juannt

"A shortlist of pretty random stuff"(?) It's the worst search function I've ever seen in my life and that's the most puzzling admission I think I'll ever see. A search function that's set up to generate "random stuff?" That's worse than completely useless; it's intentionally misleading--unless you're saying, like when responding to a bid query, that your only duty under The Laws is to state the agreement with the user (that he clicked "search," and you returned...something) but not actual substantive search results. Do you guys not have an actual database of user names, perhaps including real names, if provided by the account holder in the profile?

Why? Oversight?

In a BBO robot tournament, that is a tournament put on by BBO where one player has three bots at the table, the human player's hand always has the highest high-card point count. I've checked the system notes (http://www.bridgebase.com/doc/gib_system_notes.php) but don't see whether GIB accounts for that arrangement during such events. Naturally, the prudent human player knows his hand's high and takes that into account when bidding and playing. How about it? What does GIB know?