[benellis58]

I assume everyone knows that GIBBO's immediate predecessors GIB were - as hard as this may be to believe - even worse opening leaders than the always repulsive GIBBO robots. Lorserker, to his credit, made some key improvements. Nonetheless, the GIBBO robots are still atrocious at leads. Here's an example:

West "earns" himself yet another complete zero with his alarmingly stupid lead of the ace of hearts. Why on Earth would anyone, even a terminally unintelligent, nauseating GIBBO robot like North, lead a HEART on THIS auction? They are so bad, so unrelentingly bad. They are garbage, nothing but garbage.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/3vdba65e

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What's that? You want another example of a stupefyingly imbecilic lead by a GIBBO robot? No problem. Happy to oblige. Here's another one where West "earned" himself another (!) complete zero for his world-famous, unrivalled collection. It happened on the very next board after the previous one discussed in post #1761 directly above. They are total dolts.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p9bjn8p

[benellis58]

Stupid (what else would you expect from a GIBBO robot?) 3H bid by West. His "partner" East bid 2H as a passed hand, so why is Johnny Halfwit raising him to three after South PASSES 2H?

Trust me: I could continue writing this thread for the next ten thousand years and I would never run out of GIBBO atrocities to report.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/mv9zhdvb

[benellis58]

OMARHEUM has sent two more hands. This is the first. He writes "Another hand where partner makes a takeout double lacking diamond support. Down 4. Just Declare auction."

https://www.bridgeba...HA%7Cpc%7CDT%7C

[benellis58]

The second hand from OMAR today - He writes "Very next board: West squanders the 10 of clubs early. Not costly on this hand, but still!"

https://www.bridgeba...D6%7Cmc%7C10%7C

[benellis58]

Another interesting thread:

https://www.bridgeba...le-gib-bidding/

[benellis58]

And another interesting thread:

https://www.bridgeba...he-description/

[benellis58]

A laughable example of what a ridiculous system GIBBO foists on its robots and its users:

Before bidding 3D over East's 2D opener, I checked to see what a FOUR diamond call by me would mean. The GIB definition greatly entertained me, because I am a big fan of great COMEDY: "27+ HCP, forcing to 4NT". Oh yeah, that's REALLY useful, REALLY descriptive, and says SO much about the hand. Plus, I bet it comes up REALLY often, because we all get SO many hands SO often with 27 or more HCP.

Seriously, why would ANYONE create such a ridiculous, useless definition?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p87xdua

[benellis58]

I think that just about everyone, including me, feels that the GIBBO robots are better at declaring that at any and all other aspects of bridge.

How could they NOT be? Their system is an antiquated, illogical joke. Their definitions are unfailingly pathetic. They are the worst "defenders" I have ever seen. They WOULD also be the worst opening leaders, except for the fact that their immediate predecessors, the laughable GIB robots, were even worse.

Thus, declarer play is by default the "best" part of their sickeningly horrendous game...but it does NOT mean that they are GOOD declarers. As an example, watch East, a typically oblivious GIBBO piece of trash, butcher this simple hand:

He wins dummy's diamond ace at trick one. At trick two he leads a spade (trump) to his ace...and discovers that his LHO South is void. No problem, because his RHO North only has the Q10 doubleton remaining, so East can return to dummy and lead a second spade to pick up the trump suit without a loser. To his credit, the robot realizes this (as even a raw beginner probably would - but, credit where it's due, at least the robot - like the raw beginner - DOES realize it).

But the ignorant STOOGE returns to dummy with the WRONG suit! The stunningly incompetent C.R.E.T.I.N. plays a DIAMOND to dummy instead of CORRECTLY playing a HEART. Imbecile!

He wins the diamond and pulls trump, fine...BUT when he then BELATEDLY leads a heart, I duck. He wins dummy's king, ruffs a diamond back to his hand, and leads a SECOND heart...but I NOW pop my ace and play a fourth round of diamonds, which he ruffs in his hand. He has BELATEDLY established dummy's heart queen as a winner - which would give him a very useful club pitch - but due to his earlier stupid, STUPID play, he cannot get to dummy to enjoy his queen of hearts. He plays a couple of spades for practice, but then at trick 12 has to lead a club from his K8 dub and of course loses both of them. He makes ONY 10 tricks instead of the EASY 11 that ANY competent declarer would have made. All the imbecile had to do was lead a HEART at trick three (NOT a DIAMOND like this incompetent bozo stupidly did!). South would probably correctly duck, but EVEN if he did, big deal! Dummy would win with the king or queen, and declarer would take the marked spade hook, pull trumps, and then lead a second heart towards dummy. He would score TWO heart winners, allowing for a club pitch, because he would not have LOCKED HIMSELF (!) OUT OF HIS OWN (!) DUMMY by STUPIDLY removing its entry with that fatuous DIAMOND at trick three.

So, yes, declarer play IS the best part of the robot game, but even at declarer play, the GIBBO robots are lousy - as this hand shows! GIBBO robots rot!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/38fxuphe

[benellis58]

The GIBBO clown in the West makes the incredibly stupid lead of a heart, even though he knows from the auction that dummy has 5 of them, declarer has at least 2, and his "partner" East has at MOST one. EW get what seems to be their favourite score: a complete zero.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yck5ske7

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Question: Why does East stupidly raise 2S to 3S? Answer: Because he's a fleabrained GIBBO robot, so like any and all GIBBO robots he has absolutely no idea of how to bid intelligently.

https://tinyurl.bridgebase.com/m8b3ea7

[benellis58]

I took 12 tricks in 3NT. Would I have taken 12 tricks against ANY defenders except GIBBO robots? WILDLY unlikely. Watch how these useless, worthless GIBBO pieces of trash play the spade suit...from beginning to end.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/4wwsdch7

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Even for a GIBBO robot, the pond scum of the bridge world, the lowest of the low, the worst of the worst, North's ASTOUNDINGLY stupid 3S bid stands out. This piece of pure, scintillating GARBAGE began with a simple competitive raise (2H) of his partner's suit, yet now - at the THREE level - he is REVERSING by biding three SPADES!

I've asked this question before, but it bears repeating " How many DOZENS (or maybe HUNDREDS) of times WERE these GIBBO jackasses dropped on their heads as infants?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/3t7jachc

[benellis58]

Trick one: Looks like no one ever told the GIBBO sap in the East about unblocking. The I.D.I.O.T. plays his SEVEN of hearts instead of his king, lifelong LOSER that he is.

Trick five: The worthless GIBBO dirtbag in the West proves that he's as big a bonehead as his partner: The ignorant and COWARDLY fool stupidly plays his club 10 rather than the correct 5.

Please get rid of the GIBBO robots (and, of course, their hopeless system and pathetic definitions). They are useless, worthless, and hopeless. They are an embarrassment to bridge and to BBO, and they are an insult to BBO players, members, and customers. Please replace these failures with DECENT robots.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/4vm66k3v

[benellis58]

In Best Hand games, I open all 11-counts in all positions. Sometimes it works out well, sometimes it doesn't - but it obviously works out well more often than not or else I'd stop doing it - DUH.

Here's a hand where it did not work out well. Once I opened, we were slated to do poorly on this hand, so the fault is all mine, not my robot "partner's".

BUT, having said that, the purpose of this essential thread that Diana so wisely created and titled back in August 2025 is NOT to bash myself or any other human. The title Diana assigned to the thread, which I consider to be its mission statement, is "Benellis58 GIB bashing on repeat", so...let's get to work on our MISSION and do some GIB bashing!

North's initial pass was fine. His 1S response was fine. His 2H call was fine. His balancing double of East's 3C was fine. So far, he's doing...well, I guess we could say..."fine" (chuckle).

But GIBBO robots are absolutely HORRENDOUS players - by FAR the worst that I have EVER seen in many decades of playing bridge, so...DUH...they CANNOT stay "fine" forever, and so...

When I bid 3H over North's double of 3C, the absolute M.O.R.O.N. stupidly raised to 4H. This might not even have cost much, because 3H would have scored poorly anyway, but his raise was a testament to his overwhelming, total lack of intelligence or judgment. He had already SHOWN his hand. End of story!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p866fb9

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Trick eight: East STUPIDLY ruffs a club that his partner WEST would have won. THEN he plays a diamond (!), giving declarer a ruff and a pitch. 100 % for NS, another complete zero for EW. GIBBO robots stink.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/y48645fk