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Robots should return leader's suit

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Posted 2010-December-27, 13:23

It happened again. I stayed out of a NT game that should go down, and the bots let all the declarers who bid it make, because they didn't continue the suit when the opening lead was in their 5-card suit and declarer ducked. Here's a typical one:

http://tinyurl.com/27oe9xv

I was in the slam, which I think is better than 50%, going down 1 because I'm not a rabbi. On a lead, 3NT should also go down when declarer fails to drop the stiff K, as long as East continues when declarer ducks. But instead, it switches to . This happened at 3 of the 4 tables where 3NT was bid (the 4th had a very different auction, and West decided to make a passive lead).

I think this is another fault of its use of double dummy analysis. GIB presumably figured out that that if declarer only has A, it must have QJ for its opening bid. And since it expects declarer to play double dummy, it knows its K will be dropped.

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