[benellis58]

At trick three, the ignorant piece of trash sitting in the North stupidly and ridiculously pops his spade king, thereby crashing his "partner's" ace and immediately turning their two "guaranteed" TRUMP tricks into only one. Annoying as it was, this was not at ALL surprising, because it frequently happens with these braindead pieces of junk known as GIBBO robots. Please improve them - IMMENSELY - or please get rid of them. They are an embarrassment to bridge. They are an embarrassment to BBO.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yxne9rav

[johnu]

benellis58, on 2026-March-25, 01:03, said:

Why it pays to just blast into a game when you're playing with and against the clueless saps known as GIBBO robots:

Check out the MONSTROUSLY stupid lead by the ALWAYS-MONSTROUSLY stupid GIBBO robot in the West seat.

Have I ever mentioned that in my entire life I have never EVER seen even a SINGLE human bridge player as strikingly hopeless and disgustingly inept at bridge as the repulsive GIBBO robots? Oh, I HAVE? Well then, sorry for the repetition, but I confess that I'll probably say it AGAIN at some point, because the GIBBO robots are just SO bad!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/24nb5hac

Good lead by West GIBBO. If you lead a diamond, you might get a plus score.

[benellis58]

North's 2H and 3H are both defined (stupidly, as usual) as "5+ diamonds, 12+ HCP, 13+ total points".

His hand is K, AJ98753, 10743, J.

No further comment required.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/22xaexay

[benellis58]

The GIBBO robots are not just horrible bridge players. They are also horrible partners, as even the GIBBO robot sitting West would probably attest to, after what his imbecilic stooge of a "partner" did.

The perpetually clueless GIBBO robot in the East bids 3C:

With a mere 13 HCP, after having already opened 1C;
With a mere FOUR clubs, after having already opened 1C;
With a PANCAKE FLAT 3-3-3-4 shape;
RED against WHITE;
In DIRECT, NOT passout, seat...which, in addition to being TREMENDOUSLY stupid (a GIBBO specialty) is also slapping his partner in the face.

And the braindead sap isn't even following his own GIB definition, which says that he has "5+ clubs".

The GIBBO robots ROT. Please improve them drastically or take them to the nearest garbage dump and replace them with COMPETENT robots.

https://tinyurl.bridgebase.com/mrd87az

[benellis58]

Just LOOK at the EW auction. No need to waste time describing this typically ridiculous GIBBO bidding.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p8nmr3y

[benellis58]

West's passed-hand double promises "5+" cards in both majors. As is so often the case, he's defying his own GIB definition, because he only has FOUR hearts.

I frequently defy the GIB definitions myself (in fact, I did it on this very hand), but I do it because it's not MY system and I firmly believe that the GIBBO system and the GIB definitions both suck pumice. The GIBBO robots, however, are supposed to FOLLOW their OWN system.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, as a passed hand, the GIBBO robots play that a double of 1NT shows at least 5-5 in the majors (as defined in this very hand) but that 2D also shows at least 5-5 in the majors (whether as a passed OR unpassed hand). If that's the case, then...WHY? Why waste TWO calls to show the SAME thing?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/nhazaxx2

[benellis58]

Why is East leading the ace of hearts on this hand? It didn't cost him, but on another random layout it COULD have. But whether on ANY random hand it does or does not work out, WHY is he leading it rather than a normal diamond?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/3ftyr6jf

[benellis58]

The East-West GIBBO robots show how "good" they are at bidding:

Bozo in the East thinks he has a reverse. I think not. This is his hand: 2, AK105, K, A965432. A mere 14 HCP including a stiff king. The lazy GIB definition says, among other things, "21- HCP", which literally means 0-21.

At Bozo's next turn at bat, he bids a totally off-the-wall 3D (!) on his stiff king. The GIB definition is the total piece of unrelenting trash we have come to EXPECT from GIB definitions: "5+ clubs; 4+ hearts; 21- HCP; 18-22 total points; at best partial stop in diamonds; forcing to 3NT".

Then at Bozo's NEXT turn at bat, he bids an insane 3S. In four turns at bat, this total reject has now bid ALL FOUR suits. The bids have gotten progressively worse each time. One club was fine. Two hearts was VERY questionable. Three diamonds was ridiculous. Three spades is crazy. The GIB definition of 3S, by the way, is LAUGHABLY exactly the same as the GIB definition of 3D was! Furthermore, the GIB definition of 2H was ALMOST exactly the same as those of 3D and 3S, the only difference being that it didn't mention the bit about the "at best...partial stop in diamonds" or the slop about "forcing to 3NT". No wonder these losers are such hopeless bidders, when their system and their definitions are nothing but garbage. And speaking of "garbage", that's an appropriate description of the definition for West's 4H.

https://www.bridgeba...S6%7Cpc%7CC4%7C

[benellis58]

The definitions to 2H and 3H both say, along with some other rambling, "1-4 clubs; 1-3 diamonds; 6+ hearts; 1-3 spades".

"6+ hearts" makes sense. "1-3 spades" is because they think the sun would fall out of the sky if they had four spades. I don't agree, but some people do, so, okay, we'll accept it. The REAL questions arise, however, with the silliness about minors. Is there any reason on EARTH that the bid shows one to FOUR clubs, but only one to THREE diamonds? No, I didn't think so either. Just random nonsense from the GIB definition for absolutely NO reason.

East ends up on lead against North's 3NT and makes the ludicrous lead (what ELSE is new?) of the 8 of clubs. Declarer ends up with 11 tricks. EW end up with another ZERO to add to their world-famous collection. Don't these GIBBO robots ever tire of being total losers? Maybe they should forget about bridge and take up ping pong or scuba diving. On second thought, NOT scuba diving! If they did that as "well" as they play bridge, they'd drown in SECONDS.

https://www.bridgeba...DJ%7Cpc%7CDQ%7C

[benellis58]

East has shown a single-suiter in hearts, so why is West bidding two SPADES (of all things!)? Answer: Because he's a total ignoramus, or to put it another way, because he's a GIBBO robot! The GIB definitions, by the way, are as pathetic as you would expect.

The GIBBO robot "declaring" 3H receives the friendly lead of a diamond. He takes (only) two diamond winners, ending in dummy, and for reasons best known to himself (and perhaps other inmates) does NOT cash a third diamond winner.

At trick three, dummy's stiff queen of hearts (trump) is led, and the GIBBO robot sitting North feels that it's vital to cover with his king. In so doing, he turns his "guaranteed" trump winner into no trump winners.

EW take 11 tricks but still score only 16.16 % on the board, since with the friendly layout game was cold on any lead.

https://www.bridgeba...C5%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

The GIBBO robot sitting North decides to give away the whole heart suit at trick two, so when the human South wins his diamond king at trick three, he determines that desperate measures are necessary to counteract the gift that his centre hand opponent gave to the declarer. Consequently, he leads the QUEEN of spades at trick four, banking on the well-known incompetence of the pathetic GIBBO robot "declaring" the hand in the East.

Sure enough, the "declarer" does NOT disappoint, as he makes the EXPECTED zero percent play of withholding dummy's king...even though he ("declarer" East) has ONLY a doubleton spade.

NS beat the contract one trick for a shared top of 98.77 % and the EW robots are perhaps disappointed to pick up 1.23 % on the board, thereby failing to add a ZERO to their world-famous collection.

Moral: When playing against GIBBO robots, it is always wise to assume that they are complete imbeciles.

Corollary: When playing with a GIBBO robot as your "partner", it is also always wise to assume that he is a complete imbecile.

https://www.bridgeba...S7%7Cpc%7CD7%7C

[benellis58]

The GIBBO robot sitting North makes the questionable call of 3NT. This SHOULD go down one, as "defender" West SHOULD duck the opening heart lead to maintain communication with his partner East. If he makes that simple, obvious play, the BEST that declarer North can do from that point is to cash out for down one, because if he tries to sneak a club trick through, he will go down THREE.

West, however, is a GIBBO robot[b], which of course means that he has no [u]idea how to defend, so - incompetent fool that he is - he wins his heart king at trick one, ALREADY dooming the "defence". Yes, he blew the hand at trick ONE. Give him full credit for IMMEDIATELY exposing his gross stupidity.

He cashed his heart king at trick two, and then at trick three decided to give away the club suit also. Declarer North emerged with TEN tricks on a hand where any COMPETENT defender would have held him to only eight.

Fortunately for NS, West was NOT a competent defender, not even CLOSE. He was a [u][b]GIBBO robot!

https://www.bridgeba...C3%7Cmc%7C10%7C

[benellis58]

The GIBBO robot butchers another hand as DECLARER...even though declaring is what the GIBBO robots are BEST at in their bridge "skills". Of course, with GIBBO robots, words such as "best" and "skills" do not have the same meaning that they have with COMPETENT bridge players.

https://www.bridgeba...H5%7Cpc%7CSJ%7C

[benellis58]

Foolish lead by East gets him what he deserves: a shared bottom.

https://www.bridgeba...SQ%7Cpc%7CS4%7C

[benellis58]

What is North's double of 2C? The typically useless GIB definition doesn't SAY: "10+ HCP; biddable clubs". If anything, that should probably be interpreted as penalty, but of course a reprehensible GIB definition would never DREAM of expressly stating whether it's penalty, takeout, "cards", DSI ...or WHATEVER, because the hopeless GIB definitions prefer to have you GUESS what the double is. Pure and LAZY garbage.

Anyway, West, sitting opposite a partner who PASSED as dealer, decides to REVERSE (!) with his mere TEN-count, VULNERABLE, into his spade "suit" of...7532. He ends up declaring the hand in 3H and goes down two, despite the GIBBO robot in the North TRYING to help him.

https://www.bridgeba...CJ%7Cpc%7CD9%7C

[benellis58]

Another BBO competitor who plays robot games has sent me a hand and given me permission to post it.

He wrote "3rd hand low in Diamonds for 87%".

Note that the GIBBO robots sitting East-West and "defending" could have taken the first EIGHT tricks, thereby holding declarer to only FIVE and beating his contract two.

Instead, being GIBBO robots, they allowed declarer to take NINE (!) tricks, thereby making his contract with two overtricks.

The GIBBO robot "defenders" took...FOUR (!) tricks fewer than they should have.

https://www.bridgeba...DJ%7Cpc%7CHT%7C

[benellis58]

The GIBBO robot sitting East makes the ridiculous lead of the 8 of spades from his doubleton 84...INTO the declarer who had originally responded 1S. The ignoramus actually lucks out, however, thanks to the very lucky (for EW) spade layout.

West wins trick one with his 10, and seeing dummy KNOWS that he can continue with the spade king, since he has ALL the relevant spots and is missing only the ace. He ignores this, though, and shifts to a heart, which in itself is not fatal...until East wins and returns a heart, giving declarer 10 tricks (and a shared top) when he would only have taken 9 without the ASSISTANCE from the dimwitted "defenders".

So what happened was that East made a typically STUPID lead, but lucked out...until the nitwits WASTED their good fortune thanks to their "defence" at tricks two and three. Hilarious.

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

[benellis58]

Suffice it to say that North's bidding is from the moon.

https://www.bridgeba...CC5%7Cmc%7C9%7C

[benellis58]

The braindead GIBBO robot (sorry for the unnecessary adjective, which merely states what everyone already knows) shifts at trick two! WHY? What the HELL is his reason? And not only does the clueless dolt shift for no reason, but he is so BLINDINGLY stupid that he can't even figure out the correct card. The imbecile shifts to the SEVEN of hearts from 87 doubleton (!), demonstrating for the Nth time that these incompetent clowns treat all spots interchangeably. As usual, the GIBBO robots are a stain on the face of bridge.

https://www.bridgeba...S7%7Cpc%7CS9%7C

[benellis58]

Trick 6: The GIBBO robot sitting East plays his EIGHT of diamonds, allowing declarer to claim. No, it was NOT a good play. Yes, a DECENT defender would have known to win the ace. No, GIBBO robots are NOT "decent defenders". In fact, their "defence", like their ENTIRE bridge game, rots.

https://www.bridgeba...D7%7Cmc%7C11%7C