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After setting up the table (which can be a Bidding table if you only want to practice bidding, where basic robots are free; Teaching if you want to play the hands as well), tap on the menu then Deal Source. You can do basic options on HCP / suit lengths by clicking on Constraints, or more advanced ones by clicking on Advanced, checking the dealer input box, and entering something like: condition clubs(north)==4 and hcp(north)==15 (there's a link to the syntax notes). Once done, close and redeal.

It's even cuter when the 8 of clubs is a small trump; then you have a proper trump coup but when East ruffs high, you underruff. Don't think it has a name though other than just a trump endplay.

Daylong have increased from 39c in 2019 to 42c in 2022.. unless I'm missing something, that's actually less than the inflation rate. It has been proven over and over again that your last sentence is not true, just confirmation bias.

Works fine in Chrome for me. There's also nothing in the code that makes the link open in a new tab; perhaps you have some add-on or similar that forces all links to open in new tabs. (Right clicking the link and asking it to open in a new tab will bypass the popup and take you to the wrong page).

You've likely got some setting in your browser that is blocking popups. If you right click on the Movie link and choose inspect, you'll see the link has onclick="hv_popuplin('xxx');this.style.color='red';return false;" That should result in a popup with the URL https://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?bbo=y&lin=xxx, which is the one to save.

Basic GIB typically accepts just with a maximum HCP (and of course, it doesn't count points for length), which is too conservative. Advanced GIB should theoretically be better than humans at deciding when to accept (assuming it's allowed to simulate here, which it should).

One of the main goals of HELLO is to get partner to be declarer so that the 1NT bidder has to make an opening lead away from their values. While you can play whatever you like in balancing seat, doing so would achieve the complete opposite..

For those unfamiliar with GIB, North will bid exactly as shown with Qxxx xxx - xxxxxx. As apollo1201 suspected, South has shown 20+ points and GIB will always penalise based on its partner's hand and combined points even with a trump void. Highly likely (especially given the fact it's a forum post) that 6♦ will be cold and 6♠ will beat it, but of course it's ludicrous to bid it. Just as it's ludicrous to analyse this auction as if it were real bridge :)

Based on the auction, North is declarer. But the OP also says West led; I'm guessing that's the more likely error..

You mean East, right? If West has QJx of spades, they can guarantee beating the contract by playing high. So you assume they don't have that which means your only hope is to drop the QJ offside. But then West knows you know that, so will play low from QJx so that you fail in those cases after all. But you know West knows you know that, so.. .. if I calculate right, I think West's best strategy is to play low 1/3 of the time they have QJx, and then it's a coin flip for South.

For reference, I figured out what was going wrong. The optimal defense (at least according to Suitplay) is for East to duck the first round, so Jxx - Axx is never counted as a winning position. So if East wins the Ace you have to play low on the second round to cover East having both A or AJ stiff. Whether or not that's how you'd treat it in real life is an interesting question I may explore further..

It's saved automatically by your browser in its local storage. This (unlike cookies) should persistent indefinitely. So if it's not persisting, you likely have some custom browser add-on or security program which is overriding the normal browser behavior and clearing it.

While there are times it does it for no reason, most of the time it's because it assumes other players at the table are playing the same bidding system, interprets the bids accordingly, and won't believe for a moment that you don't have the points / shape you promised (thus assuming you must have cards that you don't, and then thinking what it throws is therefore irrelevant).

Well, they're also marked as MP-best; surely the purpose of the program is to tell you what line to take based on each possible result of earlier tricks. Is it that the actual best line happens to be one of the ones that it throws out prior to showing you the results? You'd think it would be able to retain the MP-best line at least, but that's all I can think of..

If I enter this card combination into Suitplay: KQT76 53 it first tells me there are more than 26 possible strategies(?!), and only some will be shown. If I then take one of the strategies for 4 tricks, and step through - say, 3-4-Q-A, 5-2 and it tells me to insert the 6 or 7, guaranteeing failure. Anyone seen something like this before?

Your best shot is to bid 3♠; if GIB bids 4♥ (or cuebids), bid 4♠ (or whatever the cheapest control is). GIB loves to bid Blackwood, and passing it at least gives you hope. This should be in the GIB forum though..

You're not doing anything wrong. Daylongs / challenges don't appear in MyHands, only in the Recent Tournaments section of your history that you see when logging into BBO, or if you click the Recent Tournaments link at the top of the MyHands page. Google considers Robot Rebate a form of 'gambling' and thus doesn't allow BBO to include it in the app.

Other than just giving you the exact solution, there isn't really much to this problem other than what is stated in the provided solution. Perhaps you could outline what approaches you've been trying?

Well, all you have to go on is the reason Hawke provided the court. Where he specifically noted the error on the travel document, but that it was considered minor and not the reason he came to his decision. And also specifically stated at the start that he was basing the whole document on the assumption that Novak had a medical reason to not get vaccinated and had entered the country lawfully.

This isn't true. He was deported because it was decided it was not in the public's best interest for him to be in the country. The government lawyers gave up on arguing any illegality of the visa (they basically conceded that part was legal), instead just exercising the minister's right to remove him solely on health and good order grounds.

No problem. The aspect I'm referring to is all handled by javascript / your browser cache, so all runs locally without any ingoing or outgoing connections (indeed, can be replicated after loading the login screen then disconnecting from the internet completely).

Haven't heard of that one before :) What about if partner continues with 3NT? Just 4NT quantitative?

Even if there was a serious error (I don't think it's even remotely close), letting the score stand wouldn't be the appropriate ruling would it? N/S would have their score adjusted based on how the bidding would have gone without UI, and E/W would also be adjusted based on that score minus how much they lost for the serious error.

It's not time or LAN based, so what you are describing is unrelated.

Log into BridgeBase, then open developer tools, and look at the Network section. There are 16 SVG files which are repeatedly requested. If you do nothing, then every 5 seconds or so, the full set of 16 is re-requested 2 or 3 times. If you start moving your mouse anywhere within the window this is amplified - in 10-15 seconds you're quickly up to over a thousand SVG requests. These are served from the browser cache, so it's not actually re-downloading the image every time. But the site asking the browser to fetch information from its cache thousands of times in a short period is a sign of something being very, very wrong. Video demo attached - watch the request count as the bottom left as first I do nothing, and then I start moving the mouse - with Network Tools open my browser already gets very laggy just doing that, so the request count hangs for a bit before quickly jumping up to 1000 then 1400. Note this won't just be about SVGs; if it's requesting SVGs then no doubt it's doing lots of other HTML processing way more than it should be. At the very least, some sort of throttling on mouse movement could be put in place (it's as if every pixel of mouse movement generates a full rebuild of the HTML), but I think the issue lies much deeper.. (This probably explains why the site can be extremely laggy at times, especially in games like Robot Reward where you're trying to click cards as fast as possible, which can often result in the whole screen hanging / cards getting out of place). (Tested on Firefox 96.0.1, Windows 10)