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After East wins his spade ace at trick two, he KNOWS that South still has TWO heart stoppers, so surely he (East) should switch to clubs. Instead, being a GIBBO robot, he plays a heart. South takes 9 tricks for plus 600 and 89.3 % on the board. East scores 10.7 % for his "brilliant" "defence". Had the unthinking twit shifted to clubs instead of woodenly continuing with hearts, he would have beaten the contract. But then he probably would have been expelled from the GIBBO brotherhood.
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#862
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Posted 2026-March-15, 12:33
Do I think the GIBBO robots are GREAT players? No.
Do I think they are VERY good players? No.
Do I think they are GOOD players? No.
Do I think they are slightly below average players? No.
Do I think they are stone cold, ROTTEN players worse than even the worst human player I have ever seen? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
Do I think they are VERY good players? No.
Do I think they are GOOD players? No.
Do I think they are slightly below average players? No.
Do I think they are stone cold, ROTTEN players worse than even the worst human player I have ever seen? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
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Posted 2026-March-15, 13:06
Why is the absolute M.O.R.O.N. in the North bidding 3H...in DIRECT, NON-PASSOUT seat, with absolutely NOTHING extra? The ignorant, undisciplined fool has an aceless 8 HCP including a doubleton queen of spades (the suit that his RHO has bid twice) that might prove to be worthless and a diamond jack that might also prove to be worthless. He has ONLY three hearts (trump), the MINIMUM he could have. His shape is a flattish 2-3-4-4.
Even his own GIB definition proves that his bid is wrong: "4+ hearts; 6-9 total points".
Why are ALL the GIBBO robots, not just this sap in the North, so consistently and irredeemably hopeless...after ALL the years they have been in existence?
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Even his own GIB definition proves that his bid is wrong: "4+ hearts; 6-9 total points".
Why are ALL the GIBBO robots, not just this sap in the North, so consistently and irredeemably hopeless...after ALL the years they have been in existence?
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#865
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Posted 2026-March-15, 13:09
The GIBBO robots "earn" yet ANOTHER zero for their lifetime collection. At the rate they're going, they'll have to purchase a CONTINENT to store their massive and ever-growing collection of complete failures.
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Posted 2026-March-15, 14:02
A freak hand, but I think we can safely say that the GIBBO robots sitting EW could both have handled it better.
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#867
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Posted 2026-March-16, 00:04
If a world championship is ever awarded for INEPTITUDE and the GIBBO robots do not win the title, I think they will be able to say, as many professional boxers have, "We wuz robbed!"
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Posted 2026-March-16, 10:57
This is NOT a hand where it's right to cover an honour (a HEART honour) with an honour as West stupidly did at trick three. His stupid cover didn't cost, because based on the auction I would have gotten the hearts right anyway, but HE had no way of knowing that I WOULD get them right...but by his imbecilic cover he GUARANTEED that I could not POSSIBLY go wrong. The GIBBO robots are hopeless at bridge.
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#869
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Posted 2026-March-16, 14:23
Nice LEAD, Mr. East! Cut down on those ruffs! A weaker player might have led one of his two ACES against the SLAM, but YOU, a GIBBO robot, were savvy enough to realize that you could pull SEVERAL rounds of trump. Well done!
Oh, please excuse me for a minute, Mr. East. My phone is ringing.
"Hello. Oh, hi! How ya doin'? What's that? East would have been FAR better off leading a SPADE? You say the ACE of spades would at least have held declarer to 'only' 12 tricks instead of the THIRTEEN he took on the (STUPID) trump lead...and you say that the imaginative and creative lead of a SMALL spade might even have BEATEN the slam, because declarer probably would have made the 'normal' guess of playing the jack, thereby losing to the queen at trick one and the ace at trick two? Well, thanks for your call. I'll have to go back to that poor, sensitive GIBBO robot and tell him that his TRUMP lead was actually pretty BAD. I hope he doesn't start crying. He's not very bright, but he seems like a nice guy - he's always giving me tops. Anyway, I better let you go. Say hello to Cheryl and the kids for me."
Hi, Mr. East. Sorry for that, but it was an old friend calling. Uh, listen, Mr. East, you better sit down. I've got something to tell you...
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Oh, please excuse me for a minute, Mr. East. My phone is ringing.
"Hello. Oh, hi! How ya doin'? What's that? East would have been FAR better off leading a SPADE? You say the ACE of spades would at least have held declarer to 'only' 12 tricks instead of the THIRTEEN he took on the (STUPID) trump lead...and you say that the imaginative and creative lead of a SMALL spade might even have BEATEN the slam, because declarer probably would have made the 'normal' guess of playing the jack, thereby losing to the queen at trick one and the ace at trick two? Well, thanks for your call. I'll have to go back to that poor, sensitive GIBBO robot and tell him that his TRUMP lead was actually pretty BAD. I hope he doesn't start crying. He's not very bright, but he seems like a nice guy - he's always giving me tops. Anyway, I better let you go. Say hello to Cheryl and the kids for me."
Hi, Mr. East. Sorry for that, but it was an old friend calling. Uh, listen, Mr. East, you better sit down. I've got something to tell you...
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Posted 2026-March-17, 09:21
Not my table, but a shining example of how stupefyingly and totally inept the GIBBO robots are at "defending".
The "star" here is West. He begins with the magnificently stupid lead of a trump, immediately guaranteeing that declarer cannot misguess the suit and will have no trump losers.
But the clown is not finished showing how extraordinarily dimwitted he is, because:
He wins his spade ace at trick four and then at trick five...UNDERLEADS his club ace! Declarer takes all the remaining tricks.
So, thanks to the GIBBO robot in the West, declarer took TWELVE tricks...despite missing two cashable aces AND also having a GUESS for the heart queen (that became a NON-guess after the witless opening lead).
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The "star" here is West. He begins with the magnificently stupid lead of a trump, immediately guaranteeing that declarer cannot misguess the suit and will have no trump losers.
But the clown is not finished showing how extraordinarily dimwitted he is, because:
He wins his spade ace at trick four and then at trick five...UNDERLEADS his club ace! Declarer takes all the remaining tricks.
So, thanks to the GIBBO robot in the West, declarer took TWELVE tricks...despite missing two cashable aces AND also having a GUESS for the heart queen (that became a NON-guess after the witless opening lead).
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Posted 2026-March-17, 09:28
The GIBBO robot in the North thinks it's a terrific idea to bid 2H...with 742 tripleton...in response to his partner's takeout double...rather than 2D (the suit his partner OPENED) with Q74.
I think it's a terrific idea to send the GIBBO robots to a scrap heap and replace them with robots who have a CLUE about how to play bridge.
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I think it's a terrific idea to send the GIBBO robots to a scrap heap and replace them with robots who have a CLUE about how to play bridge.
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Posted 2026-March-17, 09:40
East decides to shift at trick two. Fair enough. A red suit shift looks right. Fair enough. Depending on the random layout, a heart COULD be right or a diamond COULD be right...but with nothing to go on, isn't a DIAMOND likely to be best? So Of COURSE the GIBBO robot plays a heart and thereby adds yet ANOTHER zero to his truly impressive and perhaps unparalleled lifetime collection of them.
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Posted 2026-March-17, 09:45
The GIBBO robots show another way to add another zero to their bulging trophy case of failures.
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Posted 2026-March-17, 09:54
Some might disagree, but I think it's silly for North to pass rather than bid Stayman.
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Posted 2026-March-17, 10:31
I firmly believe that West should overcall 1NT rather than doubling with his pancake flat 18 HCP. Instead, he doubles and then...bids 2D (!) over his partner's 2C.
East then does the seemingly impossible: He OUTDOES West in stupidity! He bids a gigantically I.D.I.O.T.I.C. 2NT (!), defined as "Invitational to 3NT game - 4+ clubs; 6-8 HCP; 9- total points; likely stop in diamonds; forcing to 3S".
Let's examine this typically wretched GIB definition and East's overwhelming stupidity, piece by miserable piece:
"Invitational to 3NT game". First, Mr. GIB, EVERYONE knows that 3NT is "game", so please STOP putting this needless, annoying, insulting word in your LOUSY definitions. Second, WHY would East be inviting 3NT (and from HIS side yet!) with his mere four HCP? (Although, to be fair, West's laughably inept bidding is also responsible for this stupid call. After all, it's a partnership game...and these two execrable GIBBO robots are indeed "partners"...in IDIOCY!)
"4+ clubs". Okay...but so what?
"6-8 HCP". Can't the GIBBO robots even COUNT? He has FOUR HCP!
"9- total points". Why are "total" points even being MENTIONED when he's (stupidly) inviting game in no trump?
"Likely stop in diamonds". Fair enough...and he even HAS it! I'm shocked!
"Forcing to 3S". Three SPADES? Why on EARTH should it be forcing to ANYTHING? He's (stupidly) inviting in NO TRUMP, so if West doesn't want to accept the invitation, why wouldn't he (West) simply PASS 2NT? And furthermore, if for Lord knows what reason the hopeless GIBBO system stupidly wants 2NT to be forcing, why on EARTH would it be forcing to three SPADES?
Finally, just consider the COMEDY of this TOTALLY illogical and inconsistent definition: 2NT is defined as "Invitational" at the beginning...but "forcing" at the end! If you TRIED to write a worse definition than this piece of absolute GARBAGE, you would probably find it impossible to do so!
West completes the MADNESS of this auction by ACCEPTING the invitation and bidding 3NT. He does so with what is, based on the context of his previous bids in this aberration, the worst piece of dogmeat he could possibly have: a pancake flat "mere" 18 HCP (the LEAST possible for his bidding so far) with NO real source of tricks. Even the pathetic GIB definition states that 3NT here shows "19-26 HCP", so I once AGAIN ask "Can't the GIBBO robots even COUNT?"
The GIBBO robots rot. The GIBBO system rots. The GIB definitions rot.
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East then does the seemingly impossible: He OUTDOES West in stupidity! He bids a gigantically I.D.I.O.T.I.C. 2NT (!), defined as "Invitational to 3NT game - 4+ clubs; 6-8 HCP; 9- total points; likely stop in diamonds; forcing to 3S".
Let's examine this typically wretched GIB definition and East's overwhelming stupidity, piece by miserable piece:
"Invitational to 3NT game". First, Mr. GIB, EVERYONE knows that 3NT is "game", so please STOP putting this needless, annoying, insulting word in your LOUSY definitions. Second, WHY would East be inviting 3NT (and from HIS side yet!) with his mere four HCP? (Although, to be fair, West's laughably inept bidding is also responsible for this stupid call. After all, it's a partnership game...and these two execrable GIBBO robots are indeed "partners"...in IDIOCY!)
"4+ clubs". Okay...but so what?
"6-8 HCP". Can't the GIBBO robots even COUNT? He has FOUR HCP!
"9- total points". Why are "total" points even being MENTIONED when he's (stupidly) inviting game in no trump?
"Likely stop in diamonds". Fair enough...and he even HAS it! I'm shocked!
"Forcing to 3S". Three SPADES? Why on EARTH should it be forcing to ANYTHING? He's (stupidly) inviting in NO TRUMP, so if West doesn't want to accept the invitation, why wouldn't he (West) simply PASS 2NT? And furthermore, if for Lord knows what reason the hopeless GIBBO system stupidly wants 2NT to be forcing, why on EARTH would it be forcing to three SPADES?
Finally, just consider the COMEDY of this TOTALLY illogical and inconsistent definition: 2NT is defined as "Invitational" at the beginning...but "forcing" at the end! If you TRIED to write a worse definition than this piece of absolute GARBAGE, you would probably find it impossible to do so!
West completes the MADNESS of this auction by ACCEPTING the invitation and bidding 3NT. He does so with what is, based on the context of his previous bids in this aberration, the worst piece of dogmeat he could possibly have: a pancake flat "mere" 18 HCP (the LEAST possible for his bidding so far) with NO real source of tricks. Even the pathetic GIB definition states that 3NT here shows "19-26 HCP", so I once AGAIN ask "Can't the GIBBO robots even COUNT?"
The GIBBO robots rot. The GIBBO system rots. The GIB definitions rot.
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Posted 2026-March-17, 13:14
Why is this GIBBO robot in the West in such a HURRY to grab his diamond ace? Does this absolute fool think he will LOSE it if he doesn't take it immediately? And AFTER winning it, he IMMEDIATELY played a second DIAMOND! I guess his ONLY motive was to GUARANTEE that declarer would not misguess the suit. Yes, the GIBBO robots are staggeringly bad bridge players, but they are VERY nice opponents - ALWAYS trying (and often succeeding) to give away good scores.
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Posted 2026-March-17, 13:32
Declarer takes four spade tricks on this hand. Declarer takes four spade tricks on this hand. Declarer...takes...FOUR (!) spade tricks on this hand!
Watch in AWE as the GIBBO robots demonstrate how to totally BOTCH a suit. Pay attention to all the spade spots through the hand. If you do that, you will prove (not that there was ever any doubt whatsoever) that you are VASTLY better at bridge than the hopeless GIBBO robots.
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Watch in AWE as the GIBBO robots demonstrate how to totally BOTCH a suit. Pay attention to all the spade spots through the hand. If you do that, you will prove (not that there was ever any doubt whatsoever) that you are VASTLY better at bridge than the hopeless GIBBO robots.
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Posted 2026-March-17, 13:37
East stupidly plays his club king at trick one, making it easy for South to take TWELVE tricks. Is there ANY bridge player ANYWHERE except for a GIBBO robot who would be so ignorant as to play the club king after West leads the jack and East sees his own hand and dummy North?
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Posted 2026-March-17, 13:42
Some players would bid TEXAS with North's hand after South overcalls 1NT. The ignorant, cowardly GIBBO robot didn't even INVITE (!) by raising 2H to 3H...and that SAME ignorant, cowardly GIBBO robot is usually an OVERbidder! They are hopelessly bad and undoubtedly the worst bridge players that I have personally ever seen.
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