[benellis58]

I guess there's no way for North to find a MAJOR-suit fit in his execrable GIBBO system if the opponents interfere. At least we got a decent 86.67 % for making a LUCKY overtrick in our LUCKY slam - a slam TOTALLY bid by the North robot, since South merely opened a perfectly normal 1NT and after that merely did what North told him to do, or honestly answered North's questions.

The slam was "lucky" because we were off the CASHING ace of diamonds and were therefore at the mercy of the club hook, which LUCKILY worked.

The overtrick was "lucky" because West was too STUPID to make the OBVIOUS (given his hand and the auction) lead of the diamond ace.

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[benellis58]

East's double is silly. Moreover, his hand does not come close to matching the GIB definition of his double, since he does NOT have "7+ HCP" - he has...THREE (!) HCP - a queen (!) and a jack (!), BOTH of which are in his SIX-card suit, a suit where he KNOWS that his partner West has at LEAST three cards.

In short, East's hand does not exactly scream "DEFENCE!"

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[benellis58]

There's a term called "trash talking". It occurred to me that this is a PERFECT term for talking about GIBBO robots.

Is there any actual REASON for North RUFFING his partner South's HIGH diamond at trick three?

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[benellis58]

Drury is one of the FEW good things about the execrable GIBBO system...but GIBBO even plays DRURY stupidly!

Over North's 2C Drury bid, South thinks that there might well be a game, but he also thinks that he's not QUITE good enough to unilaterally leap to it, so he decides to solicit input from his partner, North. Consequently, he bids 2D, an artificial call in the GIBBO system that is defined as "Invite to game - 5+ spades; 13-14 total points". It's a GIB definition, so of course it's largely uninformative, but at least (unlike many completely worthless GIB definitions) it does convey the MAIN issue, which is that South is inviting game.

North JUMPS to THREE spades, and we now see why I am writing this particular post. 3S is (ridiculously) defined by GIB as "3+ spades; 11 HCP; 12 total points; forcing". That final word, "forcing", is the key that exposes the otherworldly imbecility of the way these jackasses play Drury.

Consider: The 2C Drury bid in theory showed a limit raise or better in support of South's spades. It can't really be much "better", though, given that North is a PASSED hand. South then INVITED North to bid a game, basically saying, "Pard, with a maximum Drury, please bid 4S, but with a minimum please bid 2S."

It's therefore 100 % CLEAR what North should do with either a maximum (bid 4S!) or a minimum (bid 2S!). Childishly simple. But what if North, like South, is not completely sure what to do? What if HE too has a hand that he thinks is TOO good to sign off in 2S but not QUITE good enough to LEAP to 4S? Would it not make perfect sense to pass the buck back to South by bidding THREE spades, conveying that message and asking SOUTH to decide, with this added information, whether to pass three spades or bid four? Of course it would!

But in the HOPELESS GIBBO system, as stated three paragraphs ago, 3S is "forcing". How does that make ANY sense? If North is FORCING South to bid over THREE spades, he clearly wants to be in game, so why doesn't he just BID the game...now...himself? It's not as if they might bid a SLAM on this hand, given that they have BOTH made (artificial) invitational bids, North with 2C, followed by South with 2D.

Anyway, they end up in 4S, and...make TWO overtricks, thanks to West's robotic LOVE for leading worthless doubletons and his failure to shift after winning his spade king, AND to East's very questionable decision NOT to pop his club ace. Another COMPLETE zero for the two birdbrains to add to their mammoth collection.

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[benellis58]

The definition of North's double of 3S is "4+ hearts; 5-11 HCP; 6-12 total points". We already knew that he had at least four hearts, because he responded 1H to South's opening 1C bid. So: useless. As for the bit about "total" points: First, it repeats EXACTLY what the definition of his earlier 1H response said, and second, whatever GIB ever says about "total" points might as well always be dumped in a river, because GIB has demonstrated on multiple occasions that it has no understanding whatsoever of total points. So: useless again. The ONLY difference between the definition of this double and the definition of his earlier 1H bid is that it now says "5-11 HCP", whereas the earlier definition of 1H lazily said "11- HCP", rather than putting a lower limit. I guess that would have been too much work for GIB (!) because GIB was expending SO much energy in the definition of 1H by proudly informing us that the 1H response to 1C was "One over one". Oh yeah, THAT was SUPER important. Good grief, could we write WORSE definitions even if we TRIED to?

Also, consider that the GIB definitions are basically RECOMMENDING what they say. Would North REALLY want to double 3S if he had ONLY four hearts and ONLY 5 HCP? No? Then why does the pathetic GIB definition state that he CAN and presumably SHOULD double WITH those defined minimums?

Against 5C, West of COURSE does not lead HIS partnership's suit. Why would he? After all, the incompetent GIBBO robots HATE leading their suits. They LOVE leading the enemy suits, which explains why the poor ignorant stiff led a HEART, NORTH'S suit. Were all GIBBO robots repeatedly dropped headfirst onto a cement floor?

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[benellis58]

Trick four: Up to this point, not a single club has been played. Declarer North now leads the 2 of clubs towards dummy South's J1095. East plays the queen, which is obviously slated to win the trick. Declarer calls for dummy's 5.

West, (presumably) the "partner" of East (whose club queen is currently winning this trick), has the K843 of clubs. He decides that the best thing he can possibly do is to...overtake (!) his "partner's" queen...with his king and then...IMMEDIATELY fire back his FOUR (!) of clubs (!)from his remaining 843!

One: How the HELL is overtaking his pard's queen...with his own king...while STARING at the remaining J109 (!) in dummy (!) ever going to help?

Two: Why was he in a RUSH to overtake pard's queen of CLUBS...merely to play...of ALL things (!)...ANOTHER club?

Three: Note that he is doing what these fleabrained imbeciles perversely and totally illogically LOVE to do: He is IMMEDIATELY returning the suit that DECLARER played.

Four: In addition to the utter MADNESS that he has just displayed to the WORLD, he can't even return the correct club! He has the 843 left. He should return the 3 (not that it would matter after the unfathomable compression play that he just engineered!), but he returns the 4.

Declarer, with three TOP club losers, loses ONLY two (the ace and the king), as the queen was swallowed by the king...for absolutely NO reason except for the overwhelming, astounding stupidity of the GIBBO robot in the West.

Not ONLY have declarer's THREE club losers magically become only two, but dummy's remaining J10 have QUICKLY become winners, so he has a parking place for his potentially losing heart and does not even NEED the heart finesse anymore.

But there are STILL some BBO members who faithfully advocate for the GIBBO robots. Thay are "better than most human players," these advocates scream from the highest rooftops. Have these advocates ever actually LOOKED at a hand that the GIBBO robots are involved in?

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[benellis58]

Some people might think I'm too tough on the robots, so to counter that belief, I will happily PRAISE robot North here. Read on to see the wonderful bid he made. But be sure to read this entire post so that you see ALL the praise.

North makes an excellent bid: 2NT. This shows his hand perfectly.

Armed with this knowledge, South bids 3S,,,signing off and (presumably!) ending the auction. He KNOWS North's hand, thanks to North's excellent 2NT bid, so he stops at exactly the right level, in THREE spades.

North, with NOTHING extra, raises to 4S - thereby bidding the SAME values that he ALREADY showed...AGAIN. And...

He doesn't even adhere to (stop me if you've heard this one before!) his own GIB definition, because that definition (of 4S) promises "12+ HCP", which literally means 12-37, since no upper limit is mentioned. Surprise, surprise: North does NOT have 37...or 25...or 18...or 15...or EVEN the promised MINIMUM of 12. He has a mere 10. He does NOT have his bid, and of COURSE he does not have the "13-19 total points" promised by the definition, but then again that's probably immaterial because the world is well aware by now that GIB has no idea about "total" points and ANY GIB reference to "total" points should always be ignored.

THREE spades would have made. FOUR spades goes one down, which is perhaps not shocking, considering that there were FOUR TOP LOSERS.

So, I am PRAISING North for his excellent 2NT bid. WELL done, Sir, well done indeed! Too bad you followed that up with your typically BONEHEADED bid of 4S, you miserable. perpetual LOSER!

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[benellis58]

West leads his four-card minor instead of his five-card major. Yes, West IS a GIBBO robot.

At trick five, declarer calls for dummy's 8 of clubs...and slides it.

West wins his club jack and IMMEDIATELY fires back a...CLUB!

A CLUB! ALL GIBBO are horrendous "bridge players", but West is a STRONG contender for the title of World's WORST "bridge player". We wish him all the best in his relentless quest for that glorious honour, but it will not be easy, because every single GIBBO robot is quite obviously ALSO aiming for it.

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[benellis58]

West's 2NT with a "stopper" of J10 doubleton in clubs, the only unbid suit, does not seem wise. I don't know if GIBBO plays FSF by a passed hand, but if not, it probably should, and if so, it certainly would have been a far better choice than 2NT.

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[benellis58]

PheNOMenally, magnificently STUPID, astoundingly STUPID lead by the always braindead and worthless GIBBO robot in the East. This is the type of lead that I would expect from GIBBO's predecessors, because those utterly repugnant GIB robots were even - hard as this might be to imagine - worse than the current GIBBO pieces of trash.

Fortunately, Lorserker's good work resulted in the GIBBO robots becoming better leaders than the GIB ones were. Don't get me wrong: The GIBBO robots are still horrendous leaders (and still horrendous at ALL aspects of bridge), but at least they are better at them than GIB was...but obviously not always, as this absolute JOKE of an opening lead proves beyond a shadow of a doubt. Please get RID of the GIBBO robots and replace them with COMPETENT ones.

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[benellis58]

Fortunately - very fortunately - we scored 90.63 % on this board for making 4S and getting plus 420 in our...5-1 (!!!) spade "fit". The only NS pair that outscored us on the board doubled EW in 3H and beat it two tricks vulnerable for plus 500.

But regardless of the good...and LUCKY...result, why the HELL would North pass (!!!) South in his SECOND suit, while holding a singleton (!) there and three cards in South's first suit? South has shown at least 6 diamonds and 5 spades, and North has THREE diamonds and ONLY one spade. He is very likely in a 5-1 fit (as indeed he was) and he KNOWS that 5D will be at least a 6-3 fit!

Yes, I'm aware that 5D will require 11 tricks while 4S will require "only" 10, and yes, I'm also aware that spades score better than diamonds, but come ON! They only score better if you actually MAKE your contract. This WRETCHED contract only made because of a very lucky layout AND because of the typically IMBECILIC lead by the ignoramus in the West...followed by a STUNNINGLY stupid subsequent "defence". Being one of the worst "bridge players" of ALL time, the absolute ZERO followed the core philosophy of these sick, twisted GIBBO losers. The clueless dolt led the 8 of DIAMONDS (!) from his worthless 84 doubleton...INTO a declarer who had shown a GOOD hand with at LEAST six...DIAMONDS (!) and five spades. The M.O.R.O.N.I.C. robot led this insane diamond rather than his PARTNER'S known heart suit! How is it even possible for anyone or anything to be as profoundly stupid as these contemptible GIBBO pieces of garbage?

After the *****ous lead, East won the diamond ace at trick one and returned a diamond at trick two. Then later, at trick 6, this was the remaining spade position:

Declarer South had the 764. "Defender" West had the 85. Dummy North had a VOID. "Defender" East had the stiff 9.

As you can see, EW had TWO spade tricks remaining at this point, as West's 9 and East's 8 were BOTH higher than South's HIGHEST spade (which was the 7)...AND the EW spades were 2-1, so South could NOT "crash" them on the same trick...YET he lost only ONE spade from here on in! He led his 7, and West was SO stupid and SO cowardly that he played his...EIGHT (!), and his "partner" East perforce played the 9, since that was the ONLY spade he (East) had left. The two high spades therefore CRASHED (needlessly!) on the same trick. After winning his 9, East played a heart and declarer CLAIMED, as he could now pull West's remaining spade FIVE with his (South's) SIX. After this breathtakingly AWFUL "defence", one of the worst of ALL time, declarer made EXACTLY 10 tricks, thereby EXACTLY making his contract...which quite obviously (and not surprisingly) had NO legitimate play... while 5D was ICE COLD. These GIBBO robots are pathetic! Words can't come CLOSE to accurately describing just HOW bad they are. They totally rot and are an embarrassment to the game.

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[benellis58]

South is declaring 5D. He wins the opening heart lead in his hand and then starts pulling trump. This is the trump (diamond) story:

Declarer South has A7 doubleton.
"Defender" West has Q52.
Dummy North has KJ109843.
"Defender" East has the stiff 6.

At trick two, declarer cashes his ace. West plays the 2, dummy the 3, and East the 6.

At trick 3, declarer leads his remaining diamond, the 7, towards dummy's remaining KJ10984.

It;s West's turn to play. He has the queen and the five. Which one should he play?

Yes, of COURSE he should play his FIVE, thereby forcing declarer to guess whether to rise with dummy's king or insert the jack (or ANY other card, since all except the king are equals at this point). YOU know that the FIVE is the OBVIOUS card for West to play, I know it, ANY bridge player ANYWHERE knows it, and it's SO obvious that a turtle or a raccoon would probably know it...but the GIBBO robot in the West clearly DOESN'T know it, because the incomparable FOOL plays the queen (!!!), thereby ELIMINATING declarer's guess and turning a perhaps 50 % proposition for declarer into a solid gold one hundred percent guaranteed play!

It is impossible to overstate how TRULY wretched these abominable, disgusting GIBBO pieces of trash are at the game of bridge.

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[benellis58]

Typically braindead cuebid (or cuebidS!) by the worthless GIBBO trout in the East. His partner West is a PASSED hand, so why the HELL is East cuebidding (!) 2D after West's PASSED HAND (!) double of South's 1D opener? Why doesn't he just bid a NORMAL, STRAIGHTFORWARD, "MERE" 2S opposite this PASSED HAND (!) double?

Later it's even more comical, because after West bids 2H over the ludicrous 2D cuebid, East PERSISTS in his madness by bidding THREE diamonds!

Meanwhile West was no hero either. He probably should have bid two spades over East's deranged 2D. Then he could have bid three hearts over East's even more demented 3D, so that they could find the superior major fit (which, of course, was spades - not hearts where these two supreme fleabrains rested).

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[benellis58]

West does not exactly shine on "defence". I know, I know: that's a real shock, isn't it?

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