[benellis58]

East leads the NINE of hearts from KQ983 - a strange choice of lead from that suit. Following that, his pitches are not the best, thereby allowing me to picture the hand and take TWELVE tricks.

Yes, it is is DEFINITELY better to have GIBBO robots as your "opponents" than as your "partner".

In a game with three GIBBO rubes, East and West will almost always be HELPING you, while North will almost always be doing HIS best to sink your ship.

GIB/GIBBO is the worst. The worst. Ever.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/y8uaetfd

[benellis58]

Another in the neverending series of stupid opening leads by the worst opening leaders of all time: the GIB robots. Note that I wrote "GIB", because as bad as the GIBBO robots are at opening leads (and they are excruciatingly bad), they are STILL quite a bit better than the GIB robots immediately before them were. Those GIB robots were SO hopeless with their leads that EVEN the GIBBO robots can look DOWN on them and LAUGH at them.

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

[benellis58]

Further proof that the author of the pitiful GIB definitions was NOT the right person to EVER write ANY definition:

Let's dissect, bit by ludicrous bit, the definition of 4C as written by the worst definition author in history:

"5+ clubs; 4+ diamonds" : Now, if the inept author of the GIB definitions was defining this bid in my system, he would be correct, because I do open hands with five clubs and four diamonds one diamond if they are not strong enough for a reverse. However, this NON-Shakespeare is NOT writing his typically pathetic definition for my system, he is writing it for his hopeless GIB system, and in his JOKE of a system, a GIB robot would always open one CLUB if he had five clubs and four diamonds, so his stupid opening statement here is entirely wrong. This definition writer is clearly incapable of even writing an accurate definition for his own system! To continue:

"11-21 HCP" : The fact that this is a ridiculously broad ELEVEN (!) point range makes it completely useless. No surprise at all for a definition from Mr. GIB.

"3-card diamonds" : So let me get this straight, Mr. GIB: First he has "4+ diamonds", as you stated at the start of this piece of junk that you wrote, but apparently NOW he has only "3-card diamonds". Sorry, Mr. GIB, but that makes NO sense...unless he was robbed at gunpoint and had to surrender one or more of his diamonds while you were writing your trash. Are you even AWARE of what you're writing? Quite obviously, you NEVER bother proofreading, because the constant I.D.I.O.C.I.E.S. that appear in your worthless definitions are NOT hard to spot!

"12-22 total points" : Again, such a broad range that it's completely useless, although it would be useless anyway, since the author of the GIB definitions has repeatedly shown that he has no understanding of "total" points.

But hey, at least he's there with his usual unnecessary, annoying, insulting openings, such as:

1D: "Minor suit opening". 1H: "One-level overcall". 1S: "Free bid". No one needs this "information", Mr. GIB. Everyone already knows it. Instead of writing this useless bilge, maybe you should have devoted that time to writing DECENT definitions for your OWN system!

Note also the LUDICROUS bidding by the GIB robot in the North, who pretty much bids 4S all by himself...on his mere TEN-count and his mere FIVE spades...when his "partner" South could easily have been VOID in spades!

As BAD as the GIB system is, as BAD as the GIB/GIBBO robots are, the GIB definitions are even worse! GIB is a JOKE! GIBBO is also bad, but how could it POSSIBLY be good when it is an offshoot of GIB? I don't think garbage can be transformed into jewels!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p88kxu8

[benellis58]

What a stupid, STUPID lead! Why do these GIBBO dimwits LOVE leading singleton trumps?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2jv5mbrt

[benellis58]

North's 3D is defined as a "cue bid" showing the "ace of diamonds" and "18+ total points".

THIS is North's hand: AKJ96, 53, J82, K73. Do YOU see the "ace of diamonds"? Do YOU see anywhere even CLOSE to "18+ (!!!) total points"?

Remember: Someone actually took the time (!) to write this complete garbage and presumably actually thought he was doing a GOOD job!

Amusingly, I misclicked with one play late in the hand but still made the required 10 tricks. To give the robots their due, at least they never misclick!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p9hcsb3

[benellis58]

Another witless, illogical, indeed perverse lead:

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/28y2vdn6

[benellis58]

East doubles 4S, which should go down two unless Frick and Frack TOTALLY butcher the defence.

We'll never know, because West STUPIDLY pulls to 5H, which goes down one.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yck78435

[benellis58]

Gaze in awe at the GIBBO WIZARD in the North as he MIRACULOUSLY turns his two natural, "guaranteed" spade winners into only one. What a MAGICIAN! What a GENIUS!

After all, I doubt that there is even a SINGLE raw beginner (!) who would have been capable of finding his COMPRESSION PLAY!

Yes, I criticize these nauseating GIBBO pieces of trash all the time, but I must confess that they are the BEST...at...BLOWING TRICKS!

GIB/GIBBO sucks pumice. GIB/GIBBO is the worst of the worst, the lowest of the low. GIB/GIBBO rots. GIB/GIBBO is a thoroughly disgusting abomination, and an ugly scar on the game of bridge.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yckz6xj7

[benellis58]

Trick four: I had planned on sliding the spade 10 if it wasn't covered, so in PRACTICE East's cover did not cost him, but it was still a BAD play, because HE didn't KNOW that I would slide the 10, and if I had NOT planned to do so, his FOOLISH cover would have given away the suit!

THEN...West stupidly STIFFS (!) his heart king, enabling me to cash my ace and then ALSO cash my 9. Thanks to West's incompetence, I scored THREE heart tricks and lost none, even though the king was offside and I was also missing the 10.

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

[benellis58]

Trick six: North STUPIDLY plays a heart (trump) instead of a spade.

Trick eight: North STUPIDLY plays a club instead of a spade.

North lucked out, as these GIBBO robots so often do, because we were always beating the hand one (and only one) trick anyway, because declarer can't do everything: If he pulls trump, he'll lose three spades and the ace of diamonds. If he doesn't pull trump, he'll lose (only) two spades, but he'll also lose the ace of diamonds AND a diamond ruff.

https://www.bridgeba...C3%7Cpc%7CSA%7C

[benellis58]

Foolish double by East, foolish lead by West.

https://www.bridgeba...S9%7Cmc%7C13%7C

[benellis58]

Another interesting thread is linked at the bottom of this post. It mentions something that I have pointed out a few times in the past: namely that the hopeless GIB system foolishly uses a 3NT opening bid AND a 2C opening bid followed by a 3NT rebid to show EXACTLY the same thing - 25-27 HCP.

Did the creator of the pathetic GIB system think it was BRILLIANT to WASTEFULLY use two different sequences to show the exact same hand, or was he too oblivious to even notice the foolish redundancy?.

Several posters make it clear in their comments that GIB would be a much better system if THEY had designed it!

BTW, there are MANY other examples of this same stupid, wasteful, redundant tendency of the system creator to use multiple ways to show the exact same thing. This silly, illogical wastefulness is one of the many reasons why the GIB system is such a pitiful joke.

https://www.bridgeba...notrump-ranges/

[benellis58]

Just popping by to offer a friendly reminder that the GIB/GIBBO robots are the worst pieces of garbage I have ever seen in bridge.

[benellis58]

I made 3C on this hand even though good defence should have beaten it. I should always lose two top hearts, the ace of spades, a natural guaranteed trump (club) trick, and the offside king of diamonds. That's five losers for down one.

Luckily for me, two GIBBO robots were "defending", so of COURSE the "defence" was NOT good.

After West won his offside diamond king at trick two, they actually had an easy road to beating me TWO tricks: Diamond by West at trick three, ruffed by East. Ace of hearts cashed at trick four. Spade to West's ace at trick five. Another diamond ruff at trick six. Presto: down two.

There is an equally effective alternate defence after East cashes his heart ace at trick four: He plays another heart and West ruffs with his club jack. This will promote a guaranteed club trick for East's remaining Q8 doubleton, and EW will still also get their spade ace.

BUT...at trick three, West (being a GIBBO robot, and therefore one of the most horrendously stupid and hopeless "bridge players" of ALL time) made the INCREDIBLY imbecilic play of returning a CLUB (trump). Ginsberg's INEPT "Bridgeplayer" (sic!) had struck AGAIN...as it does SO often! GIB/GIBBO is the WORST!

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

[benellis58]

Typical example of over-competing by the GIBBO numbskull in the East. I wanted to be polite to the C.R.E.T.I.N., which is why I used the word "over-competing" instead of the equally correct alternative of "insanity".

The clueless reject had a flattish 3-4-4-2 shape, with a mere king and jack...AND the KING was very possibly USELESS in view of the 3C call by the South opponent sitting BEHIND him. And...the clown committed his 3D bid VULNERABLE.

I know that in 2026 there are robots that are BETTER than these GIBBO monstrosities. It's difficult to imagine that there are currently any robots who are WORSE. GIB/GIBBO rots and has always rotted - at least since I began playing with and against these GIB pieces of junk in 2017. I cannot, from personal experience, say that GIB rotted before 2017, but MANY fine bridge players have repeatedly told me that it was wretched even then.

https://www.bridgeba...CCQ%7Cmc%7C6%7C

[benellis58]

I've often said that the GIBBO monstrosities would be better bidders if they were BARRED from EVER cuebidding. Whenever my GIBBO "partner" makes one of his beloved (and usually INSANE) high-level cuebids...out of the BLUE...I IMMEDIATELY expect to get a bad result. The GIB definitions on this hand also stink, but that is ALWAYS to be expected, since the author of them has proven numerous times that he is the last person on Earth that you would want writing definitions.

Note that after North's STUPID 3S call, there was now no way to get to 3NT from HIS side, where it would have been cold. If the M.O.R.O.N. insisted on "cuebidding", he should have bid three HEARTS, not 3S. THEN we could have reached 3NT from his side. We could ALSO have done so if the jerk had bid 3D (or if he had taken a shot at 3NT despite lacking a spade stopper). But the piece of trash managed to find the ONE call (3S) that GUARANTEED that we would NEVER reach 3NT from the CORRECT side.

Ginsberg's IGNORANT "Bridgeplayer" (sic!) strikes AGAIN! Garbage - ALWAYS garbage.

https://www.bridgeba...CST%7Cmc%7C8%7C

[benellis58]

Imbecilic play of the TWO (!) of hearts by West at trick one.

I.D.I.O.T.I.C. shift (!) to the 8 of spades by West at trick three.

GIB/GIBBO proves time...after time...after time...after (repeat on CONTINUOUS loop!) time...that it absolutely, totally, COMPLETELY stinks. GIB/GIBBO is the worst EVER. Absolute garbage. An embarrassment to bridge.

https://www.bridgeba...H6%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

Fantastically stupid double of 4S by the GIBBO trashcan in the North.

Apart from the enormously stupid double itself, note that Ginsberg's I.D.I.O.T.I.C. "Bridgeplayer" (sic!) does not even adhere to his own (typically pathetic) GIB definition of the double, which claims that it shows "8+ HCP". The GIBBO dirtbag actually has only FOUR (!) HCP.

Is there ANYONE...ANYWHERE...who is still naive enough to proudly state that these GIB/GIBBO pieces of filth are "better than most human players"?

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

[benellis58]

The type of M.O.R.O.N.I.C. definition that we have sadly come to expect from the woefully incompetent author of GIB definitions:

3C is ridiculously defined as:

"4+ diamonds". Okay, I suppose.

"21- HCP". One hundred percent useless! "21-" means zero to 21. How the HELL is that of ANY use whatsoever...unless the purpose is to show that the author of the definition is TOTALLY incompetent at writing definitions?

"3- card diamonds". Not only does this make absolutely NO sense in the context of the auction, but it also CONTRADICTS what was stated in the beginning of this SAME execrable definition, where the world's worst definition writer began by saying that the call showed at least FOUR diamonds! Has there ever been anyone in the history of the world who was so stunningly incompetent at writing definitions? EVER???!!!

"18-22 total points". Pulled out of thin air, as usual, since the author of the GIB definitions has proven time after time that he has NO understanding of "total" points. And speaking of contradictions, how is it that according to the WIZARD who wrote this utter nonsense, South could have ZERO (!) HCP (which is obviously insane) but at the same time has at LEAST 18 "total" points?

AND (!!!) notice that the call being defined is three CLUBS...yet the piece of garbage GIB definition says nothing...NOTHING (!)...at ALL (!!!) about...CLUBS!!! Whoever wrote these perpetually execrable GIB definitions shows repeatedly that he has a WORLD CLASS lack of talent for writing definitions!

Now, on to the auction, which, as expected, produces more lunacy.

First, notice North's 3S bid: a (sadly!) TYPICAL and characteristically poorly-judged CUEBID with a typically worthless definition. THEN...having ALREADY (!) cuebid 3S, North later bids 5C, which has the SAME definition that 3S had, but without the word "forcing". And even if North chooses to now bid five of a minor with the SAME "values" that he has ALREADY shown (and regardless of the result on this random hand), it seems typically perverse that the minor he chooses to support (despite having three little cards in each of clubs and diamonds) is his "partner's" second suit rather than his first.

We scored 70 % on the board. The NS pairs that did better defended against EW contracts of a lowly 2H (!), holding it to 9 tricks four times and 10 tricks one time. All other NS pairs played in 5C doubled, with these results:

Our pair and three others did best, going down "only" two.
Three pairs went down three.
One pair went down four.
One pair went down five.
SIX (!) pairs went down SIX!
THREE (!) pairs went down SEVEN!

So what do I conclude from all this? I conclude that GIB/GIBBO sucks pumice and that it COMPLETELY rots. GIB/GIBBO is a longstanding embarrassment to bridge.

https://www.bridgeba...CD2%7Cmc%7C9%7C