[benellis58]

I've mentioned before that when I play in a game with three robots, I often operate and/or "experiment" and do bizarre things that I would never dream of doing in a "real" bridge game with humans. There are several reasons for this:

1. If my operation ends in a disaster, I hurt only myself, and not a (human) partner or (human) teammates,

2. It's fun...and nothing of importance is at stake. It's not as if a failed operation in a robot game is going to cost ne the Spingold.

3. Since I have three GIBBO robots at the table, I know right from the star that my "partner" is an ignorant, clueless C.R.E.T.I.N. who is absolutely and irredeemably hopeless at bridge, and that my opponents are equally woeful.

4. The operations turn out well more often than not. Why is that? Re-read point three above, and it will tell you exactly why.

THIS hand is a good example:

First, I bizarrely opened 1NT rather than a normal 1H. Then, opposite a silent partner and against two opponents who had bid up to 3D, I merrily trotted in with a 3H call. West passed, and my formerly silent partner "corrected" to 3S. East doubled and everyone passed.

It looked like this was going to be a FAILED operation, and against any DECENT pair it would have been. But our opponents were obviously not a "decent" pair, they were two typically clueless, imbecilic GIBBO robots, so 3S doubled actually made. Why? Because the simpleminded fool in the East made the remarkably stupid lead of a HEART (MY suit!) rather than EITHER minor (the two suits that the dweeb's "PARTNER" had shown),. Thus, I lost only three spades and the ace of clubs, as I was able to pitch BOTH of my two TOP diamond losers.

Consequently, I will continue to operate against these braindead, nauseatingly stupid GIBBO pieces of trash.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/y7xf6e6x

[benellis58]

I scored 71.4 % on this board for going down "only" one in 3NT. My 3NT call was perhaps a bit pushy, but when pard opens a weak two in a game with three GIBBO robots, I tend to bid aggressively because I expect to get a truly wretched "defence" from the dweebs - and more often than not, I do,

On this hand, for example, although I didn't make it, the reason that I went down ONLY one is that West made a bad lead. Because he is a GIBBO robot, he is a MASTER of bad...and perverse leads, as he demonstrated here. On a relatively blind auction, and knowing only that North had a weak two in diamonds and South had a decent number of HCP (18-21 according to the GIB definition, although I actually had only 14), he was on lead with 108532, AK98, 4, K98. He tabled the 8 of hearts. In fairness, he probably did better than his immediate predecessors, the truly dreadful and repulsive GIB robots, would have done, because I had the equivalent of this auction many times against those hopeless C.R.E.T.I.N.S., and - imbeciles that they were - they VERY often led dummy's KNOWN six-bagger!

West's heart lead DID at least beat the contract, but not as much as the superior and more normal spade lead would have.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p8e2bb3

[benellis58]

I scored 85.7 % on this board for going down "only" one in a contract of one lowly spade, so it worked out fine...but why DID North BID one SPADE in response to my ONE HEART opening with his J932, 652, Q97, K63? Surely 2H would be a more normal call for most players.

And regardless of result, note East's typically bizarre lead of a HEART on THIS auction, rather than a normal club lead. These drokes LOVE to lead OUR suits.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yhd38rbe