money bridge redoubling

[skilldave]

Would be nice if GIB was reprogrammed slightly, so it didn't decide to XX contracts with no extra values, or when no certainty the contract will make.

Would make the money bridge more relaxing :lol:

[bid_em_up]

ROFLMAO.

 

How true.....sad, but true.

[asdfg2k]

Is there a thread for GIB reprogramming? I have my favorites.

 

I can't remember the hand precisely, but it had to do with a delayed sac. The opp and his GIB bid to 4S vul in at least 3 rounds of bidding (that is, I have passed at least twice). I notice I have a fairly long club suit, not many values and am not vulnerable. So I trot out 5C. This is greeted with 6NT by my (partner?) GIB. Maybe it was an attempt to get to 7C undoubled. But the funny (?) thing is that if that were so, GIB didn't bid the expected 7C over the very expected double. Maybe GIB thought that since I didn't bid 7C over the very expected double of 6NT that I was therefore advertising my eager acceptance of 6NT doubled? Maybe redouble would have been SOS.

 

Then again, maybe GIB has a "punish partner" routine that I just happened to trip.

 

Moral of the story: do not trap pass playing money bridge. Your partner is likely to presume that your trap is based on something like an opening 2NT hand, rather than an opening 4C hand.

[EricK]

GIB has a fair number of bidding bugs. When Matt Ginsberg was still working on the program he would respond to such bug reports quite quickly. It was a shame when he had to stop. One of the last things I recall was that there was an issue with GIB's simulations not allowing for the possibility of a penalty double of its aggressive WJOs, so the simulations were making them out to be more effective thean they really were. I don't know if that ever got fixed.

[barmar]

I wonder why BBO has chosen to partner with GIB, rather than one of the Bridge programs that is still under active development? If GIB becomes more popular through BBO's use of it, can we hope for Matt to start working on it some more?