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Same hand, different table, different (and strange!) auction by a different human. Here the GIB robot sitting West makes a DIFFERENT lead...but also, as expected, a STUPID one. THIS West also fails to find the obvious (and killing) heart lead, but here he does NOT lead a spade. Why not? Because HERE the OPPONENTS (NS) did NOT bid spades, so the lead was less attractive to him, because as we know from experience, he LOVES to lead suits that the ENEMY bids. Here, since they DIDN'T bid spades, he didn't want to lead one, and of course he wouldn't DREAM of leading HIS suit (hearts), so he made another of his favourite leads: his WEAKEST suit, clubs.
Declarer won and took a (losing) diamond hook at trick two. Winning his offside king, what did the GIB robot sitting West now do? Well, of COURSE he immediately...fired back a...DIAMOND (!), because these cretins LOVE to immediately return DECLARER'S suit, idiots that they are.
Declarer won and slid the spade jack, winning. Then when he played the spade queen, the GIB robot sitting West made the colossally stupid blunder of failing to cover with his king, allowing South to score five spade tricks when he was legitimately entitled to only four.
Just one MORE in the endless stream of examples illustrating how absolutely wretched the GIB robots are at "defending"!
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#242
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Posted Today, 04:33
West, North, and East are all GIB robots. Knowing that his GIB partner is incompetent and that his two GIB opponents are also incompetent, the human South decides to operate by opening 1NT. North raises to 3NT, and West is on lead.
What does the GIB robot sitting West lead? Perhaps the spade king? That would appear to be the normal lead in theory, and perhaps unsurprisingly it would also be the best lead in practice on this particular hand. So...of COURSE that's not what West leads. After all, HE'S a GIB robot!
He makes what in theory appears to be the remarkably stupid lead of the ace of clubs. And in practice? Well, again unsurprisingly, it is the worst possible lead for EW and the best possible lead for NS. Not exactly a surprise WHENEVER a GIB robot is on lead!
South scores an easy 12 tricks, mainly thanks to the imbecilic lead of the ace of clubs.
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What does the GIB robot sitting West lead? Perhaps the spade king? That would appear to be the normal lead in theory, and perhaps unsurprisingly it would also be the best lead in practice on this particular hand. So...of COURSE that's not what West leads. After all, HE'S a GIB robot!
He makes what in theory appears to be the remarkably stupid lead of the ace of clubs. And in practice? Well, again unsurprisingly, it is the worst possible lead for EW and the best possible lead for NS. Not exactly a surprise WHENEVER a GIB robot is on lead!
South scores an easy 12 tricks, mainly thanks to the imbecilic lead of the ace of clubs.
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#243
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Posted Today, 04:56
Not my table, but a very amusing story that, as usual, exposes the glorious ineptitude of the GIB robots:
West, North, and East are all GIB robots. The human South (whoever he is), knowing that the other three players at his table are all grossly incompetent, decides to experiment with a 1NT opening bid. This is passed out, leaving West on lead.
West has 1042, Q84, AKQ84, 107. Does he lead a DIAMOND? Sorry, silly question - of COURSE he doesn't lead a DIAMOND, because...HE'S a GIB robot!
He does, however shock the world by not making the EXPECTED GIB lead of the club 10. Nope, he leads the 2 of spades.
Declarer runs five spade tricks, and of COURSE West pitches a heart from Q84 and East pitches a heart from J72, so South is now able to rattle off FOUR heart tricks! Unfortunately, he blocks the suit and only takes three of them, proving that even humans can go wrong sometimes, but in South's defense maybe he caught brain flu from sitting at a table with three GIB robots. His failure to take his fourth heart trick didn't cost him anyway, as he had only legitimately been entitled to two heart tricks to begin with, if the EW morons had not BOTH pitched hearts, and he emerged with 8 tricks for plus 120 and a score of 100 % on the board, while the GIB robots sitting West scored a well-deserved ZERO for their pitiful attempt at "defending".
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West, North, and East are all GIB robots. The human South (whoever he is), knowing that the other three players at his table are all grossly incompetent, decides to experiment with a 1NT opening bid. This is passed out, leaving West on lead.
West has 1042, Q84, AKQ84, 107. Does he lead a DIAMOND? Sorry, silly question - of COURSE he doesn't lead a DIAMOND, because...HE'S a GIB robot!
He does, however shock the world by not making the EXPECTED GIB lead of the club 10. Nope, he leads the 2 of spades.
Declarer runs five spade tricks, and of COURSE West pitches a heart from Q84 and East pitches a heart from J72, so South is now able to rattle off FOUR heart tricks! Unfortunately, he blocks the suit and only takes three of them, proving that even humans can go wrong sometimes, but in South's defense maybe he caught brain flu from sitting at a table with three GIB robots. His failure to take his fourth heart trick didn't cost him anyway, as he had only legitimately been entitled to two heart tricks to begin with, if the EW morons had not BOTH pitched hearts, and he emerged with 8 tricks for plus 120 and a score of 100 % on the board, while the GIB robots sitting West scored a well-deserved ZERO for their pitiful attempt at "defending".
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Posted Today, 12:23
Although I often criticize the horrendous play of the GIB robots, I must admit that they are very friendly. They are exceedingly generous in "defending" and are very nice in helping declarer. This hand is an excellent example of how very nice the GIB robots are.
First, West begins by making one of his most beloved (and usually most stupid) leads: his STIFF trump. The play to trick one makes it a virtual certainty that the human declarer will now "guess" the hearts correctly and lose NO hearts, whereas without the fatuous lead of the stiff trump, there is a very good chance that declarer might well lose a trump trick.
Thanks to West's GENEROUS lead, declarer leads a spade to dummy's king at trick two, intending to next play a heart to his 10 unless the queen pops up. This is his plan because thanks to the (silly) heart lead, declarer is confident that East was born with both the queen and jack of hearts.
But when the heart is led from dummy, East (with Q9 remaining) plays the...QUEEN, so of course South wins the king and cashes the 10, pulling all enemy (EW) trumps. WHY did East play the queen from Q9? It could NEVER gain, but it COULD lose...if declarer was about to misguess if East played the (normal and correct!) nine. In practice, this South would have (thanks to West's foolish lead) "guessed" right and inserted the 10 if East had CORRECTLY played the nine, so East's stupid pop of the queen didn't cost THIS time against THIS declarer...but it proved how "nice" the GIB robot is, because he went out of his way to ensure that declarer could not POSSIBLY go wrong.
Meanwhile, West stupidly pitched a diamond, making sure that declarer would EASILY end up with 12 tricks, resulting in a score of 96.4 % for NS and 3.6 % for EW. The GIB robots might be shockingly poor "defenders", but they are very nice and GENEROUS opponents who so frequently DONATE good scores to their opponents.
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First, West begins by making one of his most beloved (and usually most stupid) leads: his STIFF trump. The play to trick one makes it a virtual certainty that the human declarer will now "guess" the hearts correctly and lose NO hearts, whereas without the fatuous lead of the stiff trump, there is a very good chance that declarer might well lose a trump trick.
Thanks to West's GENEROUS lead, declarer leads a spade to dummy's king at trick two, intending to next play a heart to his 10 unless the queen pops up. This is his plan because thanks to the (silly) heart lead, declarer is confident that East was born with both the queen and jack of hearts.
But when the heart is led from dummy, East (with Q9 remaining) plays the...QUEEN, so of course South wins the king and cashes the 10, pulling all enemy (EW) trumps. WHY did East play the queen from Q9? It could NEVER gain, but it COULD lose...if declarer was about to misguess if East played the (normal and correct!) nine. In practice, this South would have (thanks to West's foolish lead) "guessed" right and inserted the 10 if East had CORRECTLY played the nine, so East's stupid pop of the queen didn't cost THIS time against THIS declarer...but it proved how "nice" the GIB robot is, because he went out of his way to ensure that declarer could not POSSIBLY go wrong.
Meanwhile, West stupidly pitched a diamond, making sure that declarer would EASILY end up with 12 tricks, resulting in a score of 96.4 % for NS and 3.6 % for EW. The GIB robots might be shockingly poor "defenders", but they are very nice and GENEROUS opponents who so frequently DONATE good scores to their opponents.
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Posted Today, 12:34
West, North, and East are all GIB robots. NS get to 3NT, which to put it mildly is not the world's greatest contract! Have no fear, though, because...two GIB robots are sitting East-West and "defending". The hand SHOULD go down one with the heart king offside, but the two GIB robots take only the heart king and ONE (!!!) spade, allowing NS to win ELEVEN (!) tricks and score 100 % on the board. The East-West "defenders", both GIB ROBOTS of course, "earn" themselves a VERY well-deserved ZERO for their clueless performance.
OR...maybe they were just being "nice" and "generous"...AGAIN! (Ha, ha.)
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OR...maybe they were just being "nice" and "generous"...AGAIN! (Ha, ha.)
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