[benellis58]

Clueless GIBBO robot DECLARER completely butchers the play and goes down in a cold contract.

And yes, declarer play IS the one and ONLY facet of bridge that the despicable robots are supposed to be "good" at. In fairness, it is the best part of their game (since they are totally worthless at everything else about bridge), but as this hand shows, they aren't very good EVEN at declaring.

https://www.bridgeba...HJ%7Cpc%7CHT%7C

[benellis58]

Trick 9: The piece of GIBBO garbage sitting in the East seat makes a play so stunningly stupid that only a GIBBO robot would find it. The clueless dolt plays a HEART, the suit that DECLARER played TWICE...rather than playing an OBVIOUS diamond (the suit where West, East's partner, earlier won the JACK).

I am constantly disgusted by the abject incompetence of these GIBBO pieces of trash, but I am never surprised by their enormously witless stupid play. They are the pits, the lowest of the low, the worst of the worst.

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

[benellis58]

Question: Ben, are the GIBBO robots the worst "bridge players" you have ever encountered in your entire life?
Answer: Yes, they are.
Question: Just to clarify, does that mean that they are worse than even the worst human player you ever encountered?
Answer: Yes, and not just worse, but far worse.
Question: How do you think the GIBBO robots will be remembered?
Answer: Well, I can't predict the future, but I certainly hope that they will be remembered as an ugly stain on the face of bridge and as an embarrassment to the game.
Question: What would you suggest should be done with the GIBBO robots?
Answer: I suggest that they be removed, never heard from or even mentioned again, and replaced by decent robots.
Question: If that happened, what do you think the result would be?
Answer: I think the people who play on BBO would be much more satisfied and I think BBO, having more satisfied customers, would probably see its client base and its profits increase.

[benellis58]

Seems to me that North might "risk" a 5C bid with his hand opposite a partner who...bid FOUR CLUBS...vulnerable...opposite a partner (North) who PASSED...and into a live auction...with BOTH opponents bidding!

But he chooses to sell out. Okay, c'est la vie, but now he's on lead, and he leads...the ten of hearts! He DOESN'T lead a club. He DOESN'T lead his STIFF ace of diamonds. He looks at his hand and says, "Good golly, Miss Molly, a HEART will surely be the killing lead, but it must be specifically the TEN of hearts! No other heart will do!"

They gave Jerry Seinfeld a TV show. Why don't they give THIS nitwit one? He's funnier than any professional comedian I've ever seen. He's probably also a far worse bridge player than any professional comedian who ever played a hand of bridge. In a money game Harpo Marx would have bankrupted him.

Eleven tricks were open and shut for EW on any lead, but that doesn't diminish in any way the magnitude of North's ignorance.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yr4zwp4r

[benellis58]

West is pseudo-squeezed. Does he get it right?

What do you think? Correct: He's a GIBBO robot, so of COURSE he gets it wrong.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2899nwfa

[benellis58]

Note: This is NOT a repeat of # 1225 immediately above. It is a completely different hand, but with EXACTLY the same theme.

West is pseudo-squeezed. Does he get it right?

What do you think? Correct: He's a GIBBO robot, so of COURSE he gets it wrong.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p9ysda7

[benellis58]

Trick two: The typically imbecilic GIBBO robot in the East makes a zero percent play. The pitiful excuse for a bridge player stupidly covers the diamond ten. This is a horrendous play. His partner West could conceivably have a stiff queen, in which case this reject has just collapsed his side's two "guaranteed" diamond (trump) tricks into only one.

The poor deluded souls who attempt to defend these indefensible GIBBO twits will naively say, "Yeah, but if his partner DOESN'T have the queen, it won't cost". Well, dear naive defenders of GIBBO, if that's the best you can come up with, don't waste your time and money going to law school, because I'm afraid you won't make the grade! First, it's no defence to say "Sometimes...if we're lucky...it won't cost". But beyond that...

It can STILL cost ANYWAY! Here, for example, once the jerk covered, I was GUARANTEED to lose only one diamond trick...whereas if by some miracle he had actually made the simple, correct, and obvious play of NOT covering, I could conceivably have gone wrong by rising with dummy's ace...which would have resulted in my losing TWO diamond tricks rather than one and his WINNING two diamond tricks rather than only one.

But the delusional GIBBO apologists might now say, "Yeah, Ben, but you probably would have guessed diamonds correctly even if he didn't make the sublimely BONEHEADED play of covering your ten with his jack". First, I love it that even his DEFENDERS realize his cover was "BONEHEADED". Second, who knows? Maybe I would NOT have guessed right. And third, and third, and third...EVEN if his play would not have cost because his partner did NOT have a stiff diamond queen, and EVEN if I would have guessed the suit right anyway, meaning that if BOTH those things happened his BONEHEADED play would not have cost, it...would have gained...NOTHING! So he made a play that could NEVER gain, could sometimes (in fact, perhaps OFTEN!) cost, and would at BEST break even. That is a TEXTBOOK example of a ZERO PERCENT PLAY, one of the very few bridge "plays" that these disgusting pieces of garbage are "good" at.

GIB/GIBBO robots absolutely rot!

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/5b9mfrnw

[benellis58]

Why is North accepting South's game try? 3D asks North to focus on his...DUH...diamonds! His diamonds are 984, which is just about the absolute WORST holding (three small) that he could have!

He doesn't have high cards in the suit, which would be "working" values. He doesn't have shortness in the suit, which would allow his partner to ruff in the dummy. He doesn't have length in the suit, which could provide winners through the double fit. He has three small. He has the worst holding he could have...but he accepts. He is a colossal M.O.R.O.N. with ZERO idea about how to play bridge. Or, to put it more concisely in terms the whole world will understand, he is a GIBBO robot, the absolute lowest of the low!

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

[benellis58]

As you can see, from East's side East-West are ice cold for 6D. They managed to bid (only) FOUR and made two overtricks.

Trust me when I say that the last thing I want to do is defend these nauseating GIBBO robots, but in fairness I must point out that their truly execrable, antiquated GIBBO system (a piece of garbage if ever there was one!) might make bidding difficult for anyone. The fact that the GIB definitions are among the worst in the history of bridge might also give the robots an excuse for their frequently laughable and ineffective auctions. In this case, the GIB definition of East's 4D is "5+ diamonds". NO other info is provided. No wonder these simps never know what their "partner" has.

https://www.bridgeba...C3%7Cmc%7C12%7C

[benellis58]

HIGHLY questionable 2S bid by North, but it worked out fine, as we had a shared top of 98.86 % for "only" going down one in 2NT.

As you would expect, the hopeless GIBBO "defenders" sitting EW were of great assistance.

West chose to lead a club. I won and played a heart. The oblivious dweeb in the West won his heart king and...of COURSE...played another HEART, perversely (as always!) figuring that it MUST be right to immediately play back the same suit DECLARER is playing. Just how clueless ARE these disgusting GIBBO robots?

https://www.bridgeba...D7%7Cpc%7CDQ%7C

[benellis58]

The C.R.E.T.I.N.O.U.S. clowns known as GIBBO robots earn themselves another complete zero for their massive, overflowing lifetime collection by perpetrating another laughably inept "defence".

The MOST laughable part of this travesty of a "defence" is that in my contract of 3NT, I scored FOUR diamond tricks. I scored ALL FOUR of my diamonds. East-West never scored even a single diamond trick on the hand even though (and I hope you're sitting down!):

My diamonds in the South were AQ108, and West, sitting BEHIND (!) me, had K97632! The KING of diamonds was BEHIND my ace, diamonds were played FOUR times, yet West NEVER won a diamond trick, while I won FOUR.

Reminds me of a song by Little Peggy March roughly 63 years ago. It was called "The Impossible Happened"! But, Peggy, your song was 6 decades ago, and as the saying goes, "That was then, this is now". Back THEN the execrable GIBBO robots did not exist, but here in 2026, they DO...so "the impossible" happens a LOT more than it did when Peggy was topping the charts!

https://www.bridgeba...S2%7Cpc%7CD3%7C

[benellis58]

We scored 92.65 % for "only" going down one in 3H.

Of COURSE, I received much appreciated assistance from BOTH West and East. After I played a club at trick five, hoping to set up a pitch for my losing diamond, the imbecile sitting East won his ace and...of COURSE immediately returned a club. The imbecile sitting West won his king and...of COURSE immediately played a third round of clubs. Bye-bye, diamond loser! Neither of these fleabrained numbskulls ever had the wit to play a diamond.

GIB/GIBBO robots stink at bridge.

https://www.bridgeba...CC8%7Cmc%7C8%7C

[benellis58]

I commented not long ago on a similar North 1NT bid. I will make the same point here: Although many (perhaps most?) humans might also bid 1NT, I consider it a poor choice. North has 10-third in each major. It is probably better for his partner to be declarer. Thus, I think he should respond 1D, not 1NT.

Over his 1NT, I "ran" to 2C, mainly because I was well aware that my "partner" was one of the worst "bridge players" of all time. East-West floundered (fish that they are, ha, ha!) into 2S by West. As expected, West declared the hand poorly, and was lucky to go down "only" one, for which North-South scored 78.57 % and East-West 21.43 %.

https://www.bridgeba...HJ%7Cpc%7CS4%7C

[benellis58]

West wins his club jack at trick two. At trick three, the INDESCRIBABLY stupid GIBBO robot plays his 7 of CLUBS. Not ONLY is this derelict returning the suit DECLARER played (something TOTALLY illogical that these complete rejects perversely and inexplicably LOVE to do), but he is doing it looking at THAT dummy!

If I lived for a thousand years, I would still not have NEARLY enough time to fully document how truly worthless these GIBBO pieces of trash are.

https://www.bridgeba...DA%7Cpc%7CS4%7C

[benellis58]

It's important to point out that even though there are currently over 1200 posts in this thread, they represent merely a TINY fraction of the hands that could be reported if I or anyone else had sufficient time and desire to do so.

Of course, other Forum commentators have also written countless posts in various threads exposing some of the utter nonsense that they have witnessed from the contemptible GIB and GIBBO robots.

The GIBBO robots are so phenomenally bad that they make at least one error or poor decision on the vast majority of hands they play. In many cases they make multiple errors on a single hand.

If we add all the hands where the worthlessness of their hopeless, antiquated system is exposed...AND all the poorly written, incomplete, and just plain incorrect GIB definitions that repeatedly crop up, I would not be surprised if we could critique every hand these clueless monstrosities are involved in.

The GIBBO robots are not just worthless garbage - they are also a humiliation for bridge. If they are unable to be hugely improved, they should be scrapped and replaced by decent robots that at least have some clue about how to play bridge. The current robots are beneath contempt, and have been for a long time. They are the pits.

[benellis58]

For Lord knows what reason, the ignorant GIBBO robot in the West leads the 9 of hearts from 97 doubleton.

Actually, I retract that statement. The reason IS known and is quite obvious: The fool makes that lead simply because he is a GIBBO robot, meaning he is one of the worst and least logical opening leaders of all time. In fairness, though, as bad as the repulsive GIBBO robots are on opening leads (and they are very, VERY bad!), it must be admitted that they are not AS bad as their immediate predecessors (the GIB robots), who were even worse. I guess we could say that although the GIBBO robots are garbage, they are at least slightly improved garbage.

At trick five, the buffoon allows me to sneak the spade 9 past his sleepy, incompetent eyes. Because he is a total *****, I am am able to take 7 tricks and make my contract for a good score. Had Rip Van Winkle had the tiny modicum of intelligence required to win my 9 with his jack, EW would have taken EIGHT tricks to beat me two.

Fortunately, I was well aware (as always!) that I was playing against two absolute M.O.R.O.N.S. who have no idea how to play bridge intelligently, so it was easy to see that playing for a defensive error was my best bet.

Although the fact that the GIBBO robots are useless garbage often makes it easy to play against them, I would far prefer it (as I suspect most BBO users and customers would) if the robots were competent. That would lead to a more enjoyable experience than the current one, where we are pretty much aware that whenever we enter a game with three robots we will be "partnered" by a piece of trash and we will be opposing two other pieces of trash.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yc46j3cz

[benellis58]

The *****ous GIBBO robots sitting East-West barrel into a hopeless 3NT. They are notoriously bad bidders, so that's no surprise. In this case, they do it via their ineptitude at handling their own poorly structured inverted minor system. You might recall the TV series "Naked City", which had a tag line of "There are 8 million stories in the naked city". The question is: Are there also 8 million reasons that the disgustingly execrable GIBBO robots consistently rot at so many facets of bridge?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p8k7hex

[benellis58]

On THIS auction, the ALWAYS stupid GIBBO robot leads the NINE (!!!!!) of diamonds from KQ9854!

If this happened to be a hand from a work of fiction, critics would pounce on the author. They would, quite reasonably and justifiably, say "NO ONE would be STUPID enough to lead the nine - NO ONE!"

Then again, if the critics had seen GIBBO robots in action, perhaps they would not pounce - but they would IMMEDIATELY say, "Aha! So it's now been revealed that West is in fact a GIBBO robot. The author should not have been so quick to give away that information with such an obvious clue. The suspense has now been removed."

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/3cr94pu7

[benellis58]

At trick eight, West "earns" himself another complete zero for his massive, overwhelming lifetime collection. He does so by failing to unblock his club king, thereby endplaying himself. NO surprise at ALL.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p9f7dfp

[benellis58]

And SPEAKING of failing to unblock, on THIS hand, the GIBBO robot in the East foggily plays his FOUR of clubs - INSTEAD of his ten - from K104 at trick one. Slow-witted as he is, he probably never even realizes that this costs his side a trick, as the club suit is BLOCKED at trick five, and declarer claims TEN tricks. East-West get their usual miserable score, and because they are such hopelessly incompetent chowderheads, they probably don't even know why and will probably continue to butcher future "defences" in the same way. They absolutely stink at bridge.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yckmvya5