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Benellis58 GIB bashing on repeat Groundhog Day

#781 User is offline   benellis58 

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Posted 2026-March-07, 20:33

The imbecilic GIBBO robot (sorry for the repetition) in the West STUPIDLY and for NO reason pops his spade ace at trick 4, crashing his partner's king and turning their three "GUARANTEED" trump (!) tricks into only two.

There are not enough words in the English language to even come CLOSE to describing how unfathomably stupid, clueless, and hopeless the GIBBO robots are. They are sickeningly, disgustingly bad.

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Posted 2026-March-07, 21:08

My double of 1C is pretty bad with only a small doubleton diamond, but I figured that many of the humans might make it, so I did it to go along with what I thought (rightly or wrongly) would probably be the action taken by a large part of the field.

All the humans are well aware that in a robot game their partner is an incompetent fool and their two opponents also are, so liberties are often taken with the bidding.

But let's get to the PURPOSE of this post, which is to BASH the imbecilic GIBBO bidding and the REMARKABLY poor GIBBO system and definitions...all of which belong in a garbage heap.

After East opens 1C, doubled by South and passed by West, North, holding K7642, K932, AJ6, 4, chooses to bid 2C, which is fine. East doubles. South and West pass, and now, now, NOW, North bids two HEARTS. That's right: He bids his FOUR-card heart suit rather than his FIVE-card spade suit. Why does he do this? Well, probably because he's a GIBBO robot and they specialize in doing stupid, illogical, braindead things. Anyway...

East competes with 3C, South and West pass, and North now...bids four...SPADES! Note that because of his earlier UNFATHOMABLE decision to stupidly bid HEARTS rather than spades, he now feels COMPELLED to show his spades...for the first time EVER...at the four level. Not only has this *****ous jabroni REVERSED at an UNCOMFORTABLY high level, he has also totally MISDESCRIBED his hand, because his auction shows longer hearts than spades (or SHOULD show that!) even though he actually has longer SPADES than hearts. If you TRIED to construct a stupider robot, you probably would find it impossible, because the laughably named "Ginsberg's Intelligent Bridgeplayer" (sic) is outstandingly stupid.

And the GIB definition comically proves that this TOTALLY witless auction by North is actually FINE (!!!!!!!!!!) as far as GIB and GIBBO are concerned, because the GIB definition of 4S is "4+ hearts; 5+ spades; 12+ HCP; 13-18 total points"...so clearly GIB/GIBBO thinks it's PERFECTLY normal to bid your four-bagger BEFORE your five-bagger (!) and then to REVERSE at a HIGH level.

No WONDER the GIBBO robots are so outrageously hopeless at all aspects of bridge, when they're handcuffed by such a ridiculous, illogical system and such reprehensible definitions. My contempt for the system, the definitions, and the robots continues to grow each and every day.

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Posted 2026-March-07, 21:29

Against South's 3NT West makes a typically illogical and bizarre lead of the 9 of spades from 92, J7, AQ4, J107543, but he TOTALLY lucks out, because in his dazed and confused show of ignorance, he has actually STUMBLED into the KILLING lead. He has ZERO intelligence, but he has a TON of good luck.

BUT...after winning trick four with his diamond queen, he does NOT play a second spade.

That's okay, though, because at trick five he cashes his diamond ace, so he's still on lead at trick six and can still play a second spade, which will defeat the contract by FOUR (!) tricks.

At trick six he leads a...DIAMOND (!) even though he's LOOKING AT the HIGH diamond jack in the dummy. South takes all the remaining tricks except trick 13, so...

South MAKES his 3NT contract with exactly 9 tricks...rather than GOING DOWN FOUR if West had played a spade instead of a diamond.

But by ALL means, dear GIB and GIBBO advocates and defenders, PLEASE keep telling the world how the robots are "better than most human players".

Please be advised, however, dear GIB and GIBBO defenders, that I don't think I would ever buy a USED CAR from any of you.

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Posted Yesterday, 05:32

Just popping in for an instant to remind everyone that the GIBBO robots are absolutely horrendous at bridge and that they are worse than even the worst human bridge player I have ever encountered.

That's all for now. See you later.
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Posted Yesterday, 06:43

Just popping in briefly again to make the point that my contempt for the GIBBO robots increases each and every day. They absolutely rot. Will they EVER receive the improvements they quite obviously require? I'll be back later. Bye for now.
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Posted Yesterday, 10:26

GIBBO "logic". GIBBO "bidding". GIBBO "signaling". GIBBO "defending". GIB definitions. We have it ALL!

North passes. East, white against red, opens a normal 2H. Congratulations to East for that, because "normal" is about the BEST the GIBBO robots can EVER do.

South, the only human in the game, has a dilemma. He has 20 HCP, but no GOOD call. His hearts, the suit his RHO just opened, are J8 doubleton, so bidding NT is out. He has only a doubleton spade, so a takeout double looks wrong. He can't risk PASSING with TWENTY HCP. He decides that the best of a BAD lot is 3C. His mangy suit is miserable for a three level overcall, but at least he has five of them (and even THAT isn't great) and his overall strength (20 HCP) might compensate for his lousy clubs.

West, with K, Q732, 10982, KQ96, can't dredge up either a 3H or 4H bid. Why the Hell NOT? These clowns, with four card trump support opposite a weak two, almost always leap to FOUR of pard's suit, with the accompanying GIB definition saying something to the effect of "The Law: 4 trumps - 10 tricks, 4 level"...or thereabouts, yet THIS twit in the West PASSES South's 3C, probably (I'm guessing), because he has KQ96 of clubs himself and expects to beat the contract 103 or 104 tricks (ha, ha). What a rube!

Now North, with QJ109653,4, 763, 104, LEAPS to 4S, defined as "10-11 HCP; strong rebiddable spades; 11-12 total points". I don't see why he has to have at least 10 HCP, but apparently neither does North, because he has a mere...three HCP! I think a THREE spade bid by him would be fine, but FOUR is pushing it, considering that he has a full seven HCP fewer than the minimum promised by his own GIB definition...AND considering that he has an EIGHT(!!!)-loser hand. Sure, he knows from my 3C call that I have values, but do I have to have ENOUGH values to cover his EIGHT losers? And if I do have enough, surely I won't be passing 3S (!) so there is no need for him to leap to four.

As is so often the case with these fleabrains, his 4S bid can ONLY cost and CANNOT gain. If I have enough for us to make 4S, we'll get there anyway, because I will bid over 3S, but if we don't have enough for 4S, I'll pass 3S and we'll either get a plus for making three rather than a minus for going down in four...OR even if we fail in a mere three spades, we'll STILL go down one less than we would in four spades. And there's even an ADDITIONAL flaw to North's 4S bid: If South has the MOOSE required to make 4S, he might sometimes go looking for slam (expecting a better North hand, as per the GIB definition) and end up playing - and going down - in five or even six spades when (only) four was cold.

The result was fine (92.9 % for making 4S with two overtricks when I dropped the stiff offside spade king) but that doesn't excuse the poor bidding by West or North.

Now, as for "signaling" and "defending": DO the robots even or ever signal? East leads the king of hearts. West has Q732. He follows with the...DEUCE. Now, IF the robots signal (?), it's standard, NOT upside down...but is it count or attitude? Who KNOWS (?), but it's IRRELEVANT here anyway, because playing standard attitude, West would not play the 2, and playing standard count, West would not play the two either! So either they DON'T signal (which would be STUPID)...OR they DO signal (in which case West made a signaling ERROR - which would ALSO be stupid!), so WHATEVER the story is, the one thing we know for certain is that the GIBBO robots are...STUPID!

But wait! What if the 2 of clubs was actually suit preference, asking for a club shift at trick two? Well, in that case, West's club deuce would have been correct (bravo!)...EXCEPT that: First, I really don't think these *****ous jerks EVER play suit preference. Second, if it WAS suit preference, then EAST erred by not shifting to clubs at trick two. So, any way you slice it, we're back to the one indisputable moral of this story, which is that...the GIBBO robots are...STUPID - overwhelmingly STUPID!

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Posted Yesterday, 10:35

Red against white, facing a partner who passed at both his previous tuns to bid, facing off against opponents who opened the bidding in the South and freely competed to the three level in the North, West, who has already previously bid Michaels, now doubles...pretty much forcing his partner to the FOUR level.

West gets what he deserves: a score of ZERO percent on the board...to add to the MASSIVE collection of ZEROES he has accumulated over the course of his shameful, humiliating joke of a bridge career.

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Posted Yesterday, 10:44

West STUPIDLY plays his spade ten (trump) from J1072 when declarer plays dummy's stiff 3 at trick two. Did the cowardly, ignorant halfwit actually think that declarer would be sticking in some SPOT lower than the ten (!) and that that spot would WIN the trick? These feebleminded jerks often needlessly and foolishly split just like this miserable excuse for a bridge player did here...and it often costs them a trick...just as it did with this loser here. The GIBBO robots absolutely ROT!

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Posted Yesterday, 17:46

Even though I have written hundreds of posts here to criticize the clueless, incompetent GIBBO robots and/or their hopeless, antiquated system and/or their really bad GIB definitions, I feel that I should point out that there are countless other hands that I also could have documented to record their unending aberrations. On almost every hand, there is something bad. Sometimes their lunacy doesn't cost, and sometimes they miraculously even benefit from their bizarre actions, but often - and very justifiably - their immense lack of skill does hurt them. They commit so many astoundingly egregious blunders that it's impossible to document them all, but it's usually wise to assume that a GIBBO robot will do something ludicrous whether he's your (shudder!) "partner" or your opponent.
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Posted Yesterday, 17:47

Have I seen better defences? Yes, now that you mention it, I have. Watch these two GIBBO bozos in action:

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Posted Yesterday, 17:57

At trick two, the GIBBO robot sitting West wins his diamond queen. At trick three, he decides to shift to a heart from 1095. Which of his three hearts should he play? Some would say the 10 (top of a sequence). Aome would say the 5 (low from three to an honour). I can see a case being made for either, depending on your partnership agreements and your personal preferences.

What does the GIBBO robot lead? The...nine...the ONE card that, barring some special sort of agreement, does not make sense. Why am I not surprised???!!!

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Posted Yesterday, 18:35

Trick four: The ignorant GIBBO robot (sorry for the redundancy!) in the East leads the QUEEN (!!!) of hearts from AQ doubleton! This "brilliantly" mangles the defensive communications (and probably also bewilders his "partner" West), so that they CAN'T immediately take their three TOP heart tricks and so that East, not West. is on lead after taking only two heart tricks.

North-South score 92.9 % on the board for going down "only" two tricks. East-West score 7.1 %, which is 7.1 % MORE than they deserve. They are completely hopeless!

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Posted Yesterday, 18:41

Another hand where EW "defend". Another hand where EW score 7.1 %.

But don't worry, because they don't always have to "defend", and their bidding is as "good" as their "defending".

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Posted Yesterday, 18:51

Another hand, another butchered "defence". At least they scored higher here though: They picked up a MAGNIFICENT (by their "standards") 42.9 % for botching this one. All East had to do at trick seven was to play a spade instead of stupidly playing his queen of hearts, but that was WAY too tough for the GIBBO robot!

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Posted Today, 05:54

North's 3H bid shows how bad the GIBBO system is and/or how hopeless the GIBBO robots are - neither of which is a surprise.

3H is defined as "Invite - 6+ hearts; 2- spades; 9-11 HCP; queen of hearts".

North's hand is VOID, KJ10874, K103, K1082.

Yes, I see that his hand (for once!) fits the definition...but I ALSO see that, looking only at the North hand (as North himself is doing during the auction) his hand is potentially suitable for THREE strains (hearts, diamonds, and clubs) depending on what his partner has...but he has JAMMED the auction and wasted valuable bidding space, making it difficult for the partnership to determine the best spot.

These remarks are related to the WEAKNESS exposed here by the GIBBO system regarding this type of bid, rather than to the result on this particular random hand (which was a fairly normal contract with a fairly normal result of 59.32 %).

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Posted Today, 06:22

As South, I passed over East's 3D. Why? Because 3NT was defined (rather stupidly, in my opinion) as 25-27 HCP, and I had "only" 24, and a "bad" 24 at that, since my KQ doubleton in the enemy suit (diamonds) would probably not be worth the 5 HCP it technically counted as. Furthermore, the GIBBO robots are always BAD bidders, but they also tend to be OVERbidders who LOVE to make unscientific and wildly optimistic jumps to 6NT for no logical reason, so I certainly didn't want to overstate the strength of MY hand. My only five-bagger was clubs, but I didn't want to waste the whole three level of bidding space AND at the same time bypass 3NT, so I didn't want to bid 4C. I also didn't want to bid 3S on a shabby four-bagger, and it was unclear what doubling 3D would mean - besides which the hopelessly incompetent GIBBO robots usually do the WRONG thing over many doubles of that sort.

Thus, with NO good call, I figured I'd pass and see what North did. Having opened TWO CLUBS, I was safe in doing this. Well, I thought I was safe anyway, but I was playing with...a GIBBO robot, who PASSED. I had violated the cardinal rule: When your "partner" is a GIBBO robot, you should ALWAYS assume that he is an ignorant fool who will come up with creative new ways to show the world his unmatched level of mind-boggling stupidity.

All's well that ends (sort of, anyway) well, as we scored 69.05 % for beating 3D one trick, but how on Earth could that brainless lump of sludge in the North chair ever pass? He didn't even have a "bad" hand, considering that he was opposite a TWO CLUB opener! The abysmally ignorant twit had a childishly EASY 3S call with QJ842, 962, 65, 1083. The GIBBO robot upheld the reputation of his brethren as disgusting and embarrassing examples of the worst "bridge players" I have ever seen...EXCEPT of course, for their recent predecessors, who were even WORSE than the new and improved GIBBO ones.

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Posted Today, 06:33

Typically stupid lead by the GIBBO robot in the West. Stupid heart shift by East at trick three. Ridiculous drop of the heart queen by West on that same trick three. Silly play of the heart 10 by East at trick five.

Inescapable conclusions, based on the evidence of this hand and thousands of others: The GIBBO robots are an abomination. They stink at bridge. They ROT.

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Posted Today, 06:51

On what PLANET does East's three SPADE bid make sense? Oh, sorry - silly question. I forgot that East is a GIBBO robot, so of COURSE the "planet" is...BIZARRO WORLD!

The EW *****s stop in 4D, ice COLD for five. Maybe East didn't notice his EIGHT diamonds. Whatever the reasons, these two stooges "earned" their well-deserved score of ZERO percent on the board, adding to their MASSIVE lifetime collection of ZEROES.

Who were these two GIBBO robots? Well, I wouldn't want to be nasty and give their names, possibly exposing them to ridicule, so I'll just call them GIBBO Twit Number One and GIBBO Twit Number Two. I have nothing but contempt for the GIBBO robots as "bridge players", but I harbour no PERSONAL dislike of them. Quite the reverse, as they are VERY generous in GIVING AWAY matchpoints time...after time...after time...

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Posted Today, 06:55

East must have swallowed a handful of cowardice pills before sitting down to play. Even red versus white, he should SURELY have bid 5D.

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Posted Today, 07:09

Trick two: North stupidly (what else is new?) plays the heart king instead of the easy, simple, normal, correct nine. But, yes, all those who say that the GIBBO robots are "better than most human players", by ALL means keep repeating that laughable mantra!

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