wbartley

https://tinyurl.com/2f85ahdu It isn't end-played or anything if it wins a diamond trick. Anyone?

https://tinyurl.com/2f85ahdu It isn't end-played or anything if it wins a diamond trick. Anyone?

https://tinyurl.com/22earn64 Anyone have a plausible explanation for this?

https://tinyurl.com/2jfxaz9n I realize I should have made the contract but this has to be a database bug, yes? I'm going to have to make five clubs to justify not bidding game.

GIB has pandemic fatigue. It's been eating way too much takeout and has decided, "No more takeout!" https://tinyurl.com/2dpplg6k

Are you saying that the robot bids differently when it has a robot partner? Because in OP's example, the robot passed its partner's 2S bid.

https://tinyurl.com/2dj34tag This will teach me to try to reach cold slams.

I wouldn't preempt with this hand. Too much defense. But given your preamble, I'm going with 2S.

Why pass? I'm reminded of a question often asked of Richard Dawkins. "What if you're wrong?" His usual response is "What if YOU'RE wrong?" Both passing and bidding have obvious risks associated with them. What are the possible risks of passing? 1. You might miss game if the hand gets passed out. I suspect, though I'm not sure, that simulations will show game is unlikely when this happens. 2. You might go down, undoubled, in a 5-1 fit when you can make some other part score. However, when playing five card majors, your partner's MINIMUM number of spades is 5. When you hold a singleton spade, I'm pretty sure partner's average number of spades is closer to six than it is to five. What are the possible risks of bidding 1NT? 1. Your partner may have a strong hand and jump the level of the bidding into a contract your side cannot make. There's a non-zero chance you will be doubled if you get too high. 2. You give up the chance of being able to defend. The answer to whether or not to bid is anything but obvious.

The robot bidding changes once in a while. Whether it is improving is debatable.

https://tinyurl.com/yjhuqgxu Something is completely haywire with GIB here. I see perhaps why nobody has replied. I'm South here and the robot was North. When the hand is displayed, it had switched me to be declarer but I was actually South. I made a two suited takeout double and the robot, holding four hearts, opted to bid 1NT without a spade stopper.

It's mostly that the level of play online (not just in free tournaments) is abysmal. This results in a greater standard deviation of results. Combine that with the few number of boards and you end up with what you see.

https://tinyurl.com/yforv43a What is a poor human to do?

South opened at all the other tables?

I expect the robot to bid 3H after 2N, like any sensible player would do.

It shouldn't be too hard to sum up the minimum length requirements in a proposed bid explanation prior to displaying it and if it's greater than 13, print a suicide note and exit gracefully.

We all know by now that there's not much point in doubling for business, even in most obvious penalty situations when playing with GIB. But did you know that you also shouldn't double for takeout? https://tinyurl.com/yz869wg9

This is from today's two day survivor. I challenge you to find a worse example of hand evaluation. https://tinyurl.com/yh4gzwc9

https://tinyurl.com/y8m9kcev It's surprising how often the bot has bidding misunderstandings with itself, even at such a low level of the bidding.

Whatever the rule is that tells GIB to bid 2H with that hand should be eradicated from the system and the programmer who entered it should be taken out and flogged, publicly.

If my hand is indeed limited to 21 then that's all the more reason for GIB to bid 3♦. If it's going to pass 2NT, it should at least have the courtesy to bid 3! I challenge you to produce a 19-21 point hand matching my bidding on this auction that makes 2N opposite the given hand but doesn't make 3N. Passing 2N with essentially a zero count and 6-4 in the red suits is ridiculous.

https://tinyurl.com/y74e2qfg This is the sort of thing that makes me want to stop playing with robots. Now, if only there were some humans who could follow suit.

I suppose I might have had a worse hand than a balanced 12 count with two defensive tricks. Maybe I should have bid a slam.

https://tinyurl.com/yxur2y62 I'm not sure which bid is funnier, 3♣ or 4♣

Although 5S was rather pessimistic by North, South bears the brunt of the responsibility. North is almost certainly void in hearts so both of those aces are working. 4S was a gross underbid. 5H or even 4N make more sense. Once South survived bidding 4S, 6D over 5S might still get you to the grand slam here.