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Typically BRILLIANT auction by the GIBBO dweeb in the East.
Unscientific? Check.
Unilateral? Check?
Wasting FOUR levels of bidding space? Check.
Could EASILY be WRONG (as indeed it was)? Check.
Stands to gain NOTHING, EVEN if it magically and luckily turns out to be the right spot? Check.
It is, of COURSE, the famous FOUR-LEVEL LEAP to 6NT, one of the MANY "specialties" of the dreaded GIBBO robots that combine to make them such atrociously bad "bridge players".
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Benellis58 GIB bashing on repeat Groundhog Day
#2382
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Posted Yesterday, 23:44
Why it so often pays to operate against the hopeless, useless, worthless GIBBO robots:
I'm in third seat, white against red, with a FIVE-count. Odds are the VULNERABLE opponents have a game.
I open...2C! West passes. My "partner" North makes a very stupid bid of 2NT, but to be fair, the poor sap is merely doing what the absolutely WRETCHED GIBBO system of 2C responses insanely TELLS him is the "right" thing to do.
East passes. I pass. I said, "I PASS". I PASS..."pard's" response of 2NT, which GIB defines as showing "8-11 HCP". I do this after having opened TWO CLUBS (!) , which GIB defined as showing "19+ HCP" and "23+ total points"!
According to the GIB definitions, our North-South partnership has a combined total of at LEAST...TWENTY-SEVEN HCP (!)...even if we BOTH have our BARE MINIMUM.
West, in passout seat, obviously feels that there is nothing at ALL strange about this, as he...PASSES...with EIGHTEEN HCP in his OWN hand!
I go down...FIVE tricks...not vulnerable and not doubled. I end up minus 250 and score...92.31 % on the board. This tactic could ONLY succeed against an opponent as braindead as a GIBBO robot!
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I'm in third seat, white against red, with a FIVE-count. Odds are the VULNERABLE opponents have a game.
I open...2C! West passes. My "partner" North makes a very stupid bid of 2NT, but to be fair, the poor sap is merely doing what the absolutely WRETCHED GIBBO system of 2C responses insanely TELLS him is the "right" thing to do.
East passes. I pass. I said, "I PASS". I PASS..."pard's" response of 2NT, which GIB defines as showing "8-11 HCP". I do this after having opened TWO CLUBS (!) , which GIB defined as showing "19+ HCP" and "23+ total points"!
According to the GIB definitions, our North-South partnership has a combined total of at LEAST...TWENTY-SEVEN HCP (!)...even if we BOTH have our BARE MINIMUM.
West, in passout seat, obviously feels that there is nothing at ALL strange about this, as he...PASSES...with EIGHTEEN HCP in his OWN hand!
I go down...FIVE tricks...not vulnerable and not doubled. I end up minus 250 and score...92.31 % on the board. This tactic could ONLY succeed against an opponent as braindead as a GIBBO robot!
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#2383
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Posted Today, 00:21
North is on lead against West's contract of 2S. North has A92, 64, 432, QJ986. North has what appears to be an OBVIOUS club lead STARING HIM IN THE FACE.
But maybe the AUCTION tells him not to lead a club. That's certainly possible. Let's see:
South, West, and North all passed, and East opened one HEART in fourth seat. South passed again and West bid one SPADE. North passed again and East raised to two SPADES. All passed.
Nope, the auction gives North NO reason to avoid a club lead, so he leads...a HEART! The imbecile leads a HEART, the suit his LHO opened the bidding in! He KNOWS that his LHO has 5+ hears and 4+ spades, but he leads a HEART! Not only does he NOT lead the OBVIOUS club, but he doesn't even swing to a diamond. He INSISTS on leading the 6 of HEARTS from his worthless 64 doubleton. Yes, he IS a GIBBO robot.
Dummy East tables QJ76, AQJ93, A5, 105. Declarer West calls for dummy's 3. A disgusted South plays the 2 (not that it matters, because South knows that the GIBBO rejects treat all spot cards as interchangeable equals anyway) and declarer West wins his eight.
At trick two, declarer West leads his 4 of spades towards dummy's QJ76. North has THREE spades (trump) himself. He sees four in dummy. He KNOWS that declarer has at LEAST four. Okay, time for some basic arithmetic: North's three, plus East's four, plus West's MINIMUM of four add up to ELEVEN of the thirteen spades in the deck, so North KNOWS that his "partner" South has at MOST two spades. And he KNOWS that if West happens to have FIVE spsdes rather than only four, which is certainly possible, South will have only ONE spade.
North's three spades are the A92. He decides that he MUST...IMMEDIATELY...FLY UP with his spade ace. Perhaps he is TERRIFIED that if he doesn't take it RIGHT NOW, he might NEVER get it ( the ACE of TRUMPS)! Or perhaps he's desperately hoping to CRASH his "partner's" potentially STIFF KING OF SPADES (if West has five rather than four).
In other words, North is popping his TRUMP ace for absolutely NO reason and is making a play that can NEVER gain, a play that CAN lose BADLY on some layouts, and a play that can at BEST break even. In other words, a ZERO PERCENT PLAY, something at which the GIBBO robots EXCEL!
He of course wins trick two, as East and West both follow low, meaning that LUCKILY he did not crash "partner's" stiff king, as he WOULD have on some layouts. (HE actually came CLOSE, as SOUTH DID have the king of spades, but by pure CHANCE it was doubleton rather than singleton).
At trick three, THRILLED that he was able to score his...ACE OF TRUMPS...and that he won't have to fear NEVER scoring it, North now continues his KILLING "defence" by playing...a second round of hearts!
But PLEASE, o ye apologists for and defenders of the GIBBO robots, PLEASE remind me AGAIN of how they are "better than most human players".
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But maybe the AUCTION tells him not to lead a club. That's certainly possible. Let's see:
South, West, and North all passed, and East opened one HEART in fourth seat. South passed again and West bid one SPADE. North passed again and East raised to two SPADES. All passed.
Nope, the auction gives North NO reason to avoid a club lead, so he leads...a HEART! The imbecile leads a HEART, the suit his LHO opened the bidding in! He KNOWS that his LHO has 5+ hears and 4+ spades, but he leads a HEART! Not only does he NOT lead the OBVIOUS club, but he doesn't even swing to a diamond. He INSISTS on leading the 6 of HEARTS from his worthless 64 doubleton. Yes, he IS a GIBBO robot.
Dummy East tables QJ76, AQJ93, A5, 105. Declarer West calls for dummy's 3. A disgusted South plays the 2 (not that it matters, because South knows that the GIBBO rejects treat all spot cards as interchangeable equals anyway) and declarer West wins his eight.
At trick two, declarer West leads his 4 of spades towards dummy's QJ76. North has THREE spades (trump) himself. He sees four in dummy. He KNOWS that declarer has at LEAST four. Okay, time for some basic arithmetic: North's three, plus East's four, plus West's MINIMUM of four add up to ELEVEN of the thirteen spades in the deck, so North KNOWS that his "partner" South has at MOST two spades. And he KNOWS that if West happens to have FIVE spsdes rather than only four, which is certainly possible, South will have only ONE spade.
North's three spades are the A92. He decides that he MUST...IMMEDIATELY...FLY UP with his spade ace. Perhaps he is TERRIFIED that if he doesn't take it RIGHT NOW, he might NEVER get it ( the ACE of TRUMPS)! Or perhaps he's desperately hoping to CRASH his "partner's" potentially STIFF KING OF SPADES (if West has five rather than four).
In other words, North is popping his TRUMP ace for absolutely NO reason and is making a play that can NEVER gain, a play that CAN lose BADLY on some layouts, and a play that can at BEST break even. In other words, a ZERO PERCENT PLAY, something at which the GIBBO robots EXCEL!
He of course wins trick two, as East and West both follow low, meaning that LUCKILY he did not crash "partner's" stiff king, as he WOULD have on some layouts. (HE actually came CLOSE, as SOUTH DID have the king of spades, but by pure CHANCE it was doubleton rather than singleton).
At trick three, THRILLED that he was able to score his...ACE OF TRUMPS...and that he won't have to fear NEVER scoring it, North now continues his KILLING "defence" by playing...a second round of hearts!
But PLEASE, o ye apologists for and defenders of the GIBBO robots, PLEASE remind me AGAIN of how they are "better than most human players".
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#2384
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Posted Today, 00:39
Trick two: "Defender" East FLIES with his diamond ace to ENSURE that declarer cannot possibly misguess diamonds. THEN, at trick three, he of COURSE plays another...diamond...because, being a GIBBO robot, he LOVES to continue the suit DECLARER plays. AND, being a GIBBO robot, he of COURSE returns the WRONG diamond, the deuce instead of the 8. He wins trick four with his heart ace, and then plays another - yep, you guessed it - diamond, because, "Hey, DECLARER played diamonds, so I MUST continue them. Isn't that what the GIBBO manual on 'defence' says?"
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