[benellis58]

If you looked up "garbage" in an illustrated dictionary, would you see a picture of a GIBBO robot?

[benellis58]

Most people feel that declarer play is by far what the GIBBO robots are best at when it comes to bridge. Even I think that, and have nothing but complete contempt for the GIBBO robots, who I consider to be the worst "bridge players" I have ever seen in my life.

But just because these hopeless clowns are better at declaring than at anything else, it does not mean that they are GOOD at declaring...because they definitely aren't.

Watch how the repulsive GIBBO robot in the West butchers his declarer play in 3H.

He has two top club losers and no diamond losers. If he guesses hearts correctly, which he stumbles into doing, he will have no heart losers. Okay, all fairly straightforward so far, but then the braindead fool manages to lose TWO spades even though even though his king is BEHIND South's ace and dummy East has only a doubleton.

The ignoramus accomplishes this ludicrous feat by stupidly botching his entries so that he ends up playing spades AWAY from his king. What an absolute nincompoop! The GIBBO robots, the pathetic GIBBO system, and the useless GIB definitions all belong in a junkyard somewhere. Please get rid of them and find some decent robots. I can't imagine anyone or anything playing worse than these rejects.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/9u7db3cv

[benellis58]

Interesting 3D call by the GIBBO robot in the West. Amusingly, it took him much longer than usual to come up with this stroke of genius, as there was a LONG pause after my 2C bid - so long that I thought it might be one of BBO's technological glitches. Eventually West's 3D was bid loudly and proudly. He and his equally useless robot partner ended up adding yet another total zero to their enormous lifetime collection.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p8rkt5m

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They LOVE their trump leads, don't they? They are NOT very good at shifts, are they? What HOPELESS "bridge players"...hand after hand after hand.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/kt7mvphb

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A MASTER class in "defending" by the two GIBBO monstrosities sitting East-West. Even for THESE total I.D.I.O.T.S. this "defence" is amazing. They NEVER cease to amaze me with how staggeringly, record-breakingly, sickeningly hopeless they are. They absolutely ROT time and time again. They are pathetic.

Just in case you're wondering, because perhaps I haven't made my feelings clear: I have NO respect whatsoever for the bridge "ability" of the GIBBO robots and their GIB predecessors. They are the lowest of the low.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/3rhufckf

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Another MASTER class in "defence". Here it didn't really matter, but East in particular STILL did his best to show off his cluelessness.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yckpy2xc

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Remarkably stupid lead followed by stunningly bad "defence". In other words, a perfectly "normal" state of affairs when GIBBO robots "defend". If we taught chimpanzees how to play bridge it would not surprise me at all if they soon outperformed GIBBO robots.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/522zj39a

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Some total lunacy courtesy of the hopeless GIB definitions and the equally hopeless GIBBO robots sitting East-West:

The insanity begins with the definition of East's 2C bid: "2-4 clubs; 2-4 diamonds; 2-4 hearts; 2-4 spades;...". On the previous round, he had doubled North's 1C opener, and his double had then been defined as "...2- clubs; 3-5 diamonds; 3-4 hearts; 3-4 spades;...", so, as you can see, the DEFINED (!) lengths for all four suits (!) have greatly changed! We were first told that he had from zero to two clubs - now we are told that he has two to four! We were first told that he has at least three diamonds and possibly as many as five - now we are told that he might have ONLY two and that he has has at MOST four! We were first told that he had specifically either three or four cards in each major - now we are told that he could have only two in each. We expect useless garbage from GIB definitions...but can't it at least be consistent useless garbage?

West, having earlier bid 1H in response to East's takeout double of 1C, now, over 2C, bids two DIAMONDS (!!!) on J96, K654, J43, 1084. Not only is this crazy, but - and here we go again - it doesn't even match his own GIB definition of "4+ diamonds...". The definition also says "...forcing to 3H". Why on EARTH would he want to FORCE to THREE hearts with his collection of dogmeat? East now bids 2H and...sure enough (!) West RAISES to THREE hearts with his SAME collection of dogmeat. He also does not come close to matching his own GIB definition for 3H, which is "4+ diamonds; 5+ hearts...", since in BOTH suits he has one FEWER card than the MINIMUM he has "promised".

These two clueless jerks end up in THREE hearts for absolutely no reason and go down two - thereby "earning" themselves a miserable score of 7.69 % on the board.

https://www.bridgeba...HJ%7Cpc%7CS9%7C

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North's 3D call - vulnerable - opposite a partner who had PASSED his opening bid of 1D - is highly questionable. He caught me with MUCH more than I had shown, since I had SEVEN (!!!) HCP but had chosen to operate slightly by passing ID. He went down "only" one in 3D and we scored 100 % on the board (with EW getting one of their VERY frequent zeroes), so I can't complain, but I repeat that he didn't rate to buy THIS good a hand, given my operation in the bidding. But in ADDITION to that, the EW "defence" was wretched (as is so often the case). The GIBBO robots rot.

https://www.bridgeba...D8%7Cpc%7CHA%7C

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I.D.I.O.T.I.C. lead by the ignorant GIBBO robot in the North. The hopeless and perennial loser is staring at the KQ of spades but thinks that his 10 of clubs from 106 doubleton is a FAR more attractive lead. These pathetic clowns are the worst "bridge players" I have ever seen in my life, and one of the contributing factors is that they are also the worst opening leaders I have ever seen in my life...with ONE exception: The GIB robots who immediately preceded these current GIBBO robots were, as hard as it may be to believe, even worse leaders.

Fortunately, we scored 74.26 % on the board, in spite of the astounding stupidity of the lead, since some North-Souths allowed two or even three overtricks after the same auction and the same braindead lead. Why haven't the GIBBO robots been sent to a scrapyard (preferably on a planet far, far away) and replaced with decent ones?

https://www.bridgeba...C7%7Cmc%7C10%7C

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South opens one DIAMOND and rebids two DIAMONDS, so when South becomes declarer in 3NT, the GIBBO robot sitting West thinks that the best thing he can POSSIBLY lead is...yes, you guessed it...a...DIAMOND. Ship them out, please ship them OUT. They rot!

https://www.bridgeba...CH9%7Cmc%7C9%7C

[benellis58]

What a STUPID pass of his partner's 1H opening by the typically clueless GIBBO robot in the West! These bozos have no IDEA how to play.

https://www.bridgeba...C9%7Cpc%7CH4%7C

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South opens 1D. West passes. North bids 1S. East doubles. South redoubles, showing three spades.

West has 42, Q654, A82, Q1087. His partner East has made a takeout double showing clubs and hearts. West has four of each. To almost all bridge players, West has an easy, straightforward 2H call. But to the GIBBO robot sitting West, this looks like a 1NT bid! Yes, I see the flattish 2-4-3-4 shape, the 7 HCP, and the (SINGLE!) diamond stopper, but I also see NO spade stopper...AND I see four cards in each of the two suits that partner has shown! Verdict: Further proof that the GIBBO robots are lousy bidders.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/4w89eknk

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Spade 10 at trick four? Spade 10 at trick four? Spade TEN at rick four???!!!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/ms2f8scs

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East ducks with his diamond ace at trick four, thereby "earning" himself one MORE zero to add to his overflowing trophy cabinet of mementos from his constant lifelong failures in bridge.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yckzn42j

[benellis58]

My guess is that the GIBBO robots sitting East-West did not produce the GREATEST defence of all time on this hand:

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/mspmrx5s

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This board was played all 126 times in 2D. 7 declarers took 10 tricks. 112, including me, took 9. 6 took 8. One took 7. I scored exactly 50 % on the board.

The reason I am posting this hand is the auction.

As you have probably guessed, this was a Just Declare game with a mandated auction, so obviously GIBBO recommends this auction and feels that it's perfect.

What it actually is, is a perfect example of how GIBBO has no IDEA about how to bid two-suiters.

Note that South FAILS to intelligently plan a prepared auction and therefore NEVER shows his good FIVE-card (!) heart suit! He gets what he deserves for his incredibly bad bidding when NS rest in a final contract of 2D...when they have a six-ONE diamond "fit" with a "side" (ha, ha!) UNKNOWN fit of FIVE-FOUR (!) in hearts. GIBBO bidding at its "best"!

https://www.bridgeba...CC6%7Cmc%7C9%7C

[benellis58]

GIBBO robots: Shining examples of ineptitude and incompetence at bridge.

Watch these clowns "defend" here:

East leads his stiff heart 5, guaranteeing me four heart tricks on the fly, without having to guess anything.

At trick three, West decides that he MUST shift to the QUEEN of spades. By playing his QUEEN, he allows me to squeeze East in spades and diamonds and take TWELVE tricks on the hand.

Thank you, Mr. East. Thank you, Mr. West. You are two of the absolutely worst "bridge players" I have ever seen in my life, but you are always VERY generous in giving good scores to your opponents.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2xdbryk6

[benellis58]

Never mind the (bad) result. The question is why would the piece of trash in the North lead a SPADE, declarer's KNOWN first suit? Answer: Because he's a GIBBO robot and is therefore KNOWN to be one of the absolutely worst "bridge players" of ALL time. What a jerk!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yz8vhfuh

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Never mind the (good) result. The question is why would the piece of trash in the North lead a HEART when he has KJ2 of clubs, and his partner opened 1C and later doubled 3C? Answer: Because he's a GIBBO robot and is therefore KNOWN to be one of the absolutely worst "bridge players" of ALL time. What a jerk!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/3kxz99e5