[benellis58]

Typically stupid overbid by a typically stupid, incompetent GIBBO robot. The fool leaps to 4S with a merely invitational hand. These witless GIBBO jerks frequently do similar things to this because they have no idea how to play bridge.

If 4S happens to make, it will be because South has a good hand and would have accepted an invitation, so North gains NOTHING from his imbecilic overbid, because the game would have been reached anyway.

If 4S happens NOT to make, South would probably NOT have accepted an invitation, so North LOSES because of his imbecilic overbid. GIBBO is the worst. GIBBO rots. GIBBO is an embarrassment to the game of bridge, and also to BBO, which is an otherwise fine bridge site unfortunately tarnished by these pitiful, hopeless GIBBO robots.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/zhj4cma3

[benellis58]

The only opening leaders that I have ever seen who were even worse than the hideous GIBBO robots were their immediate predecessors, the utterly clueless GIB robots.

On this hand, why is Donald J. Dumbo, the jackass in the East, leading a spade, DECLARER'S known second suit, INTO declarer? Why is he not leading a diamond, the suit his "PARTNER" bid?

There is one answer and one answer only: He is doing it because he is a disgusting, useless, incompetent GIBBO robot, and these blithering I.D.I.O.T.S. seem to LOVE leading DECLARER'S suits and to HATE leading "partner's".

How is it even possible for anyone or anything to be as CONSISTENTLY hopeless in ALL facets of bridge as these constantly inept GIBBO dolts?

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/5xyfu783

[benellis58]

Trick four: Second hand HIGH...again! Lately these incompetent GIBBO bozos seem to be RETURNING to this imbecilic habit (SO beloved by their immediate GIB predecessors, another contemptible bunch of abject losers)...even though Lorserker supposedly cured them of this particular bit of lunacy when he made his series of minor improvements several months ago.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/2p8ax5bf

[benellis58]

The GIBBO lummox in the East is so staggeringly, astonishingly stupid (like every single one of his GIBBO brothers and sisters) that he plays a CLUB rather than an OBVIOUS diamond at trick four.

As I've said a few times before, if we TRIED to create a robot who played worse than these disgusting GIBBO slobs, we would have a HUGELY difficult, perhaps impossible task. They absolutely rot at all facets of the game. They are a grotesque stain on bridge.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/ymnz74as

[benellis58]

3NT happened to make (on a lucky layout) so we happened to get a good score, but North's bidding was as inconsistent and inept as usual.

His "impossible 2S bid" told the story of his hand, over which South bid 3D, defined by GIB as "3+ diamonds; 5+ hearts; 11+ HCP; plus the usual irrelevant drivel about 'total' points - something about which GIB knows NOTHING". So it was VERY inconsistent for North to NOW bid 3NT, considering that he had already shown his values, that those values had originally been considered EXCELLENT values for diamonds (NOT for NT) but he is NOW bidding NT, and that South has shown NOTHING beyond what his first two calls had already shown.

North is also ignoring his own GIB definition of 3NT, which claims that it shows "12+ HCP". The typically pathetic definition also serves as the Nth example that GIB knows NOTHING about "total" points.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/567jnmte

[benellis58]

We all know that GIB definitions are pathetic. Is everyone also aware of how dishonest they sometimes are? Here's an example:

South's 2C is incorrectly and DISHONESTLY defined as showing "3+ clubs", which is a LIE. If a HUMAN gave this FALSE explanation, he would deserve to be penalized and reprimanded.

2C, in the execrable and antiquated GIBBO joke of a bidding system, does NOT show "3+ clubs"! It shows TWO PLUS! Why? Because any time South is 4-5-2-2, as he is here, if he lacks sufficient high-card strength to reverse or raise NT, he MUST bid...TWO CLUBS.

2H would promise a sixth heart, which he does not have.

2S would be a reverse, which would require additional high-card strength, which he does not have.

2NT would show roughly 18-19 HCP, which he does not have.

Theoretically, he COULD bid 2D, but: A. Then THAT would ALSO have to be HONESTLY defined as showing ONLY "TWO plus diamonds". B. It is MUCH better to preserve the integrity of a 2D call as showing at least THREE diamonds, AND it is much more economical and flexible to bid two CLUBS with 2-2 in the minors.

This hand type is NOT a once-in-a-lifetime thing and it is NOT a new phenomenon, so why the HELL has GIB been using this same INCORRECT and DISHONEST LIE (!) about 2C showing "3+ clubs" for YEARS (perhaps even since the "birth" of GIB decades ago!)?

Inexcusable.

And...COMICALLY...while GIB cannot even manage (after ALL these YEARS!) to provide a correct OR honest definition of 2C, it feels that it MUST begin the definition with these two COMPLETELY unnecessary words: "New suit". What a pathetic JOKE! Just as GIBBO robots are the worst, GIB definitions are the worst.

https://tinyurl.brid...se.com/mrcrjk55

[benellis58]

We scored slightly above average (57.69 %) for going down "only" one in 5C, but regardless of result, and looking ONLY at North's hand, why on Earth would he bid 5C (and at MATCHPOINTS yet!) rather than 3NT?

Oh yeah, you're right! Sorry. I must have forgotten that...HE'S A GIBBO ROBOT!!!

BTW, note that in the execrable and ANTIQUATED Blackwood response system that these GIBBO dweebs foolishly play, a bid of FOUR no trump by North would be VERY risky, because if South had only one key card (as he in fact did), he would have to bid 5 diamonds, thereby BYPASSING five CLUBS. That's a MAJOR reason why the 1430 response structure has replaced the ancient 0314 one - EXCEPT for in the pathetic GIBBO system.

Note also the typical BBO layout: KJX of clubs OFFSIDE and KJ93 of hearts also OFFSIDE. I got a nice laugh out of that and was not surprised even a tiny bit.

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

[benellis58]

West pays for his silly, unnecessary, undisciplined 3D call.

https://www.bridgeba...CS6%7Cmc%7C6%7C

[benellis58]

At trick four, West makes the ASTOUNDINGLY braindead play - EVEN for a GIBBO robot (!) - of dropping his JACK of clubs to keep his NINE...KNOWING (!) that he is now making DECLARER South's 10 high! Declarer, thanks to the UNIVERSE-CLASS (not MERELY world-class!) incompetence of the GIBBO robot in the West! The COMPLETE imbecility of these GIBBO dolts knows NO bounds!

https://www.bridgeba...D4%7Cpc%7CDK%7C

[benellis58]

Of COURSE North prefers to lead a diamond, the ENEMY suit, rather than a heart, his "PARTNER'S" suit. Why? Because North is a GIBBO robot.

https://www.bridgeba...D8%7Cpc%7CHJ%7C

[jillybean]

GIBBO is getting a terrible beating lately, I am glad they lack any emotion.
It all makes sense now. GIBBO is a digital sadist designed to inflict maximum psychological damage on masochist BBOers.

[benellis58]

Jilly, your first sentence is quite accurate, and the "terrible beating" is going on not just in this essential thread that Diana was inspired, dedicated, and indeed wise enough to create and name (thereby providing its mission statement), and not just in the numerous other threads that so many disgruntled BBO Forum members have themselves created to bash GIB/GIBBO after they have experienced robotic lunacies, but even on other sites. For example, just two days ago, a thread bearing the title "BBO robots are terrible" was posted on Bridge Winners. The person who created that post then began it by stating "But you already knew that." The BW post has so far received 26 comments. One of the first was "As headlines go this is roughly equivalent to 'Dog Bites Man'". Ironically, the hand that apparently prompted the poster to create his BW thread involved a game with a BEN robot rather than a GIBBO one, but that dd not prevent other contributors to his thread from making strong criticisms of GIB/GIBBO.

As for your fourth sentence, I would replace your word selection of "masochist" with "realistic". In reference to masochists, I refer you back to the "Animal House"/Kevin Bacon scene that I mentioned to you in another thread.

And finally, I know you were using figurative language in amusingly stating that "GIBBO is a digital sadist", but just in case anyone naively interprets your sentence literally, I will defend both you and GIBBO by saying that GIBBO is in no way at all a "sadist". Its motives are pure and it is very, VERY generous, especially when it "defends" against contracts. In "defending" against me when I declare, GIBBO has given me more absolute GIFTS than anyone or anything else I have ever encountered in my long lifetime, and I am confident that the vast majority of people who play in robot games could make that same statement in praise of GIBBO's generosity. GIBBO is kind, compassionate, caring, and considerate, and definitely NOT sadistic. Pity that it is such a truly horrendous "bridge player", though.