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same auction to start but reaching different contracts

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Posted 2011-July-30, 21:20

I don't know if this has been addressed before but can anyone explain why, with 15 tables of 3 GIBS and one human (all humans sitting south, both human and the human's GIB pard passing throughout) 14 tables end up in 2♠ making extras and one table (bidding starts the same) ending up in 4 ♠ +1?

Sometimes it seems as though the GIBS are already running a tourney among themselves! This sort of thing seems to happen a fair amount where ONE GIB will go off on its own.. I have wondered sometimes if the GIBS are actually individual bots and one is a renegade! (Have I been reading too much science fiction? :ph34r:
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Posted 2011-July-30, 23:40

maybe the basic robots bid 2 and the advanced one bids 4?

But also, GIB bases its decisions on simulations and they non-deterministic. So the simulations could favor different actions at different tables even if the conditions are the same.
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Posted 2011-August-07, 11:39

View Posthelene_t, on 2011-July-30, 23:40, said:

maybe the basic robots bid 2 and the advanced one bids 4?

But also, GIB bases its decisions on simulations and they non-deterministic. So the simulations could favor different actions at different tables even if the conditions are the same.

It just happened again..no other GIBS got to game in ♥ except at my table although all made 5. The auctions all start out the same, then one GIB gets rambunctious. I use the download version (the web version gives me a headache) and I'm not sure which sort of GIBS inhabit that world but it is extremely frustrating. I've only played about 6 hands with GIBS since the last time that happened so that's sort of a high percentage of weirdness. I am beginning to wonder if the GIBs on the download version are fixed to make playing on the download version frustrating in the endless quest to force everyone to switch. I will probably give up bridge online before I use the web version, sorry to say.
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Posted 2011-August-07, 21:27

The downloaded version lets you set thinking speed (which translates to the number of simulations it does), so different players can have very different results.

Also, there have been improvements made to the web GIB in the past year, but I presume they haven't given you a new downloaded version in this time, so you don't have these fixes.
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