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The definition of South's 3H (in response to North's 3D new minor forcing), is "3-5 clubs; 2-3 diamonds; 4 hearts; 2 spades; 18-19 HCP; 22- total points; partial stop in diamonds".
As we have sadly come to expect, this reveals for the Nth time just how BAD the GIBBO system is and just how BAD the GIB definitions are.
In the hopeless GIBBO system, it seems clear from this definition that if South has BOTH four hearts AND three spades, he is expected to bid three SPADES over the NMF. Note that I, South, DID have both four hearts and three spades, but I ignored the imbecilic definition that made it obvious that with that holding I "should" bid 3S. I ignored it because I was WELL aware of what a REMARKABLY STUPID way to play that is.
WHY is it remarkably stupid? Because IF I was SILLY enough to bid three SPADES as the unworkable JOKE of a GIBBO system prefers, North almost certainly would then have raised to 4S, his infinitesimally TINY little "brain" being absolutely THRILLED to have found his 5-3 spade fit.
BUT 4-4 fits tend to play BETTER than 5-3 fits, so if North happened to have BOTH five spades AND four hearts, I wanted to be in hearts (the 4-4) rather than spades (the 5-3). As it turned out, he DID have 5 spades and 4 hearts, so he raised to 4H, and I got my wish: playing in the 4-4 rather than the 5-3.
"Yeah, but what if he DIDN'T have four hearts?" ask the poor, deluded, ultra-naive apologists for and defenders of the execrable GIBBO robots (that is, if there is still ANYONE left ANYWHERE who is STILL so misguided and oblivious that they actually STILL defend GIBBO).
Well, Heaven FORBID that he lacked four hearts ("The horror! The horror!"). Guess what, o naive apologists and defenders of the indefensible: He would almost certainly then bid 3NT over my 3H and I could THEN convert to 4S anyway.
Does a 4-4 ALWAYS outperform a 5-3? Of course not. On many layouts, both will produce the same number of tricks. Once in a while, the 5-3 might even produce MORE tricks - but that is very rare. MOST of the time, if there is a disparity in the tricks produced, the 4-4 will outperform the 5-3.
As usual, the GIBBO JOKE of a system gets it backwards...and WRONG...which is not a surprise AT ALL. The system and the definitions are both unmitigated garbage.
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Posted 2026-May-06, 07:09
Why the Hell is the ignorant TROUT in the North wasting time with his imbecilic 3D call when the CLEARLY obvious thing to do at this point in the auction is simply to raise to 3NT? Actually, mind you, a better question is: Why are these GIBBO pimples on the face of bridge STILL here and still polluting an otherwise excellent bridge site with their disgusting presence and laughable lack of ability for the game?
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Posted 2026-May-06, 07:35
Another in the ENDLESS list of examples of the MASSIVE worthlessness of the antiquated, illogical, and downright ridiculous GIBBO joke of a system:
On the auction in question, what would it have meant if South had bid 4NT over North's 4S?
Some ultra-modern space age bridge scientists might have some fabulous new system that I'm unaware of, but barring that, there are two and only two reasonable uses for 4NT by South at this point in this auction. I'm not talking about this random hand - I'm talking as a GENERAL interpretation for any and all hands where the auction begins this way.
One is KCB for clubs. South opened 1C and COULD have a good hand with long clubs...and his partner North has shown a VERY good hand and club support by cuebidding four SPADES...so South might well be contemplating slam sometimes and might well want to ask about keys.
The other is to have 4NT by South mean "Please PASS, partner. I HEARD your 4S bid, and I KNOW you have a good hand for clubs, but I think our BEST spot (now that you have prevented us from playing in THREE no trump) is 4NT, the highest scoring strain and a contract that will require 'only' 10 tricks to succeed".
Obviously, a good partnership should be prepared for this auction and should have an agreement on which of the above two LOGICAL treatments it prefers.
So...how do the always execrable GIBBO robots play it in their hopeless joke of a system? THEY (stupidly!) play that 4NT by South here would be...a QUANTITATIVE (!!!) invitation in...NO TRUMP! How the HELL can North know what to do with a QUANTITATIVE invitation when neither he NOR his partner South has announced anything even RESEMBLING a point range?
I play robot games every day, and EVERY day I see NEW examples of how devastatingly hopeless and illogical the GIBBO system, the GIB definitions, and the GIBBO robots are! EVERY day my total CONTEMPT for them increases, which I would have thought impossible, because even the first time I ever played with the disgusting misfits I realized that they were sickeningly bad, and even on that FIRST day I thought my contempt for them was unsurpassable. And yet it is CONSTANTLY surpassed, because EVERY day they not only repeat their longstanding lunacies, but they also STILL manage to introduce NEW ones!
They are the worst of the worst. They rot. They suck pumice.
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On the auction in question, what would it have meant if South had bid 4NT over North's 4S?
Some ultra-modern space age bridge scientists might have some fabulous new system that I'm unaware of, but barring that, there are two and only two reasonable uses for 4NT by South at this point in this auction. I'm not talking about this random hand - I'm talking as a GENERAL interpretation for any and all hands where the auction begins this way.
One is KCB for clubs. South opened 1C and COULD have a good hand with long clubs...and his partner North has shown a VERY good hand and club support by cuebidding four SPADES...so South might well be contemplating slam sometimes and might well want to ask about keys.
The other is to have 4NT by South mean "Please PASS, partner. I HEARD your 4S bid, and I KNOW you have a good hand for clubs, but I think our BEST spot (now that you have prevented us from playing in THREE no trump) is 4NT, the highest scoring strain and a contract that will require 'only' 10 tricks to succeed".
Obviously, a good partnership should be prepared for this auction and should have an agreement on which of the above two LOGICAL treatments it prefers.
So...how do the always execrable GIBBO robots play it in their hopeless joke of a system? THEY (stupidly!) play that 4NT by South here would be...a QUANTITATIVE (!!!) invitation in...NO TRUMP! How the HELL can North know what to do with a QUANTITATIVE invitation when neither he NOR his partner South has announced anything even RESEMBLING a point range?
I play robot games every day, and EVERY day I see NEW examples of how devastatingly hopeless and illogical the GIBBO system, the GIB definitions, and the GIBBO robots are! EVERY day my total CONTEMPT for them increases, which I would have thought impossible, because even the first time I ever played with the disgusting misfits I realized that they were sickeningly bad, and even on that FIRST day I thought my contempt for them was unsurpassable. And yet it is CONSTANTLY surpassed, because EVERY day they not only repeat their longstanding lunacies, but they also STILL manage to introduce NEW ones!
They are the worst of the worst. They rot. They suck pumice.
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#1384
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Posted 2026-May-06, 09:37
KNOWING that the reprehensible GIBBO robots are not only horrible bidders but also tend to be OVERbidders...AND knowing that they especially LOVE to jump foolishly, unscientifically, and UNILATERALLY to slams (particularly 6NT), I purposely UNDERbid at my first call in an attempt to head off an ALWAYS expected robotic lunacy before it even had a chance to arise.
Thus, with a full and good twenty-TWO HCP, I purposely opened "only" 2NT, which, according to the GIB definition, shows "20-21 HCP". Had we missed a game or slam, it would have been MY fault, but I was willing to take that chance to avert a disaster of getting too HIGH with the KNOWN madman sitting across from me.
We had an uninterrupted auction with all the room in the world, as the opponents passed throughout.
My ox bid 3S, minor suit Stayman. Had I been playing with a human partner, i would NOT have LIED by opening 2NT, because I TRUST my human partners, since my human partners (unlike the GIBBO dirtbags) are all GOOD players.
Had I been playing with a human partner and had we somehow reached this point in this auction playing the same hideous system as the GIBBO robots (meaning that guns were probably pointed at our heads FORCING us to play it!), for SURE it would have been automatic for me - with a TRUSTED human partner - to bid 4D, easily and honestly showing my four-card minor in answer to my TRUSTED partner's request.
Opposite the sickening lump of decay that I was actually playing with, though, I gave SERIOUS consideration to telling a LIE and DENYING a four-card minor by bidding 3NT over his 3S MSS call.
As it turns out, I SHOULD have lied to the piece of stinking garbage, as you'll soon see.
Unfortunately, I looked at my GREAT hand for diamonds and thought that even with the absolute buffoon I was playing with, it would probably be wise to answer honestly, because I could easily envision a possible slam. Thus, I bid an honest 4D.
Supertwit across from me now bid 4H, which, in their disaster of a system, was defined as "Shortness in hearts - 4+ clubs; 4+ diamonds; 1- heart; 4+ HCP; 5+ total points". The GIB definition was largely useless, as expected, but I figured that North very probably had a GOOD hand, because in my experience, he usually DOES have a GOOD hand when he begins with MSS and later shows shortness.
I actually wanted to now bid 4NT as KCB for diamonds, but as I recall, I checked the definition and saw that in their truly system it would NOT be KCB. (It's possible that I'm incorrect on that, because I didn't write down what 4NT would have been, but I THINK that I AM correct.)
Anyway, I have a FABULOUS hand for diamonds. Just for starters, I have twenty-TWO HCP, when I "promised"..."only" 20 or 21...so I have at LEAST one more point than partner is expecting, and definitely TWO more points than I could have had. But I also have QUALITY: Three of the five diamond keycards, PLUS the queen of diamonds. NO spade losers with AK dub. An excellent FIVE-card heart suit that might well provide a lot of tricks. The ONLY weakness is my K8 doubleton of clubs, but even THAT is not SO bad, because I will be declaring a diamond contract, so EVEN if the opponents have the club ace (which they might not) and EVEN if it's behind my king (which it might NOT be, EVEN if they have it), they will NOT be able to lead THROUGH it at trick one.
I have a GREAT hand for diamonds, but thanks to their HORRENDOUS system, I can't ask for keycards (if I remember correctly). I don't want to be like a disgusting slimeball GIBBO robot and make some unscientific, UNILATERAL guess about the contract or level, so it seems 100 % CLEAR to me that my best shot is 4S, a cuebid for diamonds. Over that, maybe my "partner" can ask for keys with 4NT, since I can't, thanks to their imbecilic and unworkable JOKE of a system (again, assuming that I am remembering correctly).
So, I bid 4D, and...the I.D.I.O.T. across from me...LEAPS...to SEVEN diamonds.
"Well," I very naively think, "this MUST be a claimer, because my hand could not possibly be any better."
WRONG-OLA! Because we...are MISSING the ACE of clubs. Down one. Luckily we have some company in this insane contract, so we at least salvage SOMETHING on the board, as we get 20 %. My "partner", for his leap to SEVEN, had 52, K, KJ10982, Q1074. Couldn't this WORLD-CLASS IMBECILE have checked for keys? Did he think he was being MACHO by leaping to SEVEN...WITHOUT asking for keys? Memo to "partner": Your bidding was not "macho" - it was STUPID and INDEFENSIBLE, you piece of unadulterated slime. As far as HE knew, we had a combined partnership total of "ONLY" 29 or 30 HCP. so we could EASILY have been missing TWO aces...or the ACE-KING of clubs, so we could EASILY have been down TWO just in TOP tricks! HE had no voids, and since I had opened two...NO TRUMP (!!!). he KNEW that I not only had no voids, but also had no singletons! And EVEN if we were not down one...or TWO...off the TOP, the grand might STILL have no play.
What was his "rationale" for his imbecilic leap to seven? Probably this: The (RIDICULOUS!) GIB definition of my 4S call was "Cue bid, 2-4 clubs; 4-5 diamonds; 2-5 hearts; 2-5 spades; 21- HCP; ace of spades; 26+ total points".
How the HELL could I POSSIBLY have "26+ total points" when, as far as my ox knew and as far as the GIB definition knew (thanks to the UNDERBID of 2NT that I had PURPOSELY made at the start to prevent EXACTLY this characteristic robot IDIOCY that ended up occurring anyway!), I had at MOST...at MOST (!!!) a "mere" twenty-ONE HCP? That would mean that to reach "26 total points", let alone the INSANE and IMPOSSIBLE "26 PLUS" (!!!) promised by the FANTASTICALLY STUPID GIB definition, I would have had to have at LEAST...FIVE points for distribution to add on to my base HCP of the 20 or 21 that GIB and my "partner" both "knew" that I had. I could NOT have 5 distribution points! I could have at MOST two, because given that my 2NT opener showed at least two cards in each suit, I could add NO points for voids and NO points for singletons. I could add at MOST two distribution points, and even then, ONLY if I had TWO doubletons (adding one distribution point for each doubleton). Thus, from the perspective of BOTH GIB and my "partner", I could have at the VERY most: a "mere" twenty-THREE "total" points...and that's IF I had 21 HCP (my max, as far as they knew, thanks to my PLANNED opening UNDERbid) AND if I ALSO had TWO doubletons. As far as THEY knew, I might have had "only" 20 HCP, and I might have had NO doubletons, so my "total" points might have been as "low" as TWENTY. But again, even if I had the MOST "total" points that I could POSSIBLY have from their perspective, it would be a "MERE" twenty-THREE...a full THREE (!) fewer than the MINIMUM promised in the IMPOSSIBLE (and impossibly STUPID!) GIB definition of 4S that "promised" not "just" 26 "total" points, but..."26 PLUS"!!!
The GIBBO system STINKS. The GIB definitions are the absolute worst that I have ever seen ANYWHERE...in ANY context. The GIBBO robots are absolute garbage of the worst kind. Why on Earth is this lunacy STILL blemishing BBO? Why does an otherwise excellent bridge site continue to use a MAJOR feature (perhaps the MOST IMPORTANT feature of all) on its platform when that KEY feature (the GIBBO robots, with their accompanying system and definitions) is so MASSIVELY and completely deficient in quality, reliability, and usefulness?
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Thus, with a full and good twenty-TWO HCP, I purposely opened "only" 2NT, which, according to the GIB definition, shows "20-21 HCP". Had we missed a game or slam, it would have been MY fault, but I was willing to take that chance to avert a disaster of getting too HIGH with the KNOWN madman sitting across from me.
We had an uninterrupted auction with all the room in the world, as the opponents passed throughout.
My ox bid 3S, minor suit Stayman. Had I been playing with a human partner, i would NOT have LIED by opening 2NT, because I TRUST my human partners, since my human partners (unlike the GIBBO dirtbags) are all GOOD players.
Had I been playing with a human partner and had we somehow reached this point in this auction playing the same hideous system as the GIBBO robots (meaning that guns were probably pointed at our heads FORCING us to play it!), for SURE it would have been automatic for me - with a TRUSTED human partner - to bid 4D, easily and honestly showing my four-card minor in answer to my TRUSTED partner's request.
Opposite the sickening lump of decay that I was actually playing with, though, I gave SERIOUS consideration to telling a LIE and DENYING a four-card minor by bidding 3NT over his 3S MSS call.
As it turns out, I SHOULD have lied to the piece of stinking garbage, as you'll soon see.
Unfortunately, I looked at my GREAT hand for diamonds and thought that even with the absolute buffoon I was playing with, it would probably be wise to answer honestly, because I could easily envision a possible slam. Thus, I bid an honest 4D.
Supertwit across from me now bid 4H, which, in their disaster of a system, was defined as "Shortness in hearts - 4+ clubs; 4+ diamonds; 1- heart; 4+ HCP; 5+ total points". The GIB definition was largely useless, as expected, but I figured that North very probably had a GOOD hand, because in my experience, he usually DOES have a GOOD hand when he begins with MSS and later shows shortness.
I actually wanted to now bid 4NT as KCB for diamonds, but as I recall, I checked the definition and saw that in their truly system it would NOT be KCB. (It's possible that I'm incorrect on that, because I didn't write down what 4NT would have been, but I THINK that I AM correct.)
Anyway, I have a FABULOUS hand for diamonds. Just for starters, I have twenty-TWO HCP, when I "promised"..."only" 20 or 21...so I have at LEAST one more point than partner is expecting, and definitely TWO more points than I could have had. But I also have QUALITY: Three of the five diamond keycards, PLUS the queen of diamonds. NO spade losers with AK dub. An excellent FIVE-card heart suit that might well provide a lot of tricks. The ONLY weakness is my K8 doubleton of clubs, but even THAT is not SO bad, because I will be declaring a diamond contract, so EVEN if the opponents have the club ace (which they might not) and EVEN if it's behind my king (which it might NOT be, EVEN if they have it), they will NOT be able to lead THROUGH it at trick one.
I have a GREAT hand for diamonds, but thanks to their HORRENDOUS system, I can't ask for keycards (if I remember correctly). I don't want to be like a disgusting slimeball GIBBO robot and make some unscientific, UNILATERAL guess about the contract or level, so it seems 100 % CLEAR to me that my best shot is 4S, a cuebid for diamonds. Over that, maybe my "partner" can ask for keys with 4NT, since I can't, thanks to their imbecilic and unworkable JOKE of a system (again, assuming that I am remembering correctly).
So, I bid 4D, and...the I.D.I.O.T. across from me...LEAPS...to SEVEN diamonds.
"Well," I very naively think, "this MUST be a claimer, because my hand could not possibly be any better."
WRONG-OLA! Because we...are MISSING the ACE of clubs. Down one. Luckily we have some company in this insane contract, so we at least salvage SOMETHING on the board, as we get 20 %. My "partner", for his leap to SEVEN, had 52, K, KJ10982, Q1074. Couldn't this WORLD-CLASS IMBECILE have checked for keys? Did he think he was being MACHO by leaping to SEVEN...WITHOUT asking for keys? Memo to "partner": Your bidding was not "macho" - it was STUPID and INDEFENSIBLE, you piece of unadulterated slime. As far as HE knew, we had a combined partnership total of "ONLY" 29 or 30 HCP. so we could EASILY have been missing TWO aces...or the ACE-KING of clubs, so we could EASILY have been down TWO just in TOP tricks! HE had no voids, and since I had opened two...NO TRUMP (!!!). he KNEW that I not only had no voids, but also had no singletons! And EVEN if we were not down one...or TWO...off the TOP, the grand might STILL have no play.
What was his "rationale" for his imbecilic leap to seven? Probably this: The (RIDICULOUS!) GIB definition of my 4S call was "Cue bid, 2-4 clubs; 4-5 diamonds; 2-5 hearts; 2-5 spades; 21- HCP; ace of spades; 26+ total points".
How the HELL could I POSSIBLY have "26+ total points" when, as far as my ox knew and as far as the GIB definition knew (thanks to the UNDERBID of 2NT that I had PURPOSELY made at the start to prevent EXACTLY this characteristic robot IDIOCY that ended up occurring anyway!), I had at MOST...at MOST (!!!) a "mere" twenty-ONE HCP? That would mean that to reach "26 total points", let alone the INSANE and IMPOSSIBLE "26 PLUS" (!!!) promised by the FANTASTICALLY STUPID GIB definition, I would have had to have at LEAST...FIVE points for distribution to add on to my base HCP of the 20 or 21 that GIB and my "partner" both "knew" that I had. I could NOT have 5 distribution points! I could have at MOST two, because given that my 2NT opener showed at least two cards in each suit, I could add NO points for voids and NO points for singletons. I could add at MOST two distribution points, and even then, ONLY if I had TWO doubletons (adding one distribution point for each doubleton). Thus, from the perspective of BOTH GIB and my "partner", I could have at the VERY most: a "mere" twenty-THREE "total" points...and that's IF I had 21 HCP (my max, as far as they knew, thanks to my PLANNED opening UNDERbid) AND if I ALSO had TWO doubletons. As far as THEY knew, I might have had "only" 20 HCP, and I might have had NO doubletons, so my "total" points might have been as "low" as TWENTY. But again, even if I had the MOST "total" points that I could POSSIBLY have from their perspective, it would be a "MERE" twenty-THREE...a full THREE (!) fewer than the MINIMUM promised in the IMPOSSIBLE (and impossibly STUPID!) GIB definition of 4S that "promised" not "just" 26 "total" points, but..."26 PLUS"!!!
The GIBBO system STINKS. The GIB definitions are the absolute worst that I have ever seen ANYWHERE...in ANY context. The GIBBO robots are absolute garbage of the worst kind. Why on Earth is this lunacy STILL blemishing BBO? Why does an otherwise excellent bridge site continue to use a MAJOR feature (perhaps the MOST IMPORTANT feature of all) on its platform when that KEY feature (the GIBBO robots, with their accompanying system and definitions) is so MASSIVELY and completely deficient in quality, reliability, and usefulness?
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#1385
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Posted Yesterday, 04:39
MANDATED auction. Mandated by...GIBBO...so of COURSE it is ridiculous.
South's bid of (ONLY!) 3D on the second round is defined as showing "6+ total points" - not EVEN 6+ HCP, mind you, which would also be insane, but 6+ "TOTAL" points, so he could have even FEWER than 6 HIGH-CARD points. Needless to say, 3D is not forcing. It's not even invitational.
And how many points DOES South have? He has...FIFTEEN (!!!) HIGH(!)-card points...yet GIBBO thinks that a PERFECT bid is a NON-FORCING, NON-INVITATIONAL 3D!
Is GIBBO one of the absolutely WORST bidders of ALL time...ANYWHERE?
Well, I think the 3D bid - all by itself - answers the question VERY well! GIBBO absolutely ROTS!
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South's bid of (ONLY!) 3D on the second round is defined as showing "6+ total points" - not EVEN 6+ HCP, mind you, which would also be insane, but 6+ "TOTAL" points, so he could have even FEWER than 6 HIGH-CARD points. Needless to say, 3D is not forcing. It's not even invitational.
And how many points DOES South have? He has...FIFTEEN (!!!) HIGH(!)-card points...yet GIBBO thinks that a PERFECT bid is a NON-FORCING, NON-INVITATIONAL 3D!
Is GIBBO one of the absolutely WORST bidders of ALL time...ANYWHERE?
Well, I think the 3D bid - all by itself - answers the question VERY well! GIBBO absolutely ROTS!
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Posted Yesterday, 04:53
Another auction mandated by GIBBO, which of COURSE means another ASTOUNDINGLY IMBECILIC auction, because GIBBO stinks!
North's balancing 1NT in fourth seat is defined as showing "11-15 HCP". North's HAND is AQ72, 973,A5, AK104. He has a very good SEVENTEEN points, including three aces, a king, and a queen that combines with one of the aces. He has two points more than his defined MAXIMUM and SIX more than his possible minimum. The bid is absolutely ridiculous...and yet it does not even come CLOSE to being the worst bid in this insane auction mandated by the loathsome GIBBO! That's because...
South bids 3C, a transfer to diamonds, and North...PASSES! He PASSES the transfer!
But PLEASE, all you people who say that "GIBBO is better than most human players", PLEASE...by ALL means... keep saying it...so that the REST of us can have a good LAUGH!
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North's balancing 1NT in fourth seat is defined as showing "11-15 HCP". North's HAND is AQ72, 973,A5, AK104. He has a very good SEVENTEEN points, including three aces, a king, and a queen that combines with one of the aces. He has two points more than his defined MAXIMUM and SIX more than his possible minimum. The bid is absolutely ridiculous...and yet it does not even come CLOSE to being the worst bid in this insane auction mandated by the loathsome GIBBO! That's because...
South bids 3C, a transfer to diamonds, and North...PASSES! He PASSES the transfer!
But PLEASE, all you people who say that "GIBBO is better than most human players", PLEASE...by ALL means... keep saying it...so that the REST of us can have a good LAUGH!
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Posted Yesterday, 05:04
Mandated by GIBBO again, so of COURSE it's ridiculous again. North's 2NT is defined as showing "15+ HCP". He actually HAS...an aceless ELEVEN! Compare this hand, where he ridiculously overbids, to the one immediately above where he ridiculously underbids (AND...passes a transfer!). These deviants can't even be consistent in their I.D.I.O.C.Y. They are the absolute worst of the worst. WHY have they not LONG AGO been discarded and replaced by DECENT robots?
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Posted Yesterday, 05:13
Diamonds are played TWICE, yet East-West NEVER take their diamond ace. North-South take 12 tricks and score 97.37 % on the board. East-West, for their STERLING "defence" score 2.63 %, which is approximately 2.63 % more than they deserve.
Yes, the "defenders" indeed WERE GIBBO robots, but tell me: How did you EVER guess that? (BTW, this was another mandated auction.)
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Yes, the "defenders" indeed WERE GIBBO robots, but tell me: How did you EVER guess that? (BTW, this was another mandated auction.)
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Posted Yesterday, 05:21
Another mandated and hopeless GIBBO auction. North's 2S is defined as showing "9 HCP". He has 7.
But more importantly, and probably because of the antiquated and unworkable GIBBO joke of a system, these clueless twits apparently have NO way to play in clubs, so they play in a ludicrous 2NT (!) with a "stopper" of stiff 4 opposite 932 tripleton. GIBBO is a worldwide embarrassment.
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But more importantly, and probably because of the antiquated and unworkable GIBBO joke of a system, these clueless twits apparently have NO way to play in clubs, so they play in a ludicrous 2NT (!) with a "stopper" of stiff 4 opposite 932 tripleton. GIBBO is a worldwide embarrassment.
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Posted Yesterday, 05:27
Mandated again. Ridiculous again. Ludicrous auction to a ludicrous contract...again.
You know, I can't imagine why, but I'm starting to suspect that the GIBBO might not be good bidders.
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You know, I can't imagine why, but I'm starting to suspect that the GIBBO might not be good bidders.
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Posted Yesterday, 05:40
Mandated auction again. South PRESUMABLY described his hand well (and if not, then why not?) with his 3C call, so why on EARTH would he have ANY reason to slap his partner North in the face by overruling North's 3NT bid and pulling to 4C? EVEN if his decision happens to "work" (as it DID on THIS random layout), that does still not justify it. Among other issues, with HUMANS it would completely destroy partnership trust and harmony for all future hands. Now, whether or not NORTH'S decision to try 3NT was wise is ANOTHER question!
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Posted Yesterday, 06:09
Keeping PERFECTLY in character, the clueless GIBBO robot in the West decides that he would MUCH rather lead...DECLARER'S KNOWN FIRST SUIT...than EITHER of the two KNOWN suits held by himself and his partner East. It seems that these harebrained losers are CONTINUING to breakfast each morning on several bowls of stupidity pills - the EXTRA-strength kind.
https://www.bridgeba...D6%7Cmc%7C11%7C
https://www.bridgeba...D6%7Cmc%7C11%7C
#1393
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Posted Yesterday, 06:16
GREAT "defence", GIBBO East and West - TRULY great.
Then again, perhaps I'm being just a TINY bit generous in handing out that "praise", because despite your (typically!) EXCELLENT "defence", it appears that for some TRULY strange reason, you only scored 3.26 % on the board.
Golly gee, I wonder how THAT could have happened, considering your TRULY remarkable "defence"?
(Imbeciles!)
https://www.bridgeba...C5%7Cpc%7CC2%7C
Then again, perhaps I'm being just a TINY bit generous in handing out that "praise", because despite your (typically!) EXCELLENT "defence", it appears that for some TRULY strange reason, you only scored 3.26 % on the board.
Golly gee, I wonder how THAT could have happened, considering your TRULY remarkable "defence"?
(Imbeciles!)
https://www.bridgeba...C5%7Cpc%7CC2%7C
#1394
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Posted Yesterday, 06:27
South wins West's heart lead at trick one and fires a heart right back at trick two. West wins and figures it MUST be right to continue HEARTS, because these addlepated dweebs are so phenomenally stupid that they STILL haven't learned that it's usually NOT wise to play the same suit that DECLARER is playing.
There's an ungrammatical cliché that says "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", but the GIBBO robots are actually EXTREMELY "broke" - SO "broke", in fact, that I don't think they CAN be "fixed". They CAN, however, be...incinerated! Hint, hint!
https://www.bridgeba...SJ%7Cpc%7CC8%7C
There's an ungrammatical cliché that says "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", but the GIBBO robots are actually EXTREMELY "broke" - SO "broke", in fact, that I don't think they CAN be "fixed". They CAN, however, be...incinerated! Hint, hint!
https://www.bridgeba...SJ%7Cpc%7CC8%7C
#1395
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Posted Yesterday, 06:33
Another absolute JOKE of a "defence" for the abhorrent and ignorant GIBBO "defenders". Another absolute ZERO to add to their massive collection of total failures.
The FUNNIEST part of this particular travesty is the way they totally butcher the heart suit. I have never, EVER seen "bridge players" as thoroughly and outrageously incompetent as the disgusting GIB/GIBBO robots.
https://www.bridgeba...D7%7Cmc%7C10%7C
The FUNNIEST part of this particular travesty is the way they totally butcher the heart suit. I have never, EVER seen "bridge players" as thoroughly and outrageously incompetent as the disgusting GIB/GIBBO robots.
https://www.bridgeba...D7%7Cmc%7C10%7C
#1396
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Posted Yesterday, 06:59
Observe West's peculiar 1NT and 2NT bids. He obviously learned his bidding...ahem..."skills"...at the GIBBO Institute of Bridge Bidding. Maybe that's also where he learned his declarer play...ahem..."skills", because he went down TWO in 3NT.
https://www.bridgeba...DQ%7Cpc%7CH8%7C
https://www.bridgeba...DQ%7Cpc%7CH8%7C
#1397
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Posted Yesterday, 07:03
Forgetting about the random layout of this random hand, but just on general principles, if West chooses to lead a diamond, why does he WASTE the ten?
https://www.bridgeba...HJ%7Cmc%7C11%7C
https://www.bridgeba...HJ%7Cmc%7C11%7C
#1398
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Posted Yesterday, 07:14
Look at the almost completely useless GIB definition of North's 3S for an instant course on how hopeless and worthless the GIBBO system is.
https://www.bridgeba...C7%7Cpc%7CHQ%7C
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#1399
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Posted Yesterday, 07:18
Bad bids ALL on just on this ONE SINGLE HAND:
Double
2D
2S
THREE (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) DIAMONDS!
Three...HEARTS!
https://www.bridgeba...CHQ%7Cmc%7C8%7C
Double
2D
2S
THREE (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) DIAMONDS!
Three...HEARTS!
https://www.bridgeba...CHQ%7Cmc%7C8%7C
#1400
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Posted Yesterday, 10:50
Fellow BBO member OMARHEUM, who also plays in the robot games, has again sent me a hand and given me permission to post it here. I will actually write TWO posts, this one and the one that will immediately follow it. The reason is that OMAR sent me a link to what happened at HIS table, which I will discuss here, and he also sent me a link to what happened with the same hand at a different table, which I will discuss in the post right after this.
So, the link in THIS post is to what happened at OMAR's table. He wrote "My result which occurred 54 times after I opened 1NT and then showed what I had. Overtrick with the actual lead."
As you can see, the GIBBO robot in the North took over captaincy (ALWAYS a bad sign!) and conducted a poor and ill-prepared auction that ended with NS in a 6H slam off two cashing club tricks. But luckily for OMAR and his less-than-clever (to put it VERY mildly!) robot "partner", a GIBBO robot was ALSO on lead and of course, as expected, made a LOSING lead. Thus, the BAD, "impossible" slam made with an overtrick, as OMAR mentioned. Note that the opening LEADER was LOOKING AT the ace of clubs in his OWN hand.
https://www.bridgeba...H3%7Cmc%7C13%7C
So, the link in THIS post is to what happened at OMAR's table. He wrote "My result which occurred 54 times after I opened 1NT and then showed what I had. Overtrick with the actual lead."
As you can see, the GIBBO robot in the North took over captaincy (ALWAYS a bad sign!) and conducted a poor and ill-prepared auction that ended with NS in a 6H slam off two cashing club tricks. But luckily for OMAR and his less-than-clever (to put it VERY mildly!) robot "partner", a GIBBO robot was ALSO on lead and of course, as expected, made a LOSING lead. Thus, the BAD, "impossible" slam made with an overtrick, as OMAR mentioned. Note that the opening LEADER was LOOKING AT the ace of clubs in his OWN hand.
https://www.bridgeba...H3%7Cmc%7C13%7C