[Andy_L]

Applies to 1.) Robot Rental and 2.) Robot Tournaments. Suggestion (I sure it's been made before) applies to hands where Partner Robot is Declarer: Switch the N-S hands to allow human player to play all contracts where N-S wins the auction. If not go this far, then Add a selection button... ex. Human Player Play all N-S Contracts? Yes or No.

I see two clear advantages: 1.) Human player has more effect on outcome - so a better contest of skills. 2.) Doubling of "play of hand" experience for human player. And guess what? If we're renting (3) robots to play we're likely trying improve/hone our skills.

Only disadvantage I see is applies to Robot Tournaments where addition time would likely have to be added to allow for 2/8 or 3/12 boards (on average) that would have been played by faster Robot vs. being played by slower human.

[Bbradley62]

Welcome (again) to the Forum, Andy. I guess this one was actually your first post...

As you guessed, this is a frequent topic. It gets batted around in both "make it mandatory" and "make it optional" versions. Other threads have included:
http://www.bridgebas...__1#entry449116
http://www.bridgebas...__1#entry508463