smerriman, on 2019-June-12, 19:07, said:
It would work far better; Italian cuebidding is *significantly* simpler logic wise for a robot to understand. The majority of issues with GIB's cuebidding is because it leaves itself with no possible bid; after 1♠ - 3♠ - 4♦ it will bid Blackwood with xx in clubs but extra strength simply because it doesn't know what else to do.
Yes, there is still plenty of complexity involved, but even the very basics in combination with Advanced GIB's ability to plan out the auctions would result in a huge improvement.
Get back to me when GIB can 100% successfully make a simple preference bid when holding a singleton or void in one suit and 4+ cards in the other suit.
Compared to cuebidding, this should be a cakewalk. Even better, get back to me when the GIB description of a competitive 4 or 5 level game bid doesn't show 25-30+ HCP. How hard can that be??? Answering my own question, apparently too hard to implement after ~20 years of GIB. Presumably I agree with you that it
should be simple, but clearly it is not. Wishing it were so doesn't make it so, no matter how hard you wish.