[kenberg]

This is both some commentary and a request.

I have played several times in the last couple of days with the GIB robots. I set up a table with myself as South and the three GIBs in the remaining spots. I have been setting the scoring at imps. Mostly I have been losing but on the last session I and my GIB partner were up over 60 imps when I signed off, much to my satisfaction.


A bit ago tonight Ritang sent out a message asking us to please not set the scoring to imps when using the GIBs, the reason being that he feels it screws up the across the field scoring. I of course will comply if need be but I first hope something can be done. I really like seeing how I come out, scoring against the field, with GIB North as my partner and playing against the other GIBs. I realize I could play rubber bridge (Ritang's suggestion) but I would rather play imps, or maybe mps from time to time. It must be possible to set these things so we can see how our table scores against the field without having our results enterred into the field scoring, is it not?


BTW, the GIBs bid very well although they do like to bid slams at the slighest encouragement. I had the following uncontested auction: 1S-2C-2S-2N-3S-4S-6C!. And they don't even play 2/1, or at least they don't appear to be playing it. Maybe I should have made 6C but I had a bad trump split. I have also bid slams after a cuebidding sequence only to have GIB raise. Sometimes she is right.

Most pick-up games I have are far more likely to introduce a random score into the field than are my games with the GIBs.

Ken

[uday]

For now, I think it is ok to play IMPs as long as you are playing real bridge (ie, nothing too crazy that will screw up the IMPs for others).

Eventually we'll either use a separate pool of deals for robots and/or find a way to do what you suggest.

[cherdano]

I am sure that my mistakes screw up the scoring much more than GIB's. However, the problem with GIB is if there are a couple of GIBs playing the same board, they will often bid to the same contract etc., so that this same contract with the same result will appear a couple of times in the comparisons.

Arend

[Gerben42]

That's the greatness of GIB: It will not always do the same thing given the same situation. It will simulate hands that are in accordance with what happened before. If there is a close decision, it might go either way.