pie hand into a -800 disaster. At IMPs you just can't make up this kind of ground. Is it really so difficult to stop the bots from bidding 3-card suits other than a 1♣/1♦ opening bid?
IMPs, ACBL robot individual
The question being: how do you lose more than 17 IMPs to the leaders on a hand where there is no hint of a slam, no potential sacrifice, and you achieve the par result?
I admit that I considered bidding 3♦ over 1♣, and admire those who did so; and if you want to give the opponents a fielder's choice, and risk -300 to avoid being -140, go ahead and bid 1♦-2♦-3♦ with the South hand - "chacun a son gout." But I do object when the robots, having found their ♥ fit at the 1-level, start introducing 3 card ♠ suits and making (like West here) an atrocious jump to the 4-level in the weaker of his prospective trump suits, turning an easy-as-pie hand into a -800 disaster. At IMPs you just can't make up this kind of ground. Is it really so difficult to stop the bots from bidding 3-card suits other than a 1♣/1♦ opening bid?
Its whacko that West with more than minimum can't bid 2♥ or double 3♦.
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