[benellis58]

South's 3S was NOT a game try. It was merely competitive, although the typically useless and poorly-written GIB definition was so vague that it was meaningless tripe. North had absolutely NO reason to raise to four. First, as explained, 3S was merely competitive, and second, North had NOTHING more than he had already shown with his earlier 2S bid. He had a pancake flat 4-3-3-3 8-count. The GIB definitions of 2S and 4S are (hilariously) IDENTICAL...which perhaps means that GIBBO recommends this ludicrous bidding. The system is a joke, the definitions are a joke, and the useless robots are a joke.

Anyway, North's typically imbecilic bidding landed NS in a NO-PLAY 4S contract with four TOP losers: AK of spades (trump), ace of hearts, and ace of clubs. That was the BAD news for NS...but there was also GOOD news for NS. The GOOD news was that two GIBBO robots were "defending", snd - sure enough - they butchered the "defence" (what ELSE is new?) and allowed the "impossible" contract to make. Here's what these clueless, hopeless saps did:

I won the diamond lead in hand and saw that my only real hope was to have these two simpleminded jerks crash their trump honours, so at trick two I led my 2 of clubs from Q2 dub towards dummy North's KJ7. Sure enough, West popped his ace...because in case I was MISSING the queen, he wanted to make CERTAIN that I would "guess" the clubs correctly. Then, of COURSE, the ignorant bonehead immediately played a second CLUB, because these stooges stupidly LOVE to return the suit DECLARER is playing. (Yes, I realize that is TOTALLY contrary to logic!). I won dummy's king (swallowing my now-stiff queen) and played dummy's high jack, pitching the heart four from my hand. Then the master stroke: I led dummy's queen of spades (trump), and as I had hoped for, East VERY STUPIDLY...popped his spade ace from A6 dub, crashing West's stiff queen, and turning their two "guaranteed" trump winners into only one. There was absolutely NO reason for the braindead dolt to pop his ace. The game made and these two disgusting pieces of garbage added yet ANOTHER total zero to their world class collection of complete and utter failure.

But by ALL means, GIBBO lovers, PLEASE tell me AGAIN about how the GIBBO robots are "better than most human players".

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p948xva

[benellis58]

Down only one, thanks to a typically hopeless "defence" by the execrable GIBBO robots sitting East-West.

The board was played 45 times. A shared top of 87.50 % went to 12 NS pairs who played 2S (!) apparently after South opened 2S (!) and all passed. The next highest score was my lone 72.73 % for one down in 4S. Then came 26 NS pairs who scored 42.05 % for going two down in 4S. Next, one NS scored 5.68 % for going down three in...3NT. And finally, another five NS pairs also scored 5.68 % for going down three in 4S.

So, thank you Mr. West and Mr. East at my table, for your "defence" that allowed me to obtain a decent score on the board. I often criticize your...ahem..."ability"...but I always appreciate your great generosity in giving good scores to your opponents.

https://www.bridgeba...CD7%7Cmc%7C9%7C

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Trick 6: The GIBBO robot "defending" in the East seat says," Declarer might have a spade guess on this hand. Hmm, how can I help him? I know! I'll LEAD a spade right now and solve his guess for him! I just LOVE helping out my opponents!"

https://www.bridgeba...S3%7Cmc%7C10%7C

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Trick 5: West leads the jack of spades just to make CERTAIN that declarer cannot possibly go wrong in the suit.

Trick 7: East plays the jack of clubs just to make CERTAIN that declarer cannot possibly go wrong in the suit.

Symmetry!

The GIBBO "defenders" might quite possibly be among the worst of all time, but on the positive side they are perhaps the most generous of all time. Such nice, friendly, non-competitive players who clearly have no interest in doing well themselves but who LOVE to help their OPPONENTS succeed!

https://www.bridgeba...C3%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

Not my table, but a hilarious auction showcasing how the pathetic GIBBO robots have no idea about how to bid.

The anonymous human South for some reason chooses to open 1C rather than the normal 1NT.

The robot in the North bids 1D, which the typically annoying GIB definition tells us is "One over one". Thanks SO much, Mr. GIB, for that oh-so-useful information that we could NEVER have figured out for ourselves! Let me make sure that I understand this highly complex principle: Are you saying that when North bids ONE diamond over South's ONE club, that is "One over one"? Wow! I'm SO impressed, Mr. GIB! How did you EVER figure that out? And thanks SO much for telling us. Just one question, though: How the HELL is this of ANY use...whatsoever?

Anyway, the anonymous human South now makes his second out-of-the-ordinary call by bidding 2D. But we are NEVER here to criticize or even question humans, so let's move on the one bid that was the impetus for this post:

Over South's 2D, the GIBBO dolt in the North bids...four diamonds! He does this, bypassing 3NT (!), with KQ5, KQ9, AK75, 984. He has a PANCAKE FLAT hand...with a mere FOUR diamonds...and SEVENTEEN (!) good HCP...and yet he's emphasizing his DIAMOND suit? Have the GIBBO instructors failed to tell this GERBIL that there's a high-scoring strain called no trump? The GIB definition of 4D is, by the way, the type of absolute garbage that many have come to expect, but I'm not even going to waste my time or yours in exploring how useless it is.

https://www.bridgeba...S9%7Cpc%7CH6%7C

[benellis58]

Just a simple little thing that didn't even cost them, but notice that East plays the TEN of clubs at trick one instead of CORRECTLY playing the NINE.

The reason that I'm posting this is to underscore the fact that the reprehensible GIBBO robots make numerous errors that often go unnoticed or unpunished either through luck or because they are less bad than their more GLARING and COSTLY errors - which are ALSO fairly frequent.

BTW, on this board, they added one MORE absolute zero to their massive lifetime collection...although the zero here was not due to East's relatively minor error at trick one.

https://www.bridgeba...D9%7Cpc%7CH2%7C

[benellis58]

This hand shows that as always the GIBBO robots (in this case East) have absolutely no idea of how to bid two-suiters.

It also shows how these clueless clods (in this case West) overbid egregiously when their partner opens a major and then rebids that major over a 1NT response. Just look at West's insane leap to 4H.

GIBBO robots stink at bridge. They are the lowest of the low.

https://www.bridgeba...CK%7Cpc%7CCT%7C

[benellis58]

Trick One: East incorrectly plays the 9 of clubs instead of the 7. TOTAL disregard for spot cards. Ho hum, what ELSE is new for these harebrained dimwits?

Trick Two: East incorrectly plays the 7 of diamonds instead of the 4. TOTAL disregard for spot cards. Ho hum, what ELSE is new for these harebrained dimwits?

Trick Four: Having won his spade ace at trick 3, what does East play to trick 4? Silly question, because of COURSE he plays a DIAMOND, the suit DECLARER was playing. Declarer, well aware that he is playing against one of the absolutely worst "defenders" in the history of bridge, WISELY allows East to hold the trick, CONFIDENT in the belief that the incompetent bozo will continue the suit.

Trick Five: Sure enough, East stupidly DOES play ANOTHER diamond. Do these total rejects have brains made of cereal grains?

The nonsense continues. The EW clowns NEVER score even a SINGLE club trick. Declarer takes 8 tricks, sharing a top with one other human who also took 8.

GIBBO robots rot.

https://www.bridgeba...CS3%7Cmc%7C8%7C

[benellis58]

Stupid pass of 1C by North, proving for what - maybe the millionth time (?) - that GIBBO robots are incompetent losers with zero idea about how to play bridge. The whole lot of them should be displayed with a sign saying "Garage Sale". The problem, though, is who in their right mind would want to buy them?


https://www.bridgeba...D4%7Cpc%7CDT%7C

[benellis58]

We got to 6NT and made all 13 tricks. We got the "impossible" thirteenth trick thanks to West's SUB*****IC lead of the 7 of diamonds from QJ9753. We scored 92.86 % on the board, losing only to one pair who bid and made the "impossible" 7NT, so I'm not complaining about the result.

I AM, however, complaining about the totally stupid and unworkable GIBBO system. You can see from the bidding diagram the GIB definition of South's 2NT bid. What you can't see is that had South instead bid 3NT at that point, the GIB definition of 3NT would have been EXACTLY THE SAME (!) as the one for 2NT! This shows how wasteful, shortsighted, redundant, and PATHETIC the GIBBO system is. It reeks. It stinks. It rots. It is garbage.

https://www.bridgeba...C4%7Cmc%7C13%7C

[benellis58]

Sorry, Mr. GIBBO, but I am not impressed by North's final pass. It's also very strange, because the GIBBO monstrosities usually overbid and overcompete...even with extremely limited values. Maybe they just enjoy doing whatever is wrong on any given hand. Maybe that's one of the Ten Commandments on their home planet of Bizarro World.

https://www.bridgeba...C5%7Cpc%7CDK%7C

[benellis58]

As South I wanted to, rightly or wrongly, make a PENALTY double of East's 3D. However, in the ridiculous GIBBO system, a double there would have been takeout, which is really, really stupid (just like countless other ridiculous aspects of the antiquated and largely worthless GIBBO system).

Why on EARTH would South want to make a TAKEOUT double on this auction in this situation? Consider:

One: He has already opened 1NT, so his partner already has a fairly good idea of his hand (and yes, I AM aware that I actually have EIGHTEEN HCP).

Two: North transferred to spades over 1NT, and South bid 2S over East's double of the 2H transfer. According to the GIB definition, South's bid over the double shows "3-5 spades", so presumably NS have FOUND their fit...AND North presumably believes that South does indeed have at least three spades and possibly as many as five...yet North chose to PASS 2S despite that knowledge. Therefore, why on EARTH would it be necessary for South to make a TAKEOUT double of 3D, seeking a NS "fit"...when the NS fit is ALREADY KNOWN by BOTH North and South...AND when North is known by his pass of 2S to have limited values? And, yes, I AM aware that I "lied" and violated the GIBBO system by bidding 2S with "only" 2S...but I did so knowingly, and in fact OFTEN knowingly violate the GIBBO system because I consider it to be a piece of total garbage, so I do what I think is right and ignore the hogwash of the GIB definitions at will.

Three: South is sitting BEHIND the 3D bidder.

Four: The 3D bidder is a PASSED hand who could not even squeak out an opening bid in THIRD seat white against red! Guess what: He cannot have a BIG hand! He is clearly merely competing, and these dimwits often stretch TOO hard in doing so.

Five: West has been completely silent thus far and could provide very little assistance for East (although in practice he had more significant strength than anyone would likely have anticipated).

Six: If doubling 3D is "wrong", which it does NOT rate to be, North might choose to pull to 3S anyway. On THIS random hand, EVEN if South's double of 3D was for penalty, North would probably pull to 3S anyway, so the result would likely have been the same, but...

It's not the RESULT I am complaining about. It's the totally STUPID GIBBO system that decrees that a double here would have been takeout. For the record, we scored 55.88 % for being in 3S and making an overtrick. Here's the full story:

One NS pair bid 5S and went down 2.
Six NS pairs bid 4S. Of those, four made exactly four, and two went down one.
Five NS pairs, including mine, bid 3S. Of those, three including mine made an overtrick and two made exactly three.
Three NS pairs bid 2S. Of those, one made two overtricks, and two made one overtrick.
Five NS pairs defended 4H doubled. Of those, one beat it three and one beat it two.
One NS pair...PASSED OUT (!) the hand.

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

[benellis58]

Writing posts in this thread is an unending task, because no matter how many are written it will remain impossible to adequately describe how deeply, unendingly, and horrifically hopeless the GIBBO robots are at every aspect of bridge. They truly rot, and they rot so completely and so egregiously that their flaws can NEVER be FULLY dissected.

[benellis58]

"Interesting" bidding choices by the GIBBO robot sitting North. Also interesting that NO definition is given for his 4S bid - ???.

https://www.bridgeba...D8%7Cmc%7C12%7C

[benellis58]

The GIBBO robot sitting East wins his offside club king at trick two. At trick three he confirms his status as one of the worst "bridge players" of all time by...returning a...CLUB.

https://www.bridgeba...H4%7Cmc%7C12%7C

[benellis58]

The GIBBO robot FAILS to cover the spade 8 at trick two. It COSTS him.

https://www.bridgeba...D9%7Cmc%7C12%7C

[benellis58]

Brilliant lead - NOT!

https://www.bridgeba...CT%7Cpc%7CH8%7C

[benellis58]

Not what I'd call the best defence of the century:

https://www.bridgeba...C9%7Cpc%7CCK%7C

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Trick 7: East foolishly leads the FOUR of diamonds from J4 doubleton. Understandably, West cannot read this, so he takes only TWO of the FOUR diamond tricks he is entitled to at that point. We go down "only" two tricks and we score 75.61 % on the board, all because the GIBBO robot sitting East couldn't figure out to play the proper diamond, even though he had only two of them. A CHIMPANZEE would have had a 50 % chance of getting it right!

https://www.bridgeba...CH2%7Cmc%7C5%7C

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East foolishly plays (and WASTES) his heart king at trick one, when any decent player would know to play the three. The problem is that East is definitely not a decent player - he's a typically hopeless GIBBO robot. He proves this again when he stupidly pitches a heart at trick four. Declarer takes 12 tricks, NS score 100 % on the board, and EW add ANOTHER zero to their lifetime collection. How have the GIBBO robots accumulated SO many zeroes? Well, the fact that they have no idea how to play bridge might have something to do with it.

https://www.bridgeba...H9%7Cmc%7C12%7C