[bb7133]

I have owned GIB since it was first offered and I have played
> countless hours w it and on BBO.
>
> It seems to me that the BBO robots are not as strong as my software
> robots.
>
> my strength is 95 are you able to comment on this setting versus
> where you think thinking and speed are best on the strength setting?
>
> Where are the robots set on strength?
>
> On defense neither robot (s) seem to offer reliable defensive signals
> why is this so I cannot rely on either count or attitude on defense?
>
> Thank you for helping me obtain the max value from my GIB experience
>

[steve2005]

BBO has 2 strengths of robots Basic and Advanced
The advanced robot looks at many more hands before deciding an action and is much stronger.
Ive never seen the stand alone GIB, but I would suspect it would be capable of looking at more hands than the Basic robot so would be better then those.

[iandayre]

Not sure what scale you are referring to when you say "my strength is 95".

I can tell you that GIB's advanced robots are playing at the highest level they are capable of playing. There is no range of robot abilities available. They are NOT programmed to give defensive signals. Fortunately most GIB tournaments are "human best hand" so our side is declarer the majority of the time.

[1eyedjack]

steve2005, on 2015-December-10, 15:48, said:

BBO has 2 strengths of robots Basic and Advanced

I think that in the main club there are considerably more than 2 strengths, particularly if playing via the windows downloaded client.

http://www.bridgebas...post__p__756610

And with some of the scenarios you can vary the robot's thinking time, which expands the permutations to virtually infinite.