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Hi Limey, All GIBs run on the machine of the table host. The host may change thinking time and thus cripple the bots. By the way, that might make using bots in a tournament impossible or inappropriate. Vlado

Hi, I guess, a deluge of questions will pore over Fred after GIBs enter the play. Fred can't say much about the bridge behavior of the bots and can hardly do anything. The author is Matt Ginsberg, and he's not active (on GIB). Arguably, _all_ possible questions have already been discussed in the GIB forum at http://lists.gibware.com/pipermail/discuss/ Try to search your question there. For example, the fast play of singletons was discussed for more than 1/2 year, various tricks were tested in 3-4 GIB versions, and no feasible solution was found... A few GIB features that will raise not one brow and were not solved during GIB's active development: - discarding of high spots; - nebulous signalling; - jumping to slams without control asking; - long thinking on apparent non-issues; - generally slow bidding and play (if you want it to play better). Much of the above is rooted in the approach of Matt who put the emphasis on _simulations_ both in card play and bidding as opposed to _external_ bridge wisdom, i.e. expert bridge experience programmed as rules. That being said, I believe GIB will make a formidable adversary for the _advanced_ player and less at BBO. If Fred adjusts the interface to show meanings of the human partner bids before they are made, GIB will be also a strong partner. Mind that GIB is launched and plays on _your_ PC, not on the server. Thus its play level depends on your local power. Try to give GIB as much time as you can bear :lol:. Vlado

at this moment, I can see about 10 tables at BBO Main Club playing with GIBs. I played about an hour this morning. You go to the Main Club, set new table, press GIB, then what? Vlado P.S. GIB's exe is running on YOUR computer, check processes on your PC.

A, here is the proper place. Sorry for reposting (from GIB Question): The above was enough to clarify what is going with GIB. Besides, it makes clear that BBO (Fred/Uday...) has no relation to inner workings of GIB. Do not expect from them to do a thing if GIB jumps to 6 and 7 level without control asking ... (and I have reasons to believe that GIB-BBO will do this more often than your home pet GIB). Now perhaps is the time to open a thread "GIB at BBO" in view of Fred's announcement about BBO 4.3.5 beta. An important interface feature that I did not find in BBO is asking for the meaning of my own bid (i.e. how GIB understands it). This is the right click on the bidding box in the original GIB. Playing with GIB as a partner without this feature makes little sence. Also, in the beta version, I could not ask for GIB's hint but may be this was just not activated. Vlado (_vlado on BBO)

The above was enough to clarify what is going with GIB. Besides, it makes clear that BBO (Fred/Uday...) has no relation to inner workings of GIB. Do not expect from them to do a thing if GIB jumps to 6 and 7 level without control asking ... (and I have reasons to believe that GIB-BBO will do this more often than your home pet GIB). Now perhaps is the time to open a thread "GIB at BBO" in view of Fred's announcement about BBO 4.3.5 beta. An important interface feature that I did not find in BBO is asking for the meaning of my own bid (i.e. how GIB understands it). This is the right click on the bidding box in the original GIB. Playing with GIB as a partner without this feature makes little sence. Also, in the beta version, I could not ask for GIB's hint but may be this was just not activated. Vlado (_vlado on BBO)