[benellis58]

REMARKABLY stupid lead: the stiff 9 of spades. This would be dumb enough even out of context, but here he's leading a suit where dummy has shown five cards.

The "defence" that follows is as pathetic as the lead.

https://www.bridgeba...D9%7Cpc%7CC7%7C

[benellis58]

We scored 52.08 % for going down two in 4D. The STORY, though, is the GIB definition of 4D:

"4- clubs". That's NOT very helpful, GIB, especially since South bid four clubs right before North whipped out his 4D call! Does North have ZERO clubs...or does he have FOUR? You know, that just MIGHT make a difference (as anyone with a BRAIN could figure out).

"32- HCP". Well now, that REALLY narrows it down (chokes back laughter!). I mean, it's GREAT that we know he can't have 33, but could you be a TINY bit more specific than giving a point range of THIRTY-THREE? According to your USELESS joke of a statement, Mr. GIB, he COULD have...ZERO HCP, or he COULD have...THIRTY-TWO! You know, that disparity COULD make a difference in what the correct contract might be. (Okay, I cannot hold back the LAUGHTER any longer, because GIB definitions are the funniest things I have ever seen...in a very, VERY sick and twisted way!)

Twice rebiddable diamonds". Thanks. Good to know...but...uhh...HIS diamonds are KQ942 - certainly not BAD, but...uhh..."twice rebiddable"???

https://www.bridgeba...ST%7Cpc%7CS7%7C

[benellis58]

East wins his spade ace at trick two. Does he then play a CLUB, the suit his "partner" led? Of COURSE he doesn't. HE'S a GIBBO robot, so HE would rather throw himself into a trash compactor than EVER return his "partner's" suit. And just between you and me, I would be VERY happy if he DID throw himself into a trash compactor!

So what DOES he play to trick three? Easy, EASY question! He of COURSE plays...a second spade, because GIBBO robots LOVE to return DECLARER'S suit.

NS quickly take a total of 11 tricks. EW quickly score another complete ZERO to store in one of the many warehouses they rent for the SOLE purpose of housing their MASSIVE and ever-expanding collection of rock bottoms.

https://www.bridgeba...HJ%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

Auction MANDATED by GIBBO, complete with stunningly bad GIB definitions:

South opens 1S in 4th, which is reasonable, but the GIB definition is annoying and dishonest. (Shock of shocks - NOT!) Annoying, because of the useless, insulting words it starts with: "Major-suit opening". Why do SO many (TOO many!) GIB definitions start with complete garbage like this? Dishonest, because it promises "11-21 HCP". although the robots OBVIOUSLY open certain TEN-point hands, as they did HERE. Would it be too difficult for GIB to at least inject some HONESTY into its pathetic definitions?

South's artificial 2D is an invitation to game. Although it happened to succeed on THIS random hand (due to a typically foolish GIBBO lead!), it's obviously VERY aggressive, considering that HE has a TEN-count and his PARTNER is a PASSED hand! And BTW, it didn't succeed at all tables: At my table and 40 others, 4S made exactly 10 tricks, but at 19 other tables it only made 9 (for down one), and at 5 others it only made 8 (for down 2).

Next: Over South's artificial invitation of 2D, North accepts. Fair enough. But since he accepts, why on Earth does he not simply leap to FOUR spades (since South ONLY invited and there is obviously no slam)? His actual bid of THREE spades is stupidly (what else?) and wastefully defined as "forcing". It would be FAR better to use 3S as passing the buck back to South, saying "I'm not good enough to unilaterally leap to FOUR spades, but I'm TOO good to merely sign off in TWO spades, so YOU decide". But such a USEFUL application would clearly be ANATHEMA to GIBBO, which seems to LOVE playing unworkable, antiquated, redundant nonsense as the core of its hopeless system.

South's 4S is defined as showing "12+ HCP". News flash, GIB: He has (only!)...TEN. You know, maybe...just MAYBE...it's LONG past the time to rewrite your PATHETIC definitions.

West's cowardly and poorly judged club lead allows the game to make. It would have had no play on a more RATIONAL heart lead...but who in his right mind would EVER accuse the contemptible GIBBO robots of being rational?

https://www.bridgeba...H2%7Cmc%7C10%7C

[benellis58]

This is a MANDATED auction, so GIBBO obviously RECOMMENDS it and thinks it's IDEAL.

Of course, since it's MANDATED by GIBBO, it's actually as ridiculous and pathetic as you would expect. The 2H call is HIGHLY questionable, and the 4H call is INSANE.

The hand was played 84 times. At 6 tables, the ridiculous 4S contract went down two tricks. At 67 tables, including mine, it went down three. At 11 tables, it went down four.

You know, GIBBO, maybe if a hand was played EIGHTY-FOUR times and the BEST result (and at ONLY a paltry SIX of the 84) was DOWN TWO, then MAYBE it wasn't a very good contract...and MAYBE it was a RIDICULOUSLY bad auction! AND...MAYBE GIBBO hasn't got the foggiest notion of how to bid!

https://www.bridgeba...HK%7Cpc%7CHJ%7C

[benellis58]

In a DECENT system (meaning something other than the antiquated, poorly constructed, illogical, wasteful, redundant claptrap that GIBBO uses), North would be able to show his heart stopper and suggest 3NT if South has a diamond stopper. This, of course, is WAY too hard for GIBBO. GIBBO rots.

BTW, note the STUPID use that GIBBO has for East's (insane) double of 3D, as described by the GIB definition of it. Note also that East does not even adhere to his own (silly) GIB definition. Finally, notice that this ludicrous treatment, in combination with East's insane decision to double, propels West into making the suicidal lead of the diamond ace.

GIBBO sucks pumice. It rots. It stinks. It is a total embarrassment. It is a blemish on the face of bridge. It should LONG ago have been tossed into the garbage.

https://www.bridgeba...HK%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

I think North's NORMAL call on this hand would be 3S, not 2S.

West makes a typically STUPID lead: his stiff trump. These GIBBO robots have no clue at all about how to play bridge. Please destroy them. Please replace them with DECENT robots.

https://www.bridgeba...C9%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

What a REMARKABLE 2S call by South in this MANDATED GIBBO auction. GIBBO proves that it has NO IDEA of how to bid, considering that it RECOMMENDS this LUDICROUS 2S call. On top of EVERYTHING else, if this dimwitted GIBBO bidder (because I assure you: it was NOT me!) wanted to bid spades, he should have done it at the ONE level. GIBBO is so BLINDINGLY stupid that it couldn't BEAR to bid ONE spade...but had NO trouble whatsoever bidding TWO spades...red against white...on a FOUR-bagger...in a LIVE auction...in DIRECT, NON-passout seat...opposite a SILENT partner...and facing two opponents who had BOTH shown values.

East's double is the usual GIBBO type that is made for absolutely NO reason and says NOTHING useful.

GIBBO proves time and time and time again that it is nothing but trash and that it belongs in a landfill...preferably on the dark side of the moon.

https://www.bridgeba...S5%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

Another imbecilic lead by another disgustingly braindead GIBBO robot:

https://www.bridgeba...DK%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

And...ANOTHER. Why do these sickening GIBBO jackasses LOVE to lead ENEMY suit? Well, perhaps the answer is: BECAUSE they are sickening GIBBO jackasses.

Note also further proof of what a pathetic JOKE the useless, illogical, antiquated GIBBO bidding system is. Look at North's stupid 2S call, the stupid definition, and the fact that the ignorant, undisciplined M.O.R.O.N. - as is so often the case - didn't even "obey" his own (stinking) GIB definition of 2S. Note also that South's 3S is ridiculously defined as a cue bid. In summary, note that EVERYTHING about GIB/GIBBO absolutely and totally rots. Why does BBO still use these pathetic, dismal GIBBO robots? Why haven't they been replaced by DECENT ones?

https://www.bridgeba...D2%7Cpc%7CHK%7C

[benellis58]

Although it LUCKILY happened to work out well on this random hand, North's laughable 2S call is an example of one of the NUMEROUS stupid philosophies the nauseating, contemptible GIBBO robots espouse: These insufferable jerks feel that they MUST "rescue" "partner" just because they have shortness in his suit. My disdain for GIB/GIBBO grows each and every day.

https://www.bridgeba...DJ%7Cpc%7CSJ%7C

[benellis58]

Frequent contributor OMARHEUM has sent two more hands exposing the massive ignorance and monumental incompetence of the always sickening and repulsive pieces of trash known as GIBBO robots. Here is the first:

He writes "I scored 63 % here when West made a takeout double of spades completely unprepared for clubs."

My comments:

Not only does the GIBBO robot in the West bid worse than many raw beginners, and not only does he display to the world that he has NO idea of what a takeout double is, but he is also too overwhelmingly stupid and undisciplined to even follow his own GIB definition. It says that his (ludicrous) double shows "2- spades". He has FOUR. It says that he promises "3-5 clubs". He has NONE. It says that he has "3-4 hearts". He has FIVE.

Meanwhile, the TYPICALLY pathetic GIB definition of 5C is "5+ clubs; 11 HCP; 12 total points". WHY, pray tell, should this bid show EXACTLY eleven HCP? And WHY should it show EXACTLY twelve "total" points? Both statements are COMPLETELY logic-free (as one would perhaps EXPECT from a GIB definition!). Add in the fact that GIB has no understanding whatsoever of "total" points. And: note that East does NOT possess the MAGICAL eleven HCP that GIB has INSANELY decreed that he requires; he has "only" nine HCP. As for "total" points, he has MORE than the MAGICAL, exact twelve that the piece of trash GIB definition has ridiculously claimed his call shows; his hand evaluates to roughly FIFTEEN "total" points...or at least it WOULD opposite a "partner" who actually knows what a takeout double is!

GIB/GIBBO is about as worthwhile as the grime that sticks to the soles of your shoes when you wander through an uncleaned maple syrup factory overwhelmed by armies of ants.

https://www.bridgeba...CH6%7Cmc%7C9%7C

[benellis58]

Here is the second hand OMAR sent today. He writes "We are slated for 87-100 % defending 4H doubled, but 'partner' pulls it to 4S for which we get a lowly 17 % when we are doubled and go down two"

My comments:

Typical. GIBBO robots are EXPERTS at PULLING doubles at the WRONG time and LEAVING THEM IN at the WRONG time. These nincompoops would be a lot better off if they followed the George Costanza practice of always doing the OPPOSITE of what THEY think is "right"!

Now let's look at some of the always execrable GIB definitions:

1S begins (sigh!) with the offensive, unnecessary, useless, obvious, self-evident, annoying, insulting words "Major-suit opening". Please STOP it, GIB!

2S begins (sigh!) with the offensive, unnecessary, useless, obvious, self-evident, annoying, insulting words "Simple raise". Please STOP it, GIB! Additionally, it says that it shows "7-10 total points". Why SEVEN, GIB? WHY? What if he had "only" six?

East's balancing double of 2S is defined as showing "14-16 total points". WHY? It's a BALANCING double, GIB, so he does NOT need that many points. And if he indeed DID have that many points, then why the Hell didn't he previously double ONE spade? In fact, he might WELL have doubled ONE spade with his actual hand!

4H is defined as showing "5+ hearts". He has FOUR. And why IS he bidding 4H on his LOUSY suit of 10864 and his pancake flat 3-4-3-3 hand that has DEFENSIVE values and is opposite a "partner" who ONLY made a BALANCING double and was presumably NOT strong enough to double on the FIRST round of bidding?

The double of 4H is USELESSLY defined, as USUAL, as "2+ hearts; 3+ spades; 7-10 total points". Can't GIB definitions EVER provide USEFUL, NECESSARY information?

4S is defined as "6+ spades; 14+ HCP; 14- total points", confirming for the Nth time that GIB possesses ZERO understanding of "total" points. Sigh, here we go AGAIN: HCP can be less than or equal to "total" points, but they CANNOT be more. The reason is that "total" points are derived by BEGINNING with the actual number of HCP and then ADDING any justifiably applicable points for distribution. A simple concept, yet GIB implies the OPPOSITE when it says that the HCP are "14+", a typically vague and LAZY GIB statement that literally means 14 to 37, while at the SAME time it makes the (also vague and lazy) statement that the the "total" points are "14-", which literally means zero to 14.

Does the GIBBO sap in the North really think he can make FOUR spades? If so, why did he PASS TWO spades? And does he REALLY think that the opponents can make FOUR hearts...after they earlier stopped in three and after one opponent had merely BALANCED with a double and the other had never done anything except pass until FORCED to bid by his partner's BALANCING double?

BBO, please do EVERY BBO member, player, and paying customer a huge favour by getting RID of these abominable, hopeless, clueless GIBBO robots and replacing them with decent, competent ones. If you do that, BBO, you will simultaneously be doing YOURSELF an even bigger favour by regaining some of the trust and respect that you have lost because of these STAINS on your otherwise fine bridge site. Since many other bridge sites have sprung up as competition to BBO, I would think that you would want to have GOOD robots so that players will choose YOUR site over others. That is MUCH more likely to happen if you provide GOOD robots than if you saddle your members with these totally incompetent GIBBO monstrosities.

https://www.bridgeba...CC5%7Cmc%7C8%7C

[benellis58]

West has the AK10 of diamonds, his partner East has balanced with a 2D call, and West is on lead against South's 2S, so of COURSE he leads a...HEART. Do these GIBBO lunatics play that if "partner" bids a suit you are forever barred from leading it? Sure seems that way with these rejects!

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[benellis58]

Superstooge in the West wins his spade jack at trick two. At trick three he plays his 2 of...SPADES...because he figures it MUST be right to return the suit DECLARER just played. He scores zero on the board.

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[benellis58]

Only a "bridge player" as clueless, inconsistent, and illogical as a GIBBO robot would be stupid enough to bid like North did on this hand.

The witless jerk bid an invitational, PASSABLE 3C at his first call, and then at his second call (despite his partner staying SILENT after earlier opening 1S), this total I.D.I.O.T....JUMPED...to FOUR...SPADES (!)...at his next turn!

The game made and we scored 64.29 % on the board, but that's irrelevant. It would also have been irrelevant if we scored 100...OR if we scored ZERO. The point is the LAUGHABLE inconsistency.

If the imbecile initially thought his hand was ONLY worth an invitation - a PASSABLE invitation - in CLUBS, not SPADES (!), then how the HELL did the exact same hand SUDDENLY and MAGICALLY become worth a LEAP TO GAME IN SPADES on the next round?

Alternately, going back to square one, if the hand WAS worth bidding 4S opposite any random one spade opener (since that was the ONLY bid South EVER made on this hand!), then why on EARTH would North initially bid a PASSABLE 3C?

The STUPIDITY of these sickeningly awful GIBBO pieces of trash is mind-boggling! And, BTW, the entire GIBBO bidding system (including these WILDLY inefficient invitational jumps in a new suit over opener's bid) stinks. AND, 3C, with THAT North hand, was a stupid, STUPID bid even within the context of their JOKE of a system! GIBBO rots!

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

[benellis58]

Look at how these two GIBBO dweebs "defend".

West leads a heart - the suit where North is known to have at least five cards and South is known to have at least two.

South wins the heart in dummy and leads a club. East follows the philosophy of his immediate predecessors, the hopeless GIB robots, by playing second hand HIGH, an INSANE habit that Lorserker supposedly cured the robots of with his minor upgrade not too long ago.

So, from KJ2 tripleton, East pops his king (in second seat) at trick two. South...DUCKS. Why? Because he obviously does not know where all the cards are, but he DOES know that he wants to set up CLUBS, and he DOES know that the GIBBO robots are so astoundingly STUPID that they LOVE to return the suit DECLARER plays. Consequently, not suspecting that the IMBECILE on his right popped the club king from KJX, declarer takes the educated gamble of DUCKING the club, figuring that his UNBEARABLY stupid RHO will probably return the suit. The gamble pays off, because the absolute M.O.R.O.N. ...DOES (!) play a second club...the JACK yet!

Declarer waltzes home with 10 tricks and scores 100 % on the board, while the two TOTAL rejects sitting East-West add ANOTHER complete zero to their massive, overflowing collection.

These GIBBO pieces of dirt should score zero on EVERY hand, purely by default. They are by FAR the worst "bridge players" I have EVER encountered in my LONG life. They are inexcusably bad. I have played with hundreds of human players and against thousands (probably many TENS of thousands) of human players, and I have NEVER met even ONE who is even CLOSE to being as utterly hopeless as these disgusting GIBBO bozos.

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

[benellis58]

We scored 65.12 % on this board for doubling 4H and beating it one trick. Good result, right? We did well, right?

No. Wrong. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT WRONG...and we were EXTREMELY fortunate to score well on the board, considering that...we were...ICE COLD for...SEVEN clubs!

Note that the GIBBO robot in the North, a complete, absolute, total I.D.I.O.T., just like every single one of his stinking, useless, pathetic GIBBO brothers and sisters,...PASSED the TAKEOUT double of 4H even though he had SEVEN (!!!) clubs AND his partner South was KNOWN (based on the auction and on North's own heart holding) to have a BIG hand AND to be VOID in HEARTS!

I have often said that if we TRIED to create a worse robot than GIBBO we would have a difficult task. Perhaps I was being FAR too generous to GIBBO. Perhaps I SHOULD have said that if we TRIED to create a worse robot than GIBBO we would have an IMPOSSIBLE task.

https://www.bridgeba...C7%7Cpc%7CDK%7C