nathan2008

Dear all BBOers, I feel so guilty, so i come here to report myself. I am so sorry to tell all that i have cheated with my second id zhouhang32. I feel so sorry. Shame on me!!!! Now bbo has deleted my id. I am now using my first id: nathan2008. I promise to all that i won't do that again. Really stupid and no fun!!!! Please forgive me. I am a young people and now doing my PHD in mathematics (probability and statistics.) I started learning bridge in 2004 and soon fell in love with bridge. I began playing on bbo in 2008 (from my id!). Again, please forgive me for my bad behavoir. If you try to complain and attack on me, i won't say a word. It is indeed my fault. Young people always make stupid mistakes. Anyway i am brave enough to admit my mistakes. So please trust that i won't do that again. (One can't make the same mistake twice!!!!) Sorry for all if i hurt you with the old id. Now i must start a new life! Best wishes to all, Nathan.

yes... SJ is a real bug. Let us say "GIB miscliks SJ" lol. but for the play. GIB is playing west has DK+HA. So he wants to give an endplay to west.

yes, sorry... forget to bring my calculator.... I always need a calculator for counting HCP :(.

ok. Let me teach you. At first, I am sure that this is "best" hand style. Best hand = your pd cannot have more HCP than you. As you have only 12, you should know he has less than 12 HCP. You can wisely pass 3s lol. Secondly, I am sure that many "expert" players will bid 4s with north hand. In the end, don't you think it is a fantastic def from opps? I don't think every expert player will lead HA after 4H bid. You are just unlucky to have H not 3-3 break. Luck is also one part of bridge.

Because GIB "knows" east has 3 dia. If s finesse is not good, east will play a dia so that west can ruff. personally i would prefer north play SA on the first trick of S.

Q: Why not take the finesse? Because Gib is preventing dia 4-1 break. If dia is 4-1 and DK on the wrong side, he will go into trouble. Because dummy has only 1 entry. I would say it is a safe play by GIB. Q: Why not support hearts right away? Because GIB wanted to invite in Hearts, so he bids 2Nt first, no matter what u bid, he wanted to be 3H to invite.

I have a question about BBO staff. We all know that our father Fred created BBO. But a single man cannot do all these. He needs help. (what's more, he also has many matches to play!) Then we have staff from all over the world. Everyone has his job. Roland is in charge of vugraphe, Diana for tech support, Karen for accounting etc. I am wondering how Fred found all of these great people to help him :). ps: Anyway we must thank to all staff to make bbo so beautiful. I know curiosity kills the cat, but..... If you are embarrassed to answer my question, u can ignore it :). My guess is that all these people have been to USA (or studied in USA) and they know Fred or other coorperators.

very nice idea :). but i think u can hide your flag if u don't want to show your country and u don't like "Other". BTW, "other" flag is to welcome the people from other planets like Avatar :). Does it mean that BBO creators believe that there are livings on other planet? lol

Hi all, i find that recently you put robot reward 1$ every 4 mins. (It was 8 mins before). I think it is too many for us. So it becomes very difficult to have 20+ players. Now there are only about 10 players. Even we get a very good score, we can only win a few masterpoints :(. I am not sure whether others agree with me. :)

Robot Duplicate MP seems to be the most popular robot games. What is your favorite game? Can choose several answers

As u are the king of roboters, maybe u have noticed what i've said :).

wowwwwww..... u start to complain about GIB lol. Interesting. Don't think it is the first time u have met this kind of bidding..... But frankly speaking, if GIB had 4H, he would X 1s, so this 2h must be 3 cards, he just wants to play a little hehe.

ok. it is solved i think, bbo is really efficient!

because GIB only takes his own hand into account, he never checks opps' bidding i think:). Same case u will meet in the future. 1H(opp)-1nt(u)-pass-2D=(transfer H) :). then u have to play 2h against opps' 5-1 suit.

Hi all, these days my GIB is very slow.... Sometimes he doesn't play for more than 30 secs... I want to know whether u have the same problem. Or just my net is very slow? I know GIB needs 5 secs to simulate... but 30 secs is not normal i think :).

I wonder who are ACBL speedball TDs. Because they come from all over the world. I think most TDs are very good except ACBL_XX (XXXX from XXXX)... (My friends and I won't play ACBL if he is the TD.)

I find that the worst part of robot is the reaction after a t/o double. Robots always suppose i make a t/o double with 4414, so he bids very aggressively. Other parts are ok for me. After so many -200 or even -800 and -1100, i NEVER make a t/o double if i am vul lol, tired of -200.

yes... it is indeed a bug i think.

i am surprised that GIB didn't bid 1nt first and then jump 3s for invitation. but if u want to bid slam with this hand, it is really high level bridge. Because 4d=1- d, doesn't mean void. I admit that in real game, north might pass 4dX and south might XX to tell pd D void. Then slam on the way. That is not easy for GIB i suppose.

what do u want by bidding 2s? always 4h after 2h.. even with human

Reverse drury is not that popular... maybe one day we can choose conventions with GIB lol. what i think all tables have the same GIB, so if u have trouble in bidding this hand, others will also have i think. But if u can choose different conventions with GIB, maybe someone will have trouble, someone won't ,hehe

in fact, i am not a fan of sandwich NT (even against humans) only give opps more information about my hand and against top players, will give them a chance to X my 1nt and get 300 or 500...

nice play :) wd

I learned that part a few days ago. All 2x are nat. But as opps are GIB, in general, if u bid sandwich 1nt, in 90% case u have no game. (because opps have at least 11+6 hcp) i will pass with your hand.

Are u informatician ? :) You are so cleverrrrr