[benellis58]

The clueless twit - oh, sorry, I mean the GIBBO robot - in the West feels it's essential to pop his club queen at trick two and even more essential to (of COURSE) immediately return a club, because after all, DECLARER was playing clubs. No wonder these clowns are the perennial doormats of bridge: they just plain rot!

https://www.bridgeba...CC4%7Cmc%7C9%7C

[benellis58]

Three hearts? Why the HELL is the dimwit in the West bidding three hearts? Oops, sorry - silly question. Yeah, I know: He's a GIBBO robot. That's why he's bidding 3H - because as a GIBBO robot, bidding intelligently is something he just plain never mastered. We should feel sorry for the perpetual loser. My only real question is why doesn't he face facts, admit that he's completely hopeless at bridge, and quit it forever?

https://www.bridgeba...S5%7Cpc%7CD5%7C

[benellis58]

Is anyone in the mood for a good laugh? Oh, you are? Great! Prepare to laugh yourself silly as you watch the hilarious "defence" perpetrated by the GIBBO robots sitting East-West. If a movie series is ever made about bridge's "Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight", I'm sure that GIBBO robots will be cast in the starring roles!

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

[benellis58]

Another absolute JOKE of a "defence" from beginning to end - perpetrated of COURSE by the witless wonders known as GIBBO robots. They are nothing but ugly blotches on the face of bridge.

https://www.bridgeba...DK%7Cpc%7CD7%7C

[benellis58]

It didn't matter what West played at trick three, but just in CASE it might have mattered, he went out of his way to make the stupidest return possible: a diamond - the suit DECLARER had just played. Pathetic, hopeless, and stupid - as usual for these relentlessly pitiful GIBBO bozos.

https://www.bridgeba...H6%7Cmc%7C12%7C

[benellis58]

I was surprised and pleased to see that we scored 92.50 % on this board, but as usual that is not why I'm posting it. I'm posting it ONLY to document another in the massive collection of remarkably stupid leads by the pieces of trash known as GIBBO robots. Regardless of layout, regardless of result, the dumbo in the North has a clearcut heart lead (the suit his partner South OVERCALLED!), with J32. Instead, the stooge leads the 8 of diamonds, the suit that BOTH his opponents bid (!), from his worthless 84 doubleton. Speaking of "worthless", that's an EXCELLENT description of the GIBBO robots. Never in my life have I ever seen even a single human player as stunningly bad as these incompetent clowns.

https://www.bridgeba...C7%7Cpc%7CH4%7C

[benellis58]

Trick five: West plays a club. Yes, West is INDEED a GIBBO robot.

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

[benellis58]

Here's my first important bridge tip:

When you're playing against GIBBO robot opponents, always assume that everything they do is I.D.I.O.T.I.C.

[benellis58]

Here's my second important bridge tip:

When you're playing with a GIBBO robot as your (if you'll pardon the expression) "partner", always assume that everything he does is I.D.I.O.T.I.C.

[benellis58]

Does the "G" in GIBBO stand for "Goofball"? I'm asking because West is indeed a goofball. Look at this jerk's 3D bid and look at his runout to 3H. If some modern-day Dr. Frankenstein tried to create a REALLY stupid robot, he'd have a very difficult time matching the boundless ignorance of the GIBBO robots. They suck pumice.

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

[benellis58]

Clown wins club jack at trick two. Clown returns CLUB at trick three...as EXPECTED...because it's ALWAYS expected that these braindead witlings will do something extremely stupid. They stink.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p9at8c4

[benellis58]

West decides he doesn't WANT a sixth trick for his side, as he UNDERLEADS his heart ace instead of cashing it. These clowns should bottle their saliva and sell it as a highly-priced perfume, They could call it "Eau de stupidité". They'd probably make millions. The only hassle would be finding someone to count their money, because I'm sure that task would be far too difficult for them.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/4vzrtfne

[benellis58]

At trick one, the GIBBO robot sitting East decides to demonstrate HIS idea of a hold-up play. No, it DOESN'T work out well for him. Are you surprised? No, neither was I. You count on these jerks to botch things at every opportunity, because that's what LOSERS like GIBBO robots do.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/baav26kt

[benellis58]

Here is a hand that shows beyond a shadow of a doubt what utter pieces of garbage the GIBBO robots are. But first an explanation:

I've mentioned a few times in the past that most days I play some "Challenge" hands, but for a change of pace I play them "Hearts-Style", meaning that I try to LOSE as many tricks as possible. On every hand, at my first turn to bid, I bid 7NT, and if I am doubled, I redouble. A PERFECT result for me would be 7NT redoubled down 13. The robots, of course, are playing their "normal" bridge to the "best" (ha, HA, HA!) of their "ability" and trying to take as many tricks as possible. They assume that I am doing the same (but of course I am actually trying to LOSE as many tricks as I can).

This game does not affect any other humans in any way, as I am playing a FREE four-board Challenge WITH a robot "partner" and AGAINST two robot opponents. Nothing is at stake. There is no charge and there are no prizes or points awarded. It's purely for "fun" and it's a "best hand" game, so I, the only human, am always guaranteed to have the best hand, as far as high card points.

Look at the hand linked below. Watch what happens on the first three tricks, especially trick number three! After watching this, the whole WORLD should agree with me when I state that even the WORST human player I EVER encountered is better than these absolutely WRETCHED GIBBO robots. They are pure, utter, useless GARBAGE, as this hand clearly indicates.

The only caveat I will offer is that as far as I know, the GIBBO robots in this Challenge game are not the so-called "advanced" (ha, HA, HA!) robots, but who cares? Anyone or anything who would do what West did on this hand obviously has NO idea of how to play cards...and probably also has no idea how to tie his shoelaces or chew gum. The robots are THAT stupid. Look at trick three!!! And by the way, if a HUMAN committed the same atrocity as the clueless GIBBO robot in the West does here, the HUMAN might at least have the excuse that he was tired...or felt ill...or was distracted by something ("a cow flew by"), or that he misclicked...but ROBOTS do not get tired, do not feel ill, do not get distracted, and do not misclick, so GIBBO ROBOTS have NO excuse whatsoever for their unimaginable stupidity!

https://www.bridgeba...H4%7Cpc%7CC3%7C

[benellis58]

Never mind the result on this board, which happened to be 94.74 % for North-South and 5.26 % for East-West.

Never mind whatever the random layout happened to be on this random board in the random game of bridge.

Never mind looking at all four hands to see if EW could have done better.

Never mind all of that, and never mind anything else except these two very revealing points about the "logic" of the GIBBO robots:

One: As far as East knew, South had DIAMONDS because South's initial response to North's opening 1C bid was one DIAMOND. Yet, in keeping with his usual PERVERSE and usually UNSUCCESSFUL philosophy on opening leads, East thought that the best thing he could possibly do would be to lead his DIAMOND five from his worthless 54 doubleton. Even if this had miraculously turned out to be his BEST lead on this random hand, it still would have had no LOGIC behind it.

Two: East wins his club ace at trick six. As the GIBBO robots perversely LOVE to do, he IMMEDIATELY plays back a CLUB at trick seven. Again, even if this had miraculously turned out to be his BEST play on this random hand, it still would have had no LOGIC behind it. Why do they LOVE to return the suit DECLARER plays? Can't they figure out that if he thinks it's good for HIM, it's probably not good for THEM?

https://www.bridgeba...H9%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

Different strokes for different folks, and yes, leads can involve guesswork and luck, but as far as I'm concerned, a club lead from West is obvious (and I would say that even if it had turned out poorly). West, however, being a GIBBO robot, LOVES to lead doubletons, be they worthless ones or honour doubleton (as was the case here). Honour doubleton is often a DANGEROUS (and silly!) lead, as this random hand shows. Such a lead OFTEN compresses or even eliminates defensive tricks that would have been GUARANTEED had the lead not been made. On this random hand, the fatuous lead of the queen of diamonds IMMEDIATELY set up a parking place for South's club loser.

When West won his heart ace at trick four, he BELATEDLY played a club, but as Neil Young might have said, it was "too late to keep the change".

Thanks to West's typically poor choice of a lead, NS emerged with a shared top of 85 % while the hopeless and hapless GIBBO robots sitting EW emerged with a shared bottom of 15 %...but they will probably NEVER learn.

https://www.bridgeba...D7%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

Continuing our theme of hopeless leads by the execrable GIBBO robots:

South opens 1D and later doubles East's 2D, showing, as per the GIB definition "...rebiddable diamonds; KQ of diamonds" (meaning KQ or better, in terms of honour quality). Does North therefore logically lead a DIAMOND against West's 3H? No. Of COURSE he doesn't, because HE'S a GIBBO robot and they HATE leading partner's suit.

Okay, then, what does he lead? He leads a...SPADE, which is KNOWN to be DECLARER'S first suit, and he leads the spade INTO declarer.

Yes, I see that North has a stiff spade, and yes, I realize that sometimes it could turn out to be the winning lead...but I think that more often it will turn out to be a BAD lead, as it quite CLEARLY was on THIS random hand. Not only did it eliminate declarer's potential guess about how to play spades, but it also meant that NS failed to take their four TOP tricks in clubs and diamonds, thereby allowing declarer to score an "impossible" overtrick. As is SO often the case, if the GIBBO robots CAN get it wrong, they WILL get it wrong.

https://www.bridgeba...CA%7Cpc%7CH3%7C

[benellis58]

We had a shared top of 95 % on this board, but I'm posting it not because of the hand itself, but to showcase the INCONSISTENT bidding of GIBBO robots.

On this hand, North begins with 2S, minor suit Stayman, and when South denies a four-card minor by bidding 2NT, North continues with 3D. This is defined as "4+ clubs; rebiddable diamonds; 10+ total points". This certainly describes his hand, so (for ONCE!) I have no problem with either the GIBBO robot's bid OR the GIB definition. Alert the press!

BUT - and THIS is why I'm posting this hand - I have OFTEN seen the robots bid this SAME hand type differently. OFTEN they begin, as North did, with MSS...but then over pard's 2NT call, they OFTEN now bid three HEARTS (showing a stiff or void in hearts) RATHER than 3D as they did here. I don't care which approach they take, but they SHOULD be CONSISTENT in their approach...and it seems that they are not.

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

[benellis58]

Trick five: The GIBBO robot sitting East...POPS his heart ace, ELIMINATING the need for me to guess the suit. Thank you for ALWAYS being so generous with your "defence", Mr. East. His play there, combined with his earlier pitching of THREE hearts, helps him to add yet another total zero to his massive lifetime collection.

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

[benellis58]

North leaps to 3NT. NS score 100 % on the board for making it.

So the GIBBO robot sitting North did something good and earned us a top, right?

Uhh...NO!

Playing in even ONE or TWO NT and scoring "only" plus 150 would have been the SAME top, because we were the only pair to take nine tricks. Nine pairs played in TWO NT, taking exactly EIGHT tricks for plus 120. One pair played in TWO NT and took only SEVEN tricks for minus 50. One pair played in TWO NT and took only SIX tricks for minus 100. And one pair defended 1S by West and beat it two tricks for plus 100.

So leaping to 3NT gained NOTHING. But it goes beyond that: South's balancing 1NT showed 11-15 HCP and North had "only" 12, so he probably should have ONLY invited by raising to 2NT. For what it's worth, I would have bid three, for the same result, but what if I had "only" 11 or 12 HCP (which I could EASILY have had) rather than my actual thirteen? Then I would have PASSED 2NT, which probably would have been good, because we probably wouldn't have been able to make three.

So: As these simple-minded GIBBO robots do FAR too often, North UNILATERALLY overbid to 3NT. It made - bravo - but he gained NOTHING because we would have had the same top anyway - but if he had not LUCKED OUT by catching me with 13 and watching me be the ONLY one to take 9 tricks, his UNILATERAL overbid would have given us a BAD score for no reason. No wonder these clowns have their MASSIVE lifetime collection of total zeroes.

https://www.bridgeba...CH9%7Cmc%7C9%7C