[benellis58]

Oh, YEAH, Mr. North, REALLY brilliant to raise 2S to three...AFTER seeing your LHO open the bidding and AFTER seeing your RHO...DOUBLE (!) my 1NT overcall. Yes, "partner", REALLY brilliant. I guess you were SHOCKED when I...PASSED your...ahem..."invitation"...and then went down one.

Now, it's certainly true that my...ahem...1NT overcall (!) could have been better, but forgetting about MY foibles (including whether i might have done better in the play, which I haven't bothered to look at), I think the raise to 3S is NOT an action that rates to do well...and this thread is not about bashing ME (thank Heaven!), it's about bashing the ROBOTS, so I rest my case...and I'll see myself out.

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

[benellis58]

West has to lead a club to beat our game. He's a GIBBO robot, however, so he preferred to lead a spade - undoubtedly because his LHO bid one spade...and the GIBBO robots LOVE to lead the ENEMY suits. It "worked out" here about as "well" as it usually does, but they'll never figure that out.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/5x2tjpsr

[benellis58]

I don't think NS will win any Bols Brilliancy Prizes for getting to 3NT, but we lucked out when West made the IMBECILIC lead of his STIFF spade 10...INTO declarer South. who had responded one SPADE to North's 1D opening bid.

Meanwhile, North proved for the Nth time that the GIBBO robots have absolutely NO idea of how to bid two-suiters.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/y7cnb5rc

[benellis58]

When they shouldn't shift, they do - and when they SHOULD shift, the don't. That's the story of their lives for GIBBO robots.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/53x244d5

[benellis58]

Typically stupid and typically annoying GIBBO "strategy" of PASSING and - when partner later competes/balances/protects - then BURYING him with a CUE BID at a HIGH level. In fact, there are many examples far WORSE than this one here.

Note that the human South DOES respect the GIB definition of his double (although admittedly he often does not, because of the complete and utter contempt he has for the often pathetic GIB definitions foisted on him through GIBBO's piece of garbage system) and that his hand is perfectly described by the definition.

Note, on the other hand, that the piece of trash GIBBO robot in the North does NOT follow his own GIB definition. The GIB definition of 4C is, in any case, the useless piece of bilge that GIB definitions so often are, as it says NOTHING except "10-11 total points". North has a mere 9 HCP, and the idea of "total" points is very questionable, since his only shortness is in DIAMONDS, which is South's KNOWN long suit, not only on the auction, but also as DEFINED in the GIB definition.

Additionally. 3 of North's 9 HCP are in the ENEMY suit of clubs. Note that the TWO game contracts that NS can make (thanks to the 3-3 splits in both spades and diamonds, AND the queen of diamonds being onside) are: 3NT, which North might have bid, but didn't, and 5D, where North PULLED South's 4 DIAMONDS to HEARTS.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p8emb39

[benellis58]

East-West had a bad result (as they so often do, which makes sense, considering what WRETCHED "bridge players" they are) for 3C down one. They scored a paltry 14.3 % on the board. To be fair, that's more than they're worth, because as far as I'm concerned, they're so disgustingly bad that they should score ZERO on EVERY board. They rot.

However, even if they had scored a HUNDRED percent, it would not have altered the fact that the GIBBO robot in the East made a truly ignorant bid (what else is new?) of 3C on his ratty little A832...in a hand that he had already OPENED one CLUB. The *****ous dolt would have been a lot better off bidding 2S. It would have given his partner West the option of passing (if West thought that best) or converting to 3C (if West had a decent club fit and thought that clubs would be a better spot). TWO kicks at the can instead of the USUAL imbecilic GIBBO "strategy" of UNILATERALLY and for no reason making the final decision for the partnership. And...2S would NOT have overstated East's spade length, because East's earlier pass over North's 2H had already denied his having three or more spades.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p8527fk

[benellis58]

West's panicked, cowardly, incompetent "defence" gives me an early claim. I could always make 11 tricks if I guessed to play HIM for the doubleton ace of diamonds, rather than East, but would I? Who knows? We'll never know, because as these woeful rubes so often do, West removed the guess by rolling over and playing dead. These useless GIBBO dolts stink at bridge.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2jnbht7d

[benellis58]

Typically egregious "defence" by the GIBBO clown in the West, who "earns" his partnership a miserable score of 3.6 % on the board. Why are these pathetic jerks even IN a bridge game? They should go to the movies instead, but they'd probably have to have a friend with them to explain what was happening on the screen.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/3mzr3ze2

[benellis58]

Stupid lead of a stiff trump from East (as ALWAYS expected from these GIBBO jabronis) which succeeds in earning his joke of a partnership yet ANOTHER total zero. Do they even have any ROOM left in their storage warehouses to add ANOTHER zero to their massive lifetime collection?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/mpj85xzv

[benellis58]

Why is the buffoon leading a DIAMOND on THIS auction? He gets his EXPECTED bad score. It's LONG past the time to dump these GIBBO twits and replace them with DECENT robots.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/ycktz2jz

[benellis58]

In spite of everything, the robot games are enjoyable - but they would be immensely more enjoyable if BBO got rid of the disgusting GIBBO robots. They are absolute garbage, as is their wretched system and its pathetic GIB definitions. BBO is an otherwise fine website, so it's a real shame that it has such a glaring weakness with its incredibly worthless GIBBO robots. They are a stain on BBO and a stain on the game of bridge.

[benellis58]

West and East make ridiculous defensive plays. No surprise at all, since they're GIBBO robots, the lowest of the low, the worst of the worst.

At trick three, West stupidly wastes his heart jack from J107, LOOKING at the stiff king in dummy. East can counteract his partner's stupidity by playing his 8 from 83 doubleton, thereby unblocking the defensive communication in hearts caused by West's imbecilic play, but since East is also that species of slime known as a GIBBO robot, the play is FAR beyond his ability. Then at trick four, East (incompetent jerk that he is) stupidly (what else?) pops his club king. These two pieces of dirt combine to score a typically miserable 3.6 % on the board for typically wretched "defence". They belong in a garbage dump, not on an otherwise fine bridge site.

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

[benellis58]

Here's an example of the utter tripe that passes for a GIB definition:

South's double of 4S is uselessly and stupidly defined as "2+ spades". That's IT. That's ALL. That's the COMPLETE "definition! Who in the HELL thought that this bilge was even worth writing?

It says NOTHING about points. It says NOTHING about shape (except for the LUDICROUS garbage about "2+ spades", which in and of itself is total and complete nonsense). It says NOTHING about the intent of the double: Is it for penalty? For takeout? Is it showing "cards", and if so, within what parameters? Is it a DSI double, and if so, how the HELL can the doubler's partner "do something intelligent" when he doesn't know what the HELL the double is supposed to show? What the HELL is the double supposed to BE? What the HELL is the double supposed to SHOW? How the HELL can the doubler's partner EVER have an intelligent idea of what to do when the double is a MYSTERY thanks to the piece of stinking garbage that is SUPPOSED to be a definition?

Any time I look at a GIB definition, I fully expect to see worthless trash, but EVEN with that expectation, THIS one surprised me, because it's even MORE worthless than most GIB definitions are, and most GIB definitions are completely wretched to begin with.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p8tm7ra

[benellis58]

This worked out well for North-South, but both East and North did a LOT of bidding.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p8asdpf

[benellis58]

The GIBBO robot sitting West stupidly (ho hum, what else would we expect?) pops his diamond ace at trick two, thereby ensuring that I will be able to take TWO more diamond tricks. If the *****ous lummox simply ducks at trick two, I will score only ONE more diamond trick, because I will be unable to reach dummy to score the other one. Of course, this is MUCH too difficult a concept for the dweeb in the West chair. Later, thanks to West's boneheaded play at trick two, I enter dummy with the third round of diamonds and then cash dummy's last diamond. I have now scored three diamond tricks when Superstooge could have held me to two.

At trick five, I lead the heart 4 from dummy's remaining 74 doubleton. This is the second time hearts have been played, as Superstooge led the suit after stupidly winning his diamond ace at trick two. So now, at trick five, East plays his heart 9 from his remaining 98 doubleton. He wins the trick, as I play the 3 from my remaining K53 tripleton and West plays the 6 from his remaining 106 doubleton. East now leads...his last HEART. Of COURSE he leads a HEART, because that is the suit that DECLARER was playing, and these incompetent jackasses LOVE to play the suit DECLARER plays...because they possess ZERO logic and have NO IDEA how to play bridge.

East-West score 7.1 % on the board. North-South score 92.9 %. East-West probably don't even realize that they could have "defended" better. East-West will probably defend the next thousand hands of this type exactly the same way, because East-West are GIBBO robots, and GIBBO robots know SQUAT about how to play bridge. GIBBO robots rot. GIBBO robots suck pumice. GIBBO robots are the worst.

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

[benellis58]

We got a good score here, so I'm not complaining...BUT North's bidding was as "good" as expected from a GIBBO robot. In other words, his bidding was sick, twisted, perverse, and atrocious. In other words, no surprise at all.

North could conceivably: Pass 1NT. Bid 2C. Bid 2NT. Bid 3C. I certainly don't rate all of those equally, but I could at least UNDERSTAND each of those choices, and if North had made any of those four calls I would not have written this post, regardless of what our result was.

But North didn't make any of those calls. North bid two hearts...on his three-bagger. GIB apparently recommends this, as the GIB definition indicates. One more reason to incinerate or bury everything GIB and GIBBO-related.

BTW, in robot games, many of MY bids are bizarre. The reason is "When in Rome,...". In other words, in any GIBBO robot game, I know that I'm playing with an incompetent lunatic against two incompetent lunatics, so I might as well roll the dice.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p8ccaz7

[benellis58]

Here I'm playing a "Hearts-Style Challenge" where I am, unbeknownst to the robots, trying to LOSE as many tricks as possible.

The GIBBO robots are playing their "normal" bridge game and trying their (snicker) "best" to WIN as many tricks as possible.

Watch the play of this hand and observe how MANY monumentally stupid plays they make. I don't have time to document all the GLARINGLY imbecilic plays these pieces of garbage make on this ONE hand. Life is too short.

These GIBBO robots are the absolute pits. They stink so badly at bridge that they should be sprayed with disinfectant. It is astounding that anyone or anything could be as utterly hopeless as these rejects.

https://www.bridgeba...DQ%7Cpc%7CS2%7C

[benellis58]

Typically silly GIBBO lead: A club, declarer's known second suit, into declarer. West is apparently DESPERATELY looking for a ruff - despite the fact that he is looking at a guaranteed (on the auction) natural trump (spade) trick. His fatuous, unthinking, illogical club lead merely "succeeds" in allowing declarer to easily pick up the entire club suit. The GIBBO robots rot.

https://www.bridgeba...D4%7Cmc%7C10%7C

[benellis58]

East teaches us all about "sacrifice" (ha, ha!) bidding, as he sacrifices his PLUS score against 4D by bidding 4S and getting a MINUS score. Imbecile.

Not only that, he did it with an auction where he basically INVITED NS to double 4S. His 3D mixed raise was strategically and tactically silly, given that his partner West was a passed hand. Also, given that as his eventual 4S bid proved, he was ALWAYS willing to (stupidly) "compete" (ha, HA!) to 4S, he should have immediately leapt to 3S or 4S over North's double and then passed forever after that. EVEN after his poor choice of the mixed raise followed by 3S, he should have - definitely - passed over 4D, because he had already TOLD his story to both his "partner" West and the opponents. When he bid 3S and THEN 4S, he was BEGGING to get doubled.

https://www.bridgeba...CS3%7Cmc%7C8%7C

[benellis58]

Many will undoubtedly disagree with my opening bid of 1D rather than 1C. Fine, suit yourselves, but I virtually always follow this style and it works out well for me substantially more often than not, as evidenced by the obvious point that if it did NOT usually work out well, then I would...DUH...change my style.

I was just getting that issue out of the way to cut off any thoughts on it before they even arise, but that of course is not why I'm posting this hand. I'm posting this hand to...DUH...bash the GIBBO robots, because that's what this essential thread that Diana so wisely created is all about. So, let's bash:

Why, why, WHY does North remain SILENT throughout the auction...even after South not only opens the bidding in second seat red against white, but also reopens (!) with a double of 2H? These clueless GIBBO goofballs often bid on nothing more than a few strands of cheese, yet here this oblivious and COWARDLY dimwit in the North has TWELVE (!!!) HCP, including two aces (!) and a king (!), yet he lays down like the braindead, gutless wimp that he is. These GIBBO jerks are not only witless, they are also erratic and inconsistent, and those are just a SMALL number of the reasons that they and their equally rancid GIB predecessors are indisputably the absolutely worst "bridge players" that I have ever...EVER...had the displeasure of encountering in my life. They totally rot and are far worse than even the WORST human player I have ever seen.

https://www.bridgeba...D6%7Cpc%7CSK%7C