[benellis58]

REMARKABLY stupid lead: the stiff 9 of spades. This would be dumb enough even out of context, but here he's leading a suit where dummy has shown five cards.

The "defence" that follows is as pathetic as the lead.

https://www.bridgeba...D9%7Cpc%7CC7%7C

[benellis58]

We scored 52.08 % for going down two in 4D. The STORY, though, is the GIB definition of 4D:

"4- clubs". That's NOT very helpful, GIB, especially since South bid four clubs right before North whipped out his 4D call! Does North have ZERO clubs...or does he have FOUR? You know, that just MIGHT make a difference (as anyone with a BRAIN could figure out).

"32- HCP". Well now, that REALLY narrows it down (chokes back laughter!). I mean, it's GREAT that we know he can't have 33, but could you be a TINY bit more specific than giving a point range of THIRTY-THREE? According to your USELESS joke of a statement, Mr. GIB, he COULD have...ZERO HCP, or he COULD have...THIRTY-TWO! You know, that disparity COULD make a difference in what the correct contract might be. (Okay, I cannot hold back the LAUGHTER any longer, because GIB definitions are the funniest things I have ever seen...in a very, VERY sick and twisted way!)

Twice rebiddable diamonds". Thanks. Good to know...but...uhh...HIS diamonds are KQ942 - certainly not BAD, but...uhh..."twice rebiddable"???

https://www.bridgeba...ST%7Cpc%7CS7%7C

[benellis58]

East wins his spade ace at trick two. Does he then play a CLUB, the suit his "partner" led? Of COURSE he doesn't. HE'S a GIBBO robot, so HE would rather throw himself into a trash compactor than EVER return his "partner's" suit. And just between you and me, I would be VERY happy if he DID throw himself into a trash compactor!

So what DOES he play to trick three? Easy, EASY question! He of COURSE plays...a second spade, because GIBBO robots LOVE to return DECLARER'S suit.

NS quickly take a total of 11 tricks. EW quickly score another complete ZERO to store in one of the many warehouses they rent for the SOLE purpose of housing their MASSIVE and ever-expanding collection of rock bottoms.

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

[benellis58]

Auction MANDATED by GIBBO, complete with stunningly bad GIB definitions:

South opens 1S in 4th, which is reasonable, but the GIB definition is annoying and dishonest. (Shock of shocks - NOT!) Annoying, because of the useless, insulting words it starts with: "Major-suit opening". Why do SO many (TOO many!) GIB definitions start with complete garbage like this? Dishonest, because it promises "11-21 HCP". although the robots OBVIOUSLY open certain TEN-point hands, as they did HERE. Would it be too difficult for GIB to at least inject some HONESTY into its pathetic definitions?

South's artificial 2D is an invitation to game. Although it happened to succeed on THIS random hand (due to a typically foolish GIBBO lead!), it's obviously VERY aggressive, considering that HE has a TEN-count and his PARTNER is a PASSED hand! And BTW, it didn't succeed at all tables: At my table and 40 others, 4S made exactly 10 tricks, but at 19 other tables it only made 9 (for down one), and at 5 others it only made 8 (for down 2).

Next: Over South's artificial invitation of 2D, North accepts. Fair enough. But since he accepts, why on Earth does he not simply leap to FOUR spades (since South ONLY invited and there is obviously no slam)? His actual bid of THREE spades is stupidly (what else?) and wastefully defined as "forcing". It would be FAR better to use 3S as passing the buck back to South, saying "I'm not good enough to unilaterally leap to FOUR spades, but I'm TOO good to merely sign off in TWO spades, so YOU decide". But such a USEFUL application would clearly be ANATHEMA to GIBBO, which seems to LOVE playing unworkable, antiquated, redundant nonsense as the core of its hopeless system.

South's 4S is defined as showing "12+ HCP". News flash, GIB: He has (only!)...TEN. You know, maybe...just MAYBE...it's LONG past the time to rewrite your PATHETIC definitions.

West's cowardly and poorly judged club lead allows the game to make. It would have had no play on a more RATIONAL heart lead...but who in his right mind would EVER accuse the contemptible GIBBO robots of being rational?

https://www.bridgeba...H2%7Cmc%7C10%7C

[benellis58]

This is a MANDATED auction, so GIBBO obviously RECOMMENDS it and thinks it's IDEAL.

Of course, since it's MANDATED by GIBBO, it's actually as ridiculous and pathetic as you would expect. The 2H call is HIGHLY questionable, and the 4H call is INSANE.

The hand was played 84 times. At 6 tables, the ridiculous 4S contract went down two tricks. At 67 tables, including mine, it went down three. At 11 tables, it went down four.

You know, GIBBO, maybe if a hand was played EIGHTY-FOUR times and the BEST result (and at ONLY a paltry SIX of the 84) was DOWN TWO, then MAYBE it wasn't a very good contract...and MAYBE it was a RIDICULOUSLY bad auction! AND...MAYBE GIBBO hasn't got the foggiest notion of how to bid!

https://www.bridgeba...HK%7Cpc%7CHJ%7C

[benellis58]

In a DECENT system (meaning something other than the antiquated, poorly constructed, illogical, wasteful, redundant claptrap that GIBBO uses), North would be able to show his heart stopper and suggest 3NT if South has a diamond stopper. This, of course, is WAY too hard for GIBBO. GIBBO rots.

BTW, note the STUPID use that GIBBO has for East's (insane) double of 3D, as described by the GIB definition of it. Note also that East does not even adhere to his own (silly) GIB definition. Finally, notice that this ludicrous treatment, in combination with East's insane decision to double, propels West into making the suicidal lead of the diamond ace.

GIBBO sucks pumice. It rots. It stinks. It is a total embarrassment. It is a blemish on the face of bridge. It should LONG ago have been tossed into the garbage.

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

[benellis58]

I think North's NORMAL call on this hand would be 3S, not 2S.

West makes a typically STUPID lead: his stiff trump. These GIBBO robots have no clue at all about how to play bridge. Please destroy them. Please replace them with DECENT robots.

https://www.bridgeba...C9%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

What a REMARKABLE 2S call by South in this MANDATED GIBBO auction. GIBBO proves that it has NO IDEA of how to bid, considering that it RECOMMENDS this LUDICROUS 2S call. On top of EVERYTHING else, if this dimwitted GIBBO bidder (because I assure you: it was NOT me!) wanted to bid spades, he should have done it at the ONE level. GIBBO is so BLINDINGLY stupid that it couldn't BEAR to bid ONE spade...but had NO trouble whatsoever bidding TWO spades...red against white...on a FOUR-bagger...in a LIVE auction...in DIRECT, NON-passout seat...opposite a SILENT partner...and facing two opponents who had BOTH shown values.

East's double is the usual GIBBO type that is made for absolutely NO reason and says NOTHING useful.

GIBBO proves time and time and time again that it is nothing but trash and that it belongs in a landfill...preferably on the dark side of the moon.

https://www.bridgeba...S5%7Cmc%7C11%7C

[benellis58]

Another imbecilic lead by another disgustingly braindead GIBBO robot:

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

[benellis58]

And...ANOTHER. Why do these sickening GIBBO jackasses LOVE to lead ENEMY suit? Well, perhaps the answer is: BECAUSE they are sickening GIBBO jackasses.

Note also further proof of what a pathetic JOKE the useless, illogical, antiquated GIBBO bidding system is. Look at North's stupid 2S call, the stupid definition, and the fact that the ignorant, undisciplined M.O.R.O.N. - as is so often the case - didn't even "obey" his own (stinking) GIB definition of 2S. Note also that South's 3S is ridiculously defined as a cue bid. In summary, note that EVERYTHING about GIB/GIBBO absolutely and totally rots. Why does BBO still use these pathetic, dismal GIBBO robots? Why haven't they been replaced by DECENT ones?

https://www.bridgeba...D2%7Cpc%7CHK%7C

[benellis58]

Although it LUCKILY happened to work out well on this random hand, North's laughable 2S call is an example of one of the NUMEROUS stupid philosophies the nauseating, contemptible GIBBO robots espouse: These insufferable jerks feel that they MUST "rescue" "partner" just because they have shortness in his suit. My disdain for GIB/GIBBO grows each and every day.

https://www.bridgeba...DJ%7Cpc%7CSJ%7C

[benellis58]

Frequent contributor OMARHEUM has sent two more hands exposing the massive ignorance and monumental incompetence of the always sickening and repulsive pieces of trash known as GIBBO robots. Here is the first:

He writes "I scored 63 % here when West made a takeout double of spades completely unprepared for clubs."

My comments:

Not only does the GIBBO robot in the West bid worse than many raw beginners, and not only does he display to the world that he has NO idea of what a takeout double is, but he is also too overwhelmingly stupid and undisciplined to even follow his own GIB definition. It says that his (ludicrous) double shows "2- spades". He has FOUR. It says that he promises "3-5 clubs". He has NONE. It says that he has "3-4 hearts". He has FIVE.

Meanwhile, the TYPICALLY pathetic GIB definition of 5C is "5+ clubs; 11 HCP; 12 total points". WHY, pray tell, should this bid show EXACTLY eleven HCP? And WHY should it show EXACTLY twelve "total" points? Both statements are COMPLETELY logic-free (as one would perhaps EXPECT from a GIB definition!). Add in the fact that GIB has no understanding whatsoever of "total" points. And: note that East does NOT possess the MAGICAL eleven HCP that GIB has INSANELY decreed that he requires; he has "only" nine HCP. As for "total" points, he has MORE than the MAGICAL, exact twelve that the piece of trash GIB definition has ridiculously claimed his call shows; his hand evaluates to roughly FIFTEEN "total" points...or at least it WOULD opposite a "partner" who actually knows what a takeout double is!

GIB/GIBBO is about as worthwhile as the grime that sticks to the soles of your shoes when you wander through an uncleaned maple syrup factory overwhelmed by armies of ants.

https://www.bridgeba...CH6%7Cmc%7C9%7C