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Someone please fix this. GIB not taking defeating tricks vs slams

#1 User is offline   MrAce 

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Posted 2016-October-11, 04:17

GIB not taking defeating tricks vs slams. This started to happen recently. I had twice. At my table in hand 1, we already took a trick vs slam, declarer played a ♣ and GIB as 4th player in the play of this suit, ducked it. It was an advanced GIB that I rented for 1$ when my pd Aaron had to leave table.

Hand 2 was made by my opponents in instant GIB event. They bid 6 NT and doubled by GIB which holds 2 aces, on lead, but did not cash them.


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As you guys know I rarely complain about GIB. There are many other issues but not taking defeating trick in slams and inviting strong NT overcall with 10-11-12 hcp is pretty bad ones that I believe can be fixed easily.
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Posted 2016-October-11, 14:29

Hand 2 - I am shocked that the opening lead 4th from longest and strongest did not work out. I am going to have a talk with those bridge authors who recommend this lead. :)
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Posted 2016-October-13, 19:02

They have a fix to lead ace against 7NT, but I don't think there is one to automatically defeat small slams. It's a good idea that has been talked about before, and I suspect will at some point be implemented. It's just more complicated since there are so many more scenarios for 2 tricks than just "lead an ace", but it should still be doable.
Please let me know about any questions or interest or bug reports about GIB.
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Posted 2016-October-13, 19:02

They have a fix to lead ace against 7NT, but I don't think there is one to automatically defeat small slams. It's a good idea that has been talked about before, and I suspect will at some point be implemented. It's just more complicated since there are so many more scenarios for 2 tricks than just "lead an ace", but it should still be doable.
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Posted 2016-October-13, 20:11

View Postjdonn, on 2016-October-13, 19:02, said:

They have a fix to lead ace against 7NT, but I don't think there is one to automatically defeat small slams. It's a good idea that has been talked about before, and I suspect will at some point be implemented. It's just more complicated since there are so many more scenarios for 2 tricks than just "lead an ace", but it should still be doable.


Thank you for the reply.
I was more concerned when GIB declarer played a small, I followed small, and K played from dummy and GIB pd ducked its A, against slam, when we already took a trick and the A it ducked would be the setting trick.
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Posted 2016-October-13, 20:11

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