[benellis58]

As Jon and Robin and the In Crowd sang almost 60 years ago, "Do it again just a little bit slower" - ANOTHER roach of a GIBBO "defence".

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yckw8rvp

[benellis58]

North's 4D is defined by GIB as "Cue bid - 1+ club; 5+ hearts; 4+ spades; 21- HCP; no ace of clubs; ace of diamonds; 16-22 total points".

So he has the ace of diamonds. That can't be bad. Except, uh,... this is his hand: A753, KQ983, KQJ4, VOID.

Golly gee, it seems he DOESN'T have the ace of diamonds after all.

Furthermore, where's that "1+ club" that his own GIB definition promised? Looks like he actually has NO clubs.

Pathetic as always. These GIBBO misfits can't even get SIMPLE things right. Please throw them all into a trash compactor.

Meanwhile, look at the truly imbecilic lead: a heart INTO declarer, who OPENED 1H,

Isn't BBO embarrassed that its robots are so hopeless?

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

[benellis58]

Superstooge in the East fails to beat the contract. The lamebrained fool fails to play a diamond either before OR after cashing the club ace. GIBBO robots: perennial losers, dumb as rocks, worst of the worst, lowest of the low.

https://www.bridgeba...C7%7Cmc%7C10%7C

[benellis58]

True to form, the GIBBO dimwit in the West leads the spade 10 from his 105 doubleton, rather than the diamond queen.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/3p5xf7sp

[benellis58]

Valued contributor OMARHEUM has sent a classic this time. It will be the subject not only of this post, but also of the one immediately following. Each will provide a sterling examples of the "defensive" - ahem - "abilities" (ha, ha, ha) of the laugh-inducing (and nausea-inducing) GIBBO robots.

OMAR writes "96 % for making 7 as West drops the king of clubs to keep the 9, thereby allowing my anemic club suit to run for five (!) tricks."

"Anemic" indeed! An excellent and highly appropriate adjective, since OMAR's clubs were Q6532 in his hand opposite stiff ace in his partner's dummy, but against robot "defenders" Johnny Halfwit in the West and Donald J. Dumbo in the East, OMAR had no trouble winning five club tricks and losing none. But I bet Johnny H. later bragged to all his GIBBO brothers and sisters about his BRILLIANT "unblocking" play. Sadly, since all GIBBO robots share the same "intelligence" level as Mr. Halfwit, none will realize that his "unblock" was the act of a BLOCKhead. (I'll see myself out!)

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

[benellis58]

This is the same hand discussed in post #1785 immediately above. Different table, different result, but similarly mind-blowing stupidity by the always repulsive GIBBO robot "defenders".

OMAR writes "My result occurred 6 times. 61 times 3NT made +430. One table reached 6 NT making, with the club suit (and particularly the king of clubs, again playing a prominent role."

OMAR is correct, as usual. I will add that the anonymous human South declaring 6NT here here was clearly operating, which is often a good strategy when playing with and against the incomparably braindead pond scum known as GIBBO robots. The human's operation succeeded magnificently, and it was actually a double operation (his 1NT opener and his 2D response to Stayman).

We see not only the horrendous EW "defence" that OMAR has exposed, but also some typically imbecilic bidding by the overambitious but hugely untalented GIBBO simpleton in the North. Just LOOK at the fool's ludicrous LEAP (!) to 6D, which (sigh!) does not even match his own GIB definition.

GIBBO robots are the worst of the worst and the lowest of they low, a blemish on the face of bridge, and an embarrassment to this otherwise excellent BBO website. It is long past the time to relegate these GIBBO monstrosities to either a landfill or the bottom of the ocean and to replace them with DECENT robots.

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

[benellis58]

It appears that the GIBBO robots that plague BBO never heard of re-opening doubles. GIBBO robots are the pits - the absolute worst, beneath contempt. Does BBO not care that such a key component of its site is so deeply and irrevocably flawed? Is BBO not aware that better robots would make BBO a far superior site?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/yckt5xuc

[benellis58]

The ignorant GIBBO piece of trash in the North feels that he MUST...JUMP to FOUR spades over "partner's" THREE hearts. Note, BTW, how awesomely and entirely useless the GIB definition of 4S is. No surprise at all with either the ridiculous 4S bid or the worthless definition, because we have come to expect nothing but garbage from GIBBO and GIB. As that old ungrammatical quote goes, "Pigs is pigs".

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2b3urrhc

[benellis58]

GIB definitions are always worth a laugh. Why? Because stupidity is often funny.

GIB claims that West's first call, 3C, shows "4-9 total points". TOTAL points, mind you - not even HIGH-CARD points. So the HCP could even be LOWER than "4-9", because although GIB is too ignorant to realize it, HCP can be equal to or less than "total" points, but they CANNOT be greater.

But in reference to West's second call, his double of 3D, GIB now claims that West has "9+ HCP". THIS time, HCP ARE mentioned, and we're informed that West has at LEAST 9 of them, and possibly as many as 37. What happened since his first call? Did he sneak in some extra points from another deck?

Note, by the way, that despite the gross inconsistency between the two pathetic GIB definitions, West does NOT have "9+ HCP" - he has a mere SIX, a full THREE fewer than the MINIMUM "promised" by the worthless GIB definition.

Note also that the definition of the double confirms for the Nth time that GIB knows nothing, absolutely NOTHING about "total" points.

Why must BBO players, members, and customers always be subjected to these useless GIBBO robots and pathetic GIB definitions?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/mr2dtdtb

[benellis58]

The *****ous GIBBO numbskull in the East wins the club lead and then...shifts (!!!) to the 10 of...DIAMONDS!

I've asked this question a few times before, but seriously: How many times WERE these imbecilic GIBBO pieces of dirt dropped on their heads during infancy?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/5n6n2x95

[benellis58]

I've previously stated that I play a very different game when I have three GIBBO robots at the table than when I play "real" bridge with and against humans. That is because I respect human players, and I play with and against good human players - whereas in a game with three GIBBO robots, I know going in that my "partner" is guaranteed to be one of the worst, stupidest, and most disgusting "bridge players" of all time, and that my opponents will share those same nauseating characteristics.

One of the many ways I play differently against GIBBO pond scum than against humans is that I operate far, far more frequently. This works out more often than not, or else I would obviously stop doing it, but for sure it doesn't always work out. Here is a hand where it didn't.

With 18 HCP, I have a clearcut 1D opener, with the likelihood of subsequently bidding 2NT...but it was "operation time", so I opened 1NT. Pard bid 2D, transferring to hearts, and I bid 2H. Then in passout seat, enemy East, silent until then, balanced with 2S. With my EXTRA HCP (since I had one more than my announced MAXIMUM) and my double spade stopper, I bid an undisciplined 2NT. The GIB definition of this was typically pathetic and M.O.R.O.N.I.C. (two GIB specialties):

Invitational to 3NT game". First, GIB begins with this tremendously annoying, useless, and insulting statement "advising" BBO users that 3NT is "game". We KNOW that! Please stop putting this utter GARBAGE in the stinking GIB definitions! But more importantly, consider how illogical and ridiculous it is to say that 2NT is inviting 3NT. Granted, my call is indeed undisciplined and bizarre, but why on Earth would I be inviting game, having A. Opened 1NT, telling partner what I have, and B. Having...MERELY bid a CLEARLY PASSABLE 2H in response to pard'S 2D transfer? I've seen pencil sharpeners with more brainpower than GIB!

Over my undisciplined, bizarre 2NT call, West competes with 3S, and the dumb OX sitting across from me VOLUNTEERS (!) 4H, defined as "6+ hearts. 7-8 total points". East persists with 4S, and I think to myself. "I'm glad that my RHO pulled to 4S, and it looks like my double operation (the 1NT opener and the 2NT intervention) have worked out well, because I have a lot of defence, and the stooge sitting across from me also has values, as shown by his VOLUNTARY 4H call and the accompanying definition".

I happily double 4S and make what appears to be the normal lead (on this auction) of the heart king. As soon as I see dummy, I say, "This will NOT be good". Sure enough, my score is a GIBBO favourite: a complete zero, although they have about two thousand huge warehouses stocked ceiling to floor with THEIR massive collection of them, while I don't even have a full drawer of them.

Had I led a club or diamond, I would have beaten the contract, but c'est la vie. This thread is never about bashing myself or any other human, though - it's ALWAYS about bashing the contemptible GIBBO robots, so let's do that now.

North's hand was 6, 98743, J65, Q1085, and with THAT dogmeat, the ignorant swine VOLUNTARILY (!) bid 4H over West's 3S. Note that he did NOT have the "6+ hearts" promised by his own GIBBO definition: He had ONLY five, the MINIMUM he could have, considering that he had earlier transferred with 2D. So that covers "quantity"...and as for "quality", his "suit" was NINE-high! He did NOT have the promised "7-8 total points" - he had a MERE three (!) HCP, comprised of...a lowly JACK and QUEEN, and he had NO reason to add even a SINGLE distribution point, since we had NOT identified any REAL fit.

I'll continue to operate, because it's clear that with a dirtbag GIBBO robot for a "partner", giving him accurate information is a total waste anyway.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2aphc6nn

[benellis58]

Here's the flip side of the coin. This time the operation worked, and it was EW who got the complete zero.

Note that when West made his takeout double of 2H, in direct (NOT passout) position, he had ALREADY previously entered the auction...over a STRONG 1NT...red against white...and had heard his LHO voluntarily (!) bid (2D, transfer to hearts)...and had heard his partner East stay completely silent.

It appears that GIBBO never heard the expression "Discretion is the better part of valour".

https://www.bridgeba...CD9%7Cmc%7C9%7C

[benellis58]

Yeah, I bid one DIAMOND (there's some of that operating again!), but, you know, maybe against a SLAM (!) the GIBBO robot sitting East should have led a high diamond anyway!

https://www.bridgeba...S2%7Cmc%7C13%7C

[benellis58]

Hopeless "defence" as usual. Why is East shifting at trick two...apart from the fact that he's a braindead GIBBO robot?

https://www.bridgeba...DT%7Cpc%7CD8%7C

[benellis58]

West proves that like many (all?) GIBBO robots, he is a gutless, craven coward as well as an imbecile. At trick four, TERRIFIED that he will NEVER score his diamond queen unless he takes it right NOW, the harebrained bozo pops it...only to then play...another DIAMOND!

No, you CAN'T make this stuff up. The GIBBO robots rot! They are THE worst!

https://www.bridgeba...C2%7Cpc%7CC9%7C

[benellis58]

Stupid lead. No surprise.

https://www.bridgeba...D7%7Cmc%7C12%7C

[benellis58]

OMARHEUM has sent two more hands. Here is the first. He writes "Here is a 98% score from a Just Declare game. The most common result was down three, but I was down only one, largely thanks to East, who clutched those clubs, allowing me to establish my diamond suit."

My comments:

This is a very complex hand, with many possibilities for both declarer and "defenders", and with the actions chosen by one side potentially affecting the subsequent actions chosen by the other. Consequently, as I do not have unlimited time (as evidenced by the fact that I only post a tiny, TINY percentage of the countless unending robot atrocities I witness), I have not thoroughly examined all possible directions this hand could take. It seems to me, however, that OMAR played the hand well and that the GIBBO robots - as always expected - defended miserably.

For starters, if West chooses to lead a heart, he should table the 3 (his fourth best, which is what the robot system calls for) rather than potentially WASTING his jack at trick one. Later in the hand, it is silly for East to pitch diamonds when he KNOWS that he has equal length in the suit with declarer South. Clearly, as OMAR noted, East's "clutching" his clubs at the expense of his far more crucial diamonds was the mark of a "bridge player" who should take up needlepoint, gardening, or croquet instead and never pick up another playing card in his hideous, wasted life!

However, West also could have done better, and not just by choosing a wiser lead at trick one, because:

West, at trick eight, ruffed South's ace with the spade 8, which was the last spade (trump) remaining in the game. Thus, West was on lead at trick nine, East-West having taken a total of two tricks by then (East's heart ace at trick one, and West's spade 8 just now at trick eight). The slam was already, therefore, down one...and West at that point could and should have beaten it another trick for down two. However, being a clueless GIBBO robot (as they all are), he FAILED to find the right play and OMAR took the rest of the tricks.

West was down to the 107 of hearts and the K103 of clubs. He chose to lead his club king, basically surrendering, as OMAR could now claim, thanks to Johnny Halfwit in the East having stupidly pitched all his diamonds except the jack. OMAR won dummy's club ace and cashed dummy's heart king (a trick he didn't even require at that point, as he pitched a winning diamond on it). He then played a club to his queen, cashed his diamond king felling East's now s0litary jack, and then took trick 13 quite appropriately with the 13th diamond. (Aah, symmetry!)

It would not have helped West to exit with either the 10 or 3 of clubs instead of the king. OMAR would merely have played small from dummy (either the jack or 7 - it was irrelevant), won the queen in his hand, cashed the diamond king felling East's lone jack, then cashed his 10 and 9 of diamonds, and finally at trick 13 played his last club, the 9, to dummy's ace.

To beat the slam TWO tricks, West (Donald J. Dumbo) had to lead a HEART (not a club) at trick nine. The cowardly simpleton was probably TERRIFIED to do that, since his remaining hearts were 107 and dummy's were K9. If he led a heart (EITHER one) dummy could score two heart winners. If West led the 10, dummy's king would win it and then dummy's remaining 9 would scoop up West's remaining 7. And if West instead led the 7, OMAR could call for dummy's 9, which would win, and then cash dummy's remaining king, capturing West's remaining 10.

That previous paragraph serves to show why my comment very early in this post was a salient one. That early comment (in the third or fourth paragraph) was "For starters, if West chooses to lead a heart, he should table the 3 (his fourth best, which is what the robot system calls for) rather than potentially WASTING his jack at trick one." Had Donald J. Dumbo done that, his remaining hearts at trick nine would have been the mighty J10 rather than the tenaced 107, and he would not have felt his foolish and COWARDLY urge to avoid giving dummy two heart tricks. BUT...

The braindead (aren't they all?) GIBBO robot should have led a heart anyway (even after his stupid, wasteful original lead of the jack). Yes, dummy could INDEED have taken two heart tricks...but so what? After taking those two "free" heart tricks, dummy's remaining three cards would be the AJ7 of clubs, and declarer South would have NO IMMEDIATE WAY TO GET TO HIS HAND. West would HAVE to score one of the final three tricks, thereby beating the slam TWO tricks instead of the "mere" ONE that they DID beat it.

Conclusion: As we would ALWAYS expect, BOTH these incompetent GIBBO pieces of dirt blew the "defence" - Donald J. Dumbo by stupidly WASTING his heart JACK on opening lead, and - even worse, MUCH worse - by ignorantly and cravenly playing a club rather than a heart at trick nine...and Johnny Halfwit by ridiculously "clutching" his clubs instead of holding on to his diamonds. GIBBO robots are the worst!

There are two links below. The first is to what happened at OMAR's table (which I have described here at great length) and the second is to what happened at the tables where declarer went down THREE (which I will refrain, for the sake of politenees, from commenting on).

https://www.bridgeba...CJ%7Cpc%7CC8%7C


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