[mikl_plkcc]

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I had 9 playing tricks and 4 defensive tricks so I opened 2♣, followed by 2♠ over the expected 2♦.

The robot then bid cheaper minor, showing it could give me nothing, and I rebid the suit, which should turn off the game force.

The robot, to my surprise, bid 3NT holding a void in my suit! I corrected to 4♠ as my suit was self sufficient, and the robot pulled it to 5♣!

What did it think that my 4♠ wasn't showing a long, strong suit?

[hrothgar]

mikl_plkcc, on 2025-July-22, 16:27, said:

What did it think that my 4♠ wasn't showing a long, strong suit?

With 9 tricks in hand, why did you think that 3N was a bad contract?

Even if you're worries about the Diamonds, you need to understand that

1. The robots are really really bad
2. There's a lot of risk in correcting to Spades

[Huibertus]

With 9 tricks at hand, and expecting no help from partner, why would you want to be anywhere else then in 3NT? The ONLY thing you need from partner is ♦ King protected for the lead, or a long enough ♦ suit so they can never cash 5 of them.

You're not going to make more tricks in ♠ then you are in NT very often. In this case you can, provided they do not lead ♦ against 3NT AND you guess the ♦ right in 4♠ as luckily there is a guess so you have a chance. That's the only scenario. Good job by the bot to assesses 3NT is the place to be!