Sure, but I am always amused at the rules against bidding what you have (maybe occasionally slightly exagerrated) and people will get up in arms and throw a rage, but all these obnoxious disruptive and negative bids are allowed
Bid what you have and be fair to your opponents
But I appreciate I'm old fashioned and that the whole world has changed
Bridge maye is and always has been something of a metaphor for the world. But it seems disruption, negativity, dishonesty and anything goes in undermining a better or more meritotious or better trained competitor these days
I thought what we were talking about was what was permitted under the "rules". You can be as dirty as you like and undermine your oppos using any number of "dishonest" methods but God forbid you use a game force for a hand worthy og forcing to game
Oh another thing thats changed in the world is the obsession with over complex over engineered systems to give an advantage and privileged compelxity and technical detail over quality, intelligence, flair, imagination, feel, sensitivity, and creativity. That has happened too
I guess its not surprising in a discussion about robots playing bridge and the constraints a computational approach places upon much more complex things. Sadly it has happened evereywhere and rather than computers and AI (or whatever GiB has??) being simply a tool they have become the be all and end all - as have (as I said above) ridicukous over engoneeered techological solutions to everything - at the expense I dare to say of the planet and peoples mental and physical well-being.
But I've kind of given up with all the powerful interests aligned that there will ever be a change.
Maybe it was part of supposedly equalising things - but dorwning out everything of quality in excessively compex technical approaches to everything misses (IMO) the far superior qualities that have been lost or replaced. And allowing skill (if thats the word) at one very limted over technical mindset also loses a lot. The planet and the entities that lvie on it are analog things - they are soft. Along the way some powerful forces thought it could all be replaced with mechanics
I think one of the first times I saw the writing on the wall and the way the world was going was in an economics class 25 or so years ago. A simple bid of maths on the board (with fractions - maybe 2/3) requiring a small amount of simple rearrangement and everyone in class except me went for their calculators and wouldnt even have produced an accurate answer
Actually I think out of the many questionable over-technological approaches we have around us at the momennt is that rather than a clincian being able to sit annd assess the reason for someones distress by getting to know the person, their history, their culture, their oppression, their traumas, their stresses etc - very soon all it will take will to be taken through to a brain scan machine, a blood test to check for dodgy genes etc
ThePossum 'I admit its hard to be upset with GiB for getting excited after my game force but sadly it was a trick or two too many and I knew my limitations - and I know I stretched my minor game force too much too. GiB does get very excited sometimes.'
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GIB's 7♣ seems peculiar with such a balanced hand
IMO, GIB should check on key-cards, if possible, then settle for 7NT