[benellis58]

Can't complain about the score (another 100 % for NS, another complete zero for EW), but that is QUITE a 2S bid by North! Yes, I understand the concept of balancing, but:

He has THREE (!) HCP - comprised of a JACK in his five-card "side" suit and a queen - a DOUBLETON queen.

His "suit" is a mere FOUR-bagger, and the "quality" leaves a LITTLE (ha, ha!) to be desired...with 9753!

He is doing this red against white!

Luckily I had GOLD for him, as this was one of my frequent operations playing with and against these hopeless GIBBO clowns, and for STARTERS I had NINETEEN QUALITY HCP (!) for my "15-17" INT, but for all HE knew, I could have had a mere 15, and it could have been a LOUSY 15!

https://www.bridgeba...H3%7Cpc%7CSK%7C

[benellis58]

Trick four: East leads the 10 of diamonds - a colossally stupid play that gives me the whole suit. There was once a commercial for a cleaning product that claimed the product was "stronger than dirt". GIBBO robots could paraphrase this as their motto: Dumber than dirt.

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

[benellis58]

Wretched declarer play by the GIBBO simpleton in the East. That's right, declarer play: the one and ONLY facet of bridge that the GIBBO dirtbags are not completely hopeless at...but as this hand shows, they aren't particularly GOOD at it either.

And speaking of wretched, why does North play the NINE of spades at trick one rather than correctly playing the eight? This is an example of the COUNTLESS "little" things that these GIBBO bozos get wrong...and that often go unnoticed because people are focused on their more obvious BIG atrocities. GIBBO is trash.

https://www.bridgeba...DQ%7Cpc%7CH7%7C

[benellis58]

Just because you play a convention it doesn't mean you're forced to use it. Bidding two HEARTS on West's hand looks foolhardy, and the doofus got what he deserved.

https://www.bridgeba...D8%7Cpc%7CC4%7C

[benellis58]

Another wretched "defence".

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

[benellis58]

Typical stupidity and inconsistency from a typical GIBBO robot - in other words, a typical M.O.R.O.N., because all GIBBO robots are M.O.R.O.N.S.

West passes East's 1S when he could and almost certainly should bid 1NT. Yet when East later competes with 2S, West NOW...SUDDENLY...decides that he MUST bid TWO no trump. This is defined as "Invitational to 3NT". Oops! Oh no! I made a TERRIBLE mistake! Please FORGIVE me! I'm SO sorry, honest I am! I don't know how I could have been SO careless! You see, I foolishly left out a KEY word from that definition! It didn't JUST say "Invitational to 3NT" - it said "Invitational to 3NT GAME"! I stupidly omitted that oh-so-crucial word "game", so probably NO ONE realized that 3NT is actually "game". Silly, silly me! I guess I'll never be hired to write those wonderful GIB definitions, because GIB definitions NEVER forget to inform EVERYONE that 3NT is actually - can you believe it (?) "game".

2S would almost certainly have made, but 2NT went down. The latest in a never-ending collection of hands where a braindead GIBBO robot punished his "partner" for competing, and also the latest where a GIBBO dimwit turned a plus into a minus.

Then again, maybe I'm being unfair. Maybe it was a "rescue" attempt that failed. Maybe Superstooge in the West looked at his hand and said, "Oh no! I only have TWO spades! I MUST rescue my partner."

Throw them OUT, please! DESTROY them, please! They are unmitigated garbage. SURELY there are BETTER robots in the modern world!

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

[benellis58]

West's "defence" is a thing of "beauty". For no discernible reason, he leads the ace pf hearts. Then he shifts. To a spade? Oh no, PERISH the thought! After all, he and his partner BOTH bid spades, so of course he would NEVER want to lead a SPADE! He...of COURSE...shifts to a club, the suit DECLARER bid... twice, and his club shift is INTO declarer. Of COURSE it is.

Poor West: He is astonished when South takes TWELVE tricks and equally ASTONISHED to see that he and East get a very bad score while NS get a very good one. "I just don't get it, " he says, "Maybe I should give up bridge and start a new hobby<" to which I say, "AMEN, Brother West, AMEN!. That's the first intelligent thing any GIBBO robot has ever said!"

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p9xpjm6

[benellis58]

After 1C by South, 1H by North, 1S by South, 1NT by North, South bids 2C. Quite obviously, South is "running" from NT. Quite obviously, he feels that clubs will be a better spot. Quite obviously, he has a shapely hand - almost certainly with exactly four spades and at LEAST six clubs. Quite obviously, he is not interested in game, since his 2C bid is passable. And not only is North now allowed to pass, but North is now expected to pass.

North...bids (!)...two...no trump! If North DOES choose to bid over 2C, SURELY his bid should be two DIAMONDS, not 2NT! When these dweebs fill out a census form, do they write "I.D.I.O.T." on the line where it asks for their nationality? If not, they sure as Hell should!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/47xr28yw

[benellis58]

West makes an intelligent lead for once in his miserable robotic "life". Bravo!

But when West later wins his offside spade king, he immediately fires back a...spade (!) because these intellectual wizards LOVE to return DECLARER'S suit.

West earns himself a very well-deserved ZERO to add to his massive lifetime collection.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/a4w9fzak

[benellis58]

Not exactly the best double of 5D (and a typically useless and pathetic GIB definition of the double also). Not exactly the best "defence" either. Thanks for the good score, Johnny Halfwit. Thanks to you also, Donald J. Dumbo. I won't shake your hand, though. No insult intended - it's just that I know your hand bruises very easily.

https://www.bridgeba...SK%7Cmc%7C12%7C

[benellis58]

Another hand from OMARHEUM, who writes "Routine 3NT. I decide to start by running clubs - can't hurt, might help. West is kind enough to pitch two diamonds, eliminating any possible guess in the suit. This result occurred 52 times."

OMAR's hand reminds us of two of the countless reasons that the GIBBO monstrosities are so agonizingly, disgustingly hopeless at anything and everything about bridge.

One: They are incapable of thinking.

Two: They stupidly consider ONLY their OWN hand, totally ignoring the other three at the table. That is why on SO many hands they "defend" horrendously, bid horribly, and have numerous peccadilloes such as their ridiculous propensity to "rescue" partner if (Heaven forbid!) they are not armed for bear in his suit.

On this hand, any actual bridge player or even any DECENT robot would realize as soon as he saw dummy that the two most important cards in his hand were the 106 of diamonds and that he MUST hold on to both! He would immediately see that if declarer had the KQ of diamonds - even if they were accompanied by no others - he would take six diamond tricks. Thus, West knows as soon as dummy comes down that his only hope is that his partner East has the king and/or queen of diamonds. If pard has the king, all will be well (unless it's a singleton, in which case diamond pitches might lead South to drop it). And if pard has only the queen, but no king, declarer might have a nasty guess (as he would have had on THIS hand...if Johnny Halfwit had held on to his two diamonds).

But afflicted by not only his terminal, ever-present stupidity but also his fatal tunnel vision, Mr. Halfwit considers - as always - only his own hand, and says, "Uh, golly gee, my diamonds will never take any tricks, but my spades and hearts might, so I'll be REALLY smart and throw my useless diamonds. Mr. Ginsberg and BBO will be SO proud of me."

https://www.bridgeba...DQ%7Cmc%7C13%7C

[benellis58]

We scored 75 % for going down one in 5c doubled. It seemed clear to me to pull North's "penalty" (ha, ha!) double of 4S, not just because of my very shapely hand, but largely (and possibly even mainly) because my "partner" was a disgusting GIBBO robot (as they all are), and I have been burned too many times when these fleabrained dolts doubled ice cold contracts for no reason.

Note that on this hand, North's double was defined as "8+ HCP; 16- total points". Of course, the definition was a fairly useless piece of trash, as SO many GIB definitions are, but that does not alter the fact that the robots should be following their own GIB definitions. North had a mere THREE HCP. not even close to his "promised" MINIMUM of 8. Why are these worthless GIBBO robots still polluting BBO with their presence? Why are they still here - tarnishing an otherwise fine bridge site?

By the way, look at West's breathtakingly stupid lead of a DIAMOND on THIS auction! Do all GIBBO robots breakfast each morning on huge bowls of stupidity pills?

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

[benellis58]

First, it's amazing that East did not bid 5S in passout seat. EVEN a clueless GIBBO robot should have been able to figure THAT out, but I guess they're even worse than I thought...and I already thought that they were the worst "bridge players" I have ever seen in my life.

Second, how could that same M.O.R.O.N. not lead the ace of spades?

Every day they seem even worse than the day before.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/4563tkjk

[benellis58]

Donald J. Dumbo, sitting West and wearing makeup on his face and hands, wins his diamond ace at trick four. At trick five he immediately plays back a...diamond. These GIBBO jerks never learn.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yr36erva

[benellis58]

Our result was fine, but that was QUITE a 3NT call by North with his SEVEN spades!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/3hmrfs6m

[benellis58]

Typically imbecilic lead by West.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/w5f5km9j