awm Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 I've noticed on several occasions now that when I make a takeout double and GIB is 4-4 in an unbid major and an unbid minor, GIB will almost always bid the minor suit. I had an extreme example today: 1♣ - P - 3♣ - XP GIB had: ♠Axxx♥Kxxx♦xxxx♣x Guess what? GIB bid 3♦. Obviously there are many silly things that GIB does, but I have seen this action several different times in several different auctions now, making it a possible candidate for things to correct if anyone is working on improving GIB's bidding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 In that case I assume it just bids the cheapest suit. I would be more surprised if the following happened: 1♦ - P - 3♦ - XP - 4♣ with ♠ Axxx ♥ Kxxx ♦ x ♣ xxxx Also, was this matchpoints, IMPs, or total points? If you're in a partscore, the difference between minors and majors is generally negligible at IMPs or total points. I'd expect GIB (and players in general) to prefer majors at MP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 If BBO is going to take the reporting of GIB bugs (real or imagined) seriously, I think its time to start a new section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigpenz Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 If BBO is going to take the reporting of GIB bugs (real or imagined) seriously, I think its time to start a new section. I would like to see an actial area just for GIBI have been playing with just GIB for the last 3 months and it does take some getting used to the way GIB bids EG#1auction1♥ pass 1NT(forcing) pass2♣pass 3♥ all pass GIB had 14hcp ouch EG#2when GIB opens major and partner bids Forcing NTGIB usually bids 3 card minor even when holding 6 card major But i dont think anything will ever get done with GIB since the commercial product hasnt been updated since 2002 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickRW Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 If BBO is going to take the reporting of GIB bugs (real or imagined) seriously, I think its time to start a new section. I would like to see an actial area just for GIBI have been playing with just GIB for the last 3 months and it does take some getting used to the way GIB bids EG#1auction1♥ pass 1NT(forcing) pass2♣pass 3♥ all pass GIB had 14hcp ouch EG#2when GIB opens major and partner bids Forcing NTGIB usually bids 3 card minor even when holding 6 card major But i dont think anything will ever get done with GIB since the commercial product hasnt been updated since 2002 If it is any consolation to you GIBbers, I downloaded a copy of WBridge5 the other day (it won the last two computer champs) - it takes some getting used to too. The trouble with computer programs is they can1) follow rules (but the number of rules are truly enormous and tedious as there are milions and millions of possible bidding sequences)2) learn (but it takes thousands and thousands of expert examples for them to "learn" - and even then they have only learnt the truth according to one expert - "teaching" a new treatment or convention to a machine is hard)3) they can run simulations - but it seems they have a tendency for bidding for both hands when they do and you make one slight positive noise at them and you're in slam before you know where you are!) Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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