[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.

[benellis58]

In the post immediately above, I spoke of GIBBO'S great generosity when it "defends". Here's an example, and it's not even a prime example of what they do when they are REALLY being generous, but it's a hand that was in the last set I played, so it happens to be conveniently available. Look how they go out of their way to make things easy for declarer and how they do their utmost to ensure that he won't misguess any suits:

East's diamond lead can't be criticized, but it happens to make it easy for declarer to set up a quick second diamond trick. Thus, declarer wins trick one with his king and immediately leads a second round of diamonds at trick two. East gleefully wins that trick with his ace and then VERY generously decides to HELP declarer. At trick three, he cashes his diamond queen and then at trick four, having succeeded in establishing declarer's second diamond trick, he exits with a heart, knowing that this shift cannot hurt his "opponent".

Declarer wins the heart in dummy with the queen, and observes that if he can guess the layout of the spade suit, he can take four tricks in it. But he has several options. Since dummy has KQ105 of spades and declarer has A98, he has ALL the key spots and just has to locate the jack. BUT...does he play for a 3-3 split and just bang down his combined spades from the top...OR does he at some point hook WEST for the jack...OR does he at some point hook EAST for the jack? Ahh, decisions, decisions. Declarer uses the standard approach of first cashing a high spade from the hand with TWO honours, so he begins by playing dummy's spade queen, on which West follows with the 3 and East the 7. Then on the next trick, trick six, he continues with dummy's spade 5, which he is leading towards his remaining A9, two cards obviously invisible to EW. West plays the... JACK of spades, and declarer's guess VANISHES. He is now GUARANTEED to score four spade tricks. He CANNOT go wrong. But note that...

West's remaining spades at trick six were the jack (which he played) AND the 6. Second hand HIGH had once AGAIN reared its ugly head! It ELIMINATED any possible guess declarer might have had, and it GUARANTEED that declarer would get the suit "right" and win ALL FOUR spade tricks.

Note that if West had KEPT HIS JACK and made the obvious, easy, ELEMENTARY (!) play of following with the 6 - a play that even a raw BEGINNER would likely EASILY (perhaps AUTOMATICALLY!) find, declarer would almost certainly have risen with his ace and East would have played one of his two remaining spades (either the 4 or the 2). Then at trick 7 declarer would have led his last spade, the 9, towards dummy's remaining K10. East would have played HIS last spade (be it the 4 or the 2, whichever was left) and declarer would have called for dummy's....dummy's...dummy's....WHAT? Would declarer have called for dummy's KING, thereby successfully guessing the suit, successfully dropping West's now stiff jack, and successfully winning FOUR spade tricks? Who knows? MAYBE he would...but MAYBE he would have inserted the 10, playing for enemy spades 4-2 with East having four to the jack. If he guessed to do THAT, West would WIN his still-remaining, now-stiff JACK!

Declarer, as seen from the previous paragraph, MIGHT have guessed wrong, because EVERY bridge player guesses wrong sometimes. But the kind, GENEROUS (but not very bright!) GIBBO robot in the West - when he made his M.O.R.O.N.I.C, second hand HIGH play of the JACK at trick six, had made it IMPOSSIBLE for declarer to guess wrong!

https://www.bridgeba...CA%7Cpc%7CCT%7C

[benellis58]

Although East has no particularly attractive lead against North's 4H, it's unlikely that his choice of a diamond will be best.

At trick five, West pitches a club. I guess he figures that he MUST keep...SIX spades.

The club he pitches is the THREE from K83. East cashes the heart jack and club ace, and then plays a...SPADE. Minus 420 for EW instead of the plus 50 they would have scored if they took their TWO...TOP clubs. Maybe the fact that they either don't signal or don't even know HOW to signal had something to do with their failure here.

https://www.bridgeba...H8%7Cpc%7CS2%7C

[benellis58]

Not my table, but worth reporting because it shows GIBBO at its "best":

West bids 3D when 2NT would, in my opinion, be a better call. The GIB definition of 3D is also highly questionable, because why would West open TWO CLUBS if he could have as FEW as five diamonds and as LITTLE as 19 HCP?

West's subsequent 3NT call is, as we would expect, VERY poorly described in a typically pathetic GIB definition. His HCP range is RIDICULOUSLY broad (EIGHT POINTS!). Since he could have, according to witless GIB, as FEW as 19 but as MANY as 26, how is his "partner" EVER going to intelligently know what to do? This shows all the more why he should have earlier bid 2NT rather than 3D, as THAT would have pinpointed his HCP as being 22-24 (or something similar, depending on how the rotten GIBBO system identifies it).

Over West's 3NT, East commits one of his favourite nonsensical actions by stupidly, arbitrarily, unilaterally. and unscientifically leaping to 6NT, thereby WASTING three levels of potentially useful bidding space with his mad leap. THIS astoundingly stupid bid is defined by GIB as showing "14-16 HCP", even though the feebleminded simp actually has only eleven. On top of everything else, he's too ignorant and undisciplined to follow his own GIB definition.

Despite the overwhelming stupidity of their hopeless auction, the two East-West dopes have actually stumbled into a good contract. After the opening lead, it's ICE COLD, but the terminally useless GIBBO sap in the West manages to COMPLETELY butcher the hand and go down.

And, don't forget that declarer play is the BEST part of their game...even though, as this hand CLEARLY proves, they absolutely STINK at it. It's ONLY the best part of their game because they stink even MORE at opening leads, defence, and bidding. GIBBO robots are the worst at just about everything - and I'm being EXTREMELY kind by including the words "just about" in that statement. They are an embarrassment to the game.

https://www.bridgeba...S8%7Cpc%7CSQ%7C

[benellis58]

Once again not my table, but worth reporting:

I think East should respond 1H rather than passing, but okay, we'll live with his pass. But GIVEN that he passed, why in the world (and, folks, it's a big, WIDE world, as Teddy Randazzo might have said) would West make a takeout double (!) of South's 2C with his ratbag little twelve-count and his dry, almost pancake flat 4-4-3-2 shape? Is this perennial dimwit afraid they might miss a GRAND? What a clueless dweeb!

Next, look at West's sequence of plays. Donald J. Dumbo in the East leads a normal diamond. Johnny Halfwit wins his king. All normal and fine so far, but then...

At trick two, Halfwit cashes his diamond ace and at trick three he switches to the spade king. Talk about changing horses in midstream (and since we're discussing GIBBO, we certainly aren't talking about thoroughbreds!). If it's "right" to cash the diamond ace at trick two, then it's also "right" to continue diamonds at trick three. On the other hand, if it's "right" to switch to spades at trick three, then it was also "right" to make the shift t trick TWO...and NOT to cash the ace of diamonds.

Anyway, what's done is done, but NEXT, on the run of the clubs, Dumbo (who is NOT legitimately squeezed, since he plays and discards AFTER dummy) stupidly pitches the WRONG cards (what else is new?) and allows declarer to take a laughable ELEVEN tricks.

Why have these incompetent GIBBO buffoons not been sent to a landfill, a garbage compactor, the bottom of the sea, or 93 million miles into outer space? Why are they still here, defiling every bridge hand they play, when new and BETTER robots are waiting to replace them?

https://www.bridgeba...DJ%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

And yet ANOTHER hand not from my table, but worth reporting:

West decides to lead a major against South's 1NT. Fine. But being a GIBBO robot, the loser leads his SHORTER and WEAKER major. Golly gee, what a total SHOCK that leading his LONGER, STRONGER one would have worked out better for him. Who could EVER have guessed?

And of COURSE these EW dweebs also grossly misdefend as the hand continues. After six tricks have been played, EW can take all seven of the remaining tricks no matter what declarer does. They would then beat South's 1NT by one trick. Instead, these clueless, witless GIBBO palookas totally botch things and allow declarer to take two overtricks! Instead of making six tricks, he makes NINE, thanks ENTIRELY to the abject incompetence of Frick and Frack!

First, when declarer leads his last (losing) club at trick seven, Frick stupidly (what else?) pitches a (winning) spade to keep a (losing) diamond. Frack wins the club and plays his spade 7. Frick wins his jack...cashes his ace of diamonds (!)...and then plays...another DIAMOND...picking up the entire suit for a very grateful...and VERY amused declarer, who is STILL laughing long after the hand has entered the annals of history.

GIBBO rots.

https://www.bridgeba...CDK%7Cmc%7C9%7C

[benellis58]

For the fourth consecutive post, here is another hand not from my table, but that is well worth posting:

In response to South's (shaded) 1NT overcall, North bids Stayman. East bravely rebids his suit with a 2S call. South and West pass.

North now LEAPS to THREE no trump. Why? The GIBBO robots almost always treat hands such as North's as merely invitational, not as a GF, so WHY (given their USUAL "strategy" - ha, ha - with such a hand) is he unilaterally and anti-systemically bidding a game here? As usual, he will be gaining nothing if it makes (because if it does, it is likely that South would have accepted an invitation), but if it fails, his bid will be - like the GIBBO robot himself - a complete LOSER. It's not North's fault that South lacks a full and legitimate 1NT overcall, but it is definitely North's fault that HE lacks the values for HIS jump to 3NT. As is so often the case, he is ignoring his own GIB definition, which claims that his 3NT call shows "10-11 HCP".

At trick three, declarer South calls for dummy's diamond 10 from KJ10 tripleton. East, with Q65, stupidly plays the queen, which cannot gain, but CAN...EASILY cost.

GIBBO rots. (Yes, I've said that many times - but it can NEVER be said often enough.)


https://www.bridgeba...HT%7Cpc%7CHK%7C

[benellis58]

And now the FIFTH consecutive post of a hand not from my table. This is probably the MOST entertaining of the five, as the typically braindead GIBBO robot in the West demonstrates conclusively that he is not only worse...but actually FAR worse than even the WORST raw beginner! In an IQ test, I would bet on a CABBAGE scoring higher than a GIBBO robot.

Look at this oblivious GIBBO clown's play at trick eight. ANY bridge player would win it, then cash three MORE diamonds, and finally take one of the two spades at the end. On the hand, after the play had gone as it did up to that point, East-West would end up taking one heart, one spade, and four diamonds, for a total of six East-West tricks. This would hold North-South to seven tricks, thereby defeating the NS contract of 2NT by one trick.

Instead, with GIBBO "defending", NS made an INCREDIBLE...ELEVEN (!!!) tricks, wrapping up THREE...OVERTRICKS! Instead of taking a total of six tricks, EW took only TWO!

How did this happen? Simple: When West led the four of diamonds at trick eight, East played his THREE (!!!) from his remaining KQJ103! Declarer South won his STIFF 7 (!!!), but not ONLY did East's ULTRA-M.O.R.O.N.I.C. duck give South an undeserved trick in diamonds - it ALSO gave him an ENTRY to his entryless (!!!) South hand, enabling him to now cash THREE HEART TRICKS.

But please, please,...PLEASE, o ye loyal defenders of and apologists for the execrable GIBBO robots, ...PLEASE keep reminding the world of how these fleabrained GIBBO twits are "better than most human bridge players".

https://www.bridgeba...S7%7Cpc%7CSQ%7C