pilowsky

What I mean is that normally when you sit a table with a pick-up partner and agree to play 2/1 or SAYC or whatever, it generally includes some sort of weak 2♠ ♥. My original experience of playing in clubs was that my partner had to alert these calls as - say 6+ and less than an opening hand. In the online environment, the person making the bid does the alerting, so as long as I'm making a call that isn't going to damage my partner - like this one - then why not? The shape of the bid reminded me of the Cappelletti bids that GIB makes - except that GIB also does it with 4/5 major/minor,

If you mean tables in the Casual or Prime area, then: The numbers should be different. The score showing in the playing area is updated constantly as other players in BBO world play the hands (each hand gets played about 16 times before the result is final). This means that the result in the 'playing area' is the score that the four players at the table should be looking at. When a new player arrives, they will sometimes ask the person that started the table to 'reset' the score. This will not affect the History just score meter in the playing area. You can always 'refresh' the History by clicking the refresh button. Then you can see what has changed. Only the person that 'owns' the table can reset the score. Hope that helps.

I normally open 1NT on 14-18 range against GIB. So even though everyone else excoriates me for not bidding ♠ I'm with you. With this hand, after the ♠ were cleared and I still had 'cover' in the other suits it doesn't seem like a 'guess' to set about promoting the only remaining long suit to try and make the contract.

click on the trick counter - next to the bidding box!

Bidding shmidding. Why is it different in the two areas !!!!

Honestly, I'm not sure what sort of computer you have but I do know the feeling. Anyway, the post is not so much about the hand - as you rightly observed it was entirely the computers fault, I'll buy another one immediately, - no the main point of the post was about the difference in GIB bidding in the different parts of the Prime area. Actually, sometimes I bid quite well - sometimes I even manage to play reasonably OK - just not that often, unfortunately. Sometimes BBO even gives me a fraction of a masterpoint . I know right, how about that. There's no point in posting those hands - I wouldn't learn anything from them! Oh look, it just happened again...

Don't be coy - it may be a different game, but it is fun

I only discuss things with people that I know. I don't know who you are. This is my last comment on the matter with you.

The most amazing thing about this hand is that SR is playing against robots!!! OTH, GIB IME will bid Cappelletti 2 major with 4+ xxx shapes so long as the total points are OK. The algorithm seems to favour the major. GIB is apparently happy with whatever else it has so long as it has at least 4 in a major, at least 5 in a minor and at least a certain number of total points. Then, computer says YES. GIB is structured around the old-fashioned 'choose your own adventure' DOS arcade games.

I have no idea. But someone else did a similar thing to me once. The Director was Australia's number 1 player. He was impressed by the call. Why do you think it is unreasonable to know what the rest of the field did to inform your thinking about the result? Don't you examine the traveller at the end of a tournament?

Is the call a 'gross misstatement' of the hand? I suspect you didn't protest because you knew how far you would get!

So, what call did others make to achieve a better result?

WHAT'S YOUR CALL - take the poll. [hv=pc=n&s=sj7432h6dk74ckj96&d=n&v=e&b=9&a=p1d?]133|200[/hv] I was just playing a few hands in Prime against the robots after crashing in a daylong - again. When this hand came up. Since I started playing Bridge, I've noticed a lot of people bidding a weak 2 with a (SH/minors) 52/42 or a 51/43 hand shape or the other way round for ♥. In addition to the regular 6 of a suit. I've also noticed that the robots are happy to interfere Cappelletti-style with only 4 of a major on this type of hand shape. So I thought I'd have a go myself. This style of preempting seems excellent for online Bridge since the player bidding does the alerting. Anyway, here I'm playing at IMP's presumably against advanced GIB. The following auction occurs and the robots make 6♦ because I misdefend. So I saved the hand and moved to a teaching table in the Prime area to see if I could do better. This time GIB bids the hand completely differently! Instead of the 4♣ bid East bids 4♥. So, I move into the East seat and replicate the original bidding, and let GIB fight it out amongst itself. The result was not pretty. Remember the scene in that Aliens film when two big aliens kill the little one to … well, you get the idea. The people that didn't get in the way (or overcalled 1♠) allowed GIB to make its way happily to 3NT, 15 times. E.G. As an aside, a question for BBO is: are the teaching table robots on Prime, not advanced robots? If not why not? Since this may explain the different result that I got with the hand belonging to smerriman in the other post. Or are they something else again. : Marvin Gaye.

I would add to this that a lot depends on the context. Look up Abnormal Illness Behaviour. I didn't invent it, but I studied it very carefully. The idea, simply put, is that claiming a sick role for a disorder - say a cough or a cold - is appropriate in normal times, but not during the middle of a raging battle. Similarly, while it may be appropriate for some person to aver that men in dark shadows control the streets, or that it is safe for children to return to school when it isn't, maybe fine if that person is sitting on a barstool talking to themselves. It is a wholly different matter when that person is, just hypothetically speaking, the President of the United States of America, At that point it becomes, sociologically and politically speaking a monumental disaster.

Actually, they still exist. Unless you have not yet acquired object permanence

What you say is true Barry. It takes a great deal of experience to be able to detect the difference between trolling, madness, psychosis, inflammatory speech and so on. Trump, because of his constant public utterances, provides a wealth of clinical detail which is why so many psychiatrists and physicians have been willing to weigh in. The consensus favours derangement, not a genius. Clearly he is not completely psychotic. He can put sentences together fluently. He seems to be able to read from a teleprompter at the level of a 13-year-old child. The problem is the content. If someone walks into your office and in a calm voice says "Barry, I'm bored of life I'm going to kill myself". The appropriate response is not to say: Fair enough, "that's your right it's a free country". The stuff that is coming out of Trump's mouth is a 'danger to others' it is getting them killed. This is a technical medico-legal term for delusional content that should be cause for alarm. Whatever label one applies. It doesn't have anything to do with politics - or Bridge. It's life or death.

I'm going for 2NT. I want my partner to know that I have 15+. There seems to be a fashion these days to open a weak two on almost anything (the 'unknown opponents' line is a tease). GIB tends to preempt heavy. Players under 30 tend to preempt with nearly nothing. I don't know how to bid at all... Even if East has say AK6542, then odds are that QJT98763 will divide fairly between W and S. I have the other suits well stopped and if partner has ♠ stopped and something else to offer they can up the ante. Looking forward to the next instalment. Edit: And of course, everyone else is right and I'm wrong - this is the next hand that came up! Not quite the same, but this post was ringing in my eyes - as it were. I make -1.3 IMP's for 2NT+3 [hv=pc=n&s=sah5daqt763cakqt5&d=n&v=0&b=1&a=p2s2nppp]133|200[/hv] Double gets people to 3NT or 6♦

It turns out that the Danes actually have a name for what we call a danish, and that is Viennese bread (wienerbrød). So, they must call it Wienerbrød in Vienna, right? Nope. According to Wikipedia, the Viennese call them “Kopenhagener Plunder, referring to Copenhagen, or Dänischer Plunder“.

The term 'barometer' confused me for ages. In physiology, a baroreceptor is a receptor in the body that detects pressure. That's because 'baro-' in Latin means pressure. These days a common meaning of barometer is "something that measures fluctuations or changes" in anything - not just pressure. One great thing about barometer scoring is that a player can observe how they are tracking relative to the field during the competition. I don't know if it really helps in Bridge, In physical sports, it would be a bit like watching the field and being ready for that last burst of energy. In any event, at IMP's it means I can always try to pull one 'out of the hat" at the end if I am desperate to catch up. At matchpoints, it seems to be a more anodyne affair where the scores reach a plateau.

Almost... See timeline above

Bug seems to be gone now.

Interesting - affecting ACBL tourneys but not GALAXY RANGER at 1656...AEST

I have commented on this elsewhere.

I'll just wait till it's fixed then

You are wrong. It is well within my area of professional expertise.