[benellis58]

There are undoubtedly numerous reasons why the GIB robots are so laughably and disgustingly bad at bridge. Included in their immense catalogue of ignorance is that they seem to give no consideration to vulnerability.

In the hand below, West, North, and East are all GIB robots.

North passes at his first opportunity (as dealer). North passes again at his second opportunity, when he certainly MIGHT have made a call. But then at his THIRD opportunity, and now for no apparent reason (especially considering his pass on the previous round) he voluntarily bids 3C.

He survives this, as East, his LHO, competes with 3S (which is exactly what he would have bid even if North had passed for a THIRD time), passed around to North, who NOW bids FOUR clubs...at UNFAVOURABLE vulnerability...opposite a partner who has shown length and values in his VOID...in a hand that therefore might well be (and in fact actually is) a misfit...and with a hand that he PASSED at his first two opportunities (INCLUDING his second opportunity, where it would have been cheap and easy to make a negative double showing both minors).

He did all this to "sacrifice"...RED AGAINST WHITE...at the FOUR level...against a PARTIAL...a partial of 3S that in practice would not even have made.

Competing for part scores can be wise. Taking PROFITABLE sacrifices (not PHANTOM ones) can be wise. For the reasons described above, what the GIB robot did on this hand was NOT wise.

Colour me COMPLETELY unsurprised.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/54vdfpj4

[benellis58]

West, North, and East are all GIB robots. Just to BEGIN with, the GIB robot "defending" in the East seat fails to overtake his partner's opening lead of the spade 10. Other errors follow.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2y6yksfe

[benellis58]

Check out the typically pathetic GIB definitions:

GIB feels it's ESSENTIAL to begin its definition of 1C by stating that it's a "minor suit opening". GIB's hopeless definitions often neglect to include IMPORTANT information, yet they put in useless, insulting garbage like this.

The definition of 4H is not very informative, but again includes a totally NEEDLESS statement that 4H is a "cue bid".

The definition of double is vague and useless.

The definition of 4NT merely repeats the information provided for South's 1C opening and says NOTHING useful about what 4NT MEANS.

If South had redoubled instead of bidding 4NT, the definition would AGAIN have merely repeated the information given with his 1C opening, and would have stated that the redouble was forcing to 4NT.

If South had bid 4S instead of 4NT, it at least would have given some information ("6+ clubs, rebiddable spades") but WHY would the call necessarily have required at least 6 clubs and REBIDDABLE spades?

Maybe it's time to throw all GIB definitions into a garbage can and start over.

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

[benellis58]

Probably not the wisest double by the GIB robots sitting EW. Probably not the wisest lead by the GIB robots sitting EW.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/5n6nwaxu

[benellis58]

Typically, the incompetent GIB robots sitting EW and "defending" against South's 3NT BOTH guard the SAME suit (diamonds) and BOTH unguard the SAME suit (spades). Furthermore, since they are GIB robots, it's the WRONG suit that they BOTH unguard, so the human declarer in the South scores trick 13 with his jack of spades, after West pitched the king and East pitched the ace. A conspiracy of dunces, as John Kennedy Toole might have called it.

As the cliché goes, "You can't make this stuff up". Furthermore, thanks to the utter incompetence of the GIB "defenders", you don't HAVE to make it up, because they are breathtakingly bad.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2mf28j35

[benellis58]

The GIB robot sitting West produces one of his favourite "defensive" tactics: He pops his heart king for no particular reason, which results in crashing his "partner's" stiff ace. As long as South would have DUCKED in dummy, assuming the GIB robot sitting West actually CORRECTLY withheld his king, West's typically panicked and boneheaded move would not cost...THIS time, but it was still a typically bad move by the GIB robot. NO surprise AT ALL! We're only surprised when the GIB robots defend properly.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/4eme2sfx

[benellis58]

West, North, and East are all GIB robots. The GIB robot sitting West makes a moronic bid of 3NT and "earns" a well-deserved ZERO percent for his partnership. It's never a surprise when a GIB robot makes a completely stupid bid, but why the HELL would EVEN a GIB robot bid 3NT at the point this idiot did?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/4dx2p6ek

[benellis58]

The story here is GIB's hopeless system and pathetic definitions.

Note the vague, useless definition of West's redouble: "5+ spades, 17- HCP, 13-19 total points, forcing". A waste of a call that could be put to far better use but that, thanks to the hopeless GIB system, succeeds in telling his "partner" nothing particularly new or useful.

Note also that East's 3H is defined as "Mixed raise, 4+ spades, 7-9 total points, forcing", yet his subsequent 3S call is defined as "4+ spades, 9 total points". Since he HAD to bid following his partner's useless, uninformative redouble of South's double of 3H, and since 3S was the CHEAPEST call he could POSSIBLY make at that point, why on EARTH would his hand which was previously described as "7-9 total points" now suddenly and magically be the absolute TOP of that range, defined NOW as "9 total points". Typically inconsistent and illogical GIB definitions - the type of garbage I sadly EXPECT from GIB.

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

[benellis58]

West, North, and East are all GIB robots. It was obviously MUCH too difficult for the braindead GIB robot sitting East to simply continue diamonds at trick two, perhaps because GIB robots HATE to return partner's suit. They are not just lousy players - they are also lousy PARTNERS.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/ms4hrxmh

[benellis58]

Here's another of the endless examples of how hopeless the GIB system is and how useless the GIB definitions are.

To begin - MERELY to begin (!) the absolute lunacy, THIS was the definition of South's 1NT opener: "notrump opener. Could have 5M. - 2-5 clubs, 2-5 diamonds, 2-5 hearts, 2-5 spades; 15-". Talk about a pathetic and LAZY definition!

First, is it REALLY necessary to begin the definition of a 1NT opening bid by saying "notrump opener"???!!!

Second, is it REALLY necessary to state "Could have 5M" when the definition later specifically states "2-5 hearts" and "2-5 spades"???!!! Talk about unnecessary repetition!

Third, notice that the final part of this classically DISMAL and supremely SLOPPY definition does NOT say "15-17 HCP" - it says "15-"!!! I can only assume that whoever wrote this masterpiece of incompetence simply FORGOT to complete the definition by adding the completing words "17 HCP" and was then too LAZY and CARELESS to proofread what he had written.

The humour continues later, because...

Had South doubled East's bid of 3C, THIS would have been the definition: "2-5 clubs, 2-5 diamonds, 2-5 hearts, 2-5 spades, 15-17 HCP, 18- total points". First, it says NOTHING new (apart from actually completing the "15-" by correctly stating "15-17 HCP", which would NOT be new were it not for the lazy, careless, incompetent definition of 1NT in the first place). Then the definition for a double of 3C adds - for absolutely NO reason "18- total points". "Total" points? Where? Why? NS have established no fit!

So if South had doubled 3C, it would have shown NOTHING that his opening bid of 1NT had not ALREADY shown...AND no one would know WHAT the double was, because it ridiculously fails to say that KEY, ESSENTIAL piece of information. Would the double be penalty in the GIB system? Would the double be takeout in the GIB system? Would the double have some OTHER specific meaning in the GIB system? No one KNOWS, because the HOPELESS and USELESS GIB definition of the double does not say! It does not say the single most IMPORTANT thing that it NEEDS to say. GIB definitions don't even BOTHER to include ESSENTIAL information, yet they waste time, space, and energy by including needless DRIVEL such as defining a 1NT opening bid as "notrump opener". Sadly, GIB definitions are often absolute garbage, as this hand clearly illustrates.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/4ht82cue

[benellis58]

Utterly ridiculous leap to 4S by the incompetent GIB robot sitting West. Just one MORE indication of what rotten bidders the GIB robots are. The hopeless GIB system obviously RECOMMENDS leaping to 4S if West has at least 9 HCP, as the typically wretched GIB definition indicates.

And let's look at that hopeless definition of 4S: "2+ spades, 9+ HCP, 9- total points". Absurd! To begin with, "total" points can be equal to or greater than HCP, but they CANNOT be less...yet this pathetic definition states that the bid shows at LEAST 9 HCP...and possibly many more, since no upper limit is stated, yet it...at the same time shows at MOST 9 "total" points and possibly fewer. Completely BACKWARDS, and a nice illustration of how monumentally illogical the GIB definitions can be. Ineptitude personified.

Then: LOOK at West's hand! According to the GIB definition, West is showing "9+ HCP"...yet he has only SEVEN HCP. GIB robots can't THINK and apparently they can't ADD either.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/t43vykdc

[benellis58]

Utterly ridiculous leap to 4S by the incompetent GIB robot sitting West. Just one MORE indication of what rotten bidders the GIB robots are. The hopeless GIB system obviously RECOMMENDS leaping to 4S if West has at least 9 HCP, as the typically wretched GIB definition indicates.

And let's look at that hopeless definition of 4S: "2+ spades, 9+ HCP, 9- total points". Absurd! To begin with, "total" points can be equal to or greater than HCP, but they CANNOT be less...yet this pathetic definition states that the bid shows at LEAST 9 HCP...and possibly many more, since no upper limit is stated, yet it...at the same time shows at MOST 9 "total" points and possibly fewer. Completely BACKWARDS, and a nice illustration of how monumentally illogical the GIB definitions can be. Ineptitude personified.

Then: LOOK at West's hand! According to the GIB definition, West is showing "9+ HCP"...yet he has only SEVEN HCP. GIB robots can't THINK and apparently they can't ADD either.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/t43vykdc

[benellis58]

Utterly ridiculous leap to 4S by the GIB robot sitting West. Also a typically pathetic GIB definition of 4S. Total points can be greater than or equal to HCP, but they cannot be less...yet the definition states the reverse, getting things BACKWARDS. Also, the definition says that 4S shows "9+ HCP", but West has only SEVEN HCP. The GIB robots cannot THINK, and apparently they cannot ADD either.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/t43vykdc

[benellis58]

West, North, and East are all GIB robots.

Had South doubled East's 3H, it would have been USELESSLY defined as "3-5 clubs, 3-5 diamonds, 2-5 hearts, 4-5 spades, 17 HCP, 18 total points". Note that the outstandingly pathetic definition FAILS to identify the MAIN point of interest, namely whether the double is penalty, takeout, or WHATEVER in the GIB system. If the doubler has FIVE (!) hearts, which according to the definition he CAN, then it would seem that the double would be for penalty...yet the definition ALSO states that he could have only TWO hearts, in which case it would almost certainly be for takeout. The TOTALLY USELESS definition gives NO indication of what type of double it is!

Next, look at the definition of West's 4H, which promises "10+ HCP". West actually has only 9 HCP. If he chooses to bid 4H, that's his prerogative I suppose, but in that case the definition is not being HONEST.

Similarly, the definition of North's double STUPIDLY says "8 HCP, 9 total points". Why on EARTH would North need to have EXACTLY 8 HCP to double, and how would "total" points even be relevant? Then, comically, DESPITE the ludicrous restraints of the definition, we see that in practice North actually has only SIX HCP, a full two points fewer than the total ridiculously "promised" by the ludicrous definition.

As is SO often the case, the GIB definitions are garbage.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p93pa5h