GIB respneds over capp interference

[peaceman]

Had an interesting GIB experience on January 1st, playing with 3 bots.

 

I think it was board 39.

 

I opened 1 NT. LHO bid 2 clubs, capp. Pard passed & over the 2 di relay I bid my nice 5 card heart suit. LHO passed.

 

Pard bid 3 clubs, which was infoed as natural, so I passed.

 

Pard actually had an Ace, a King, 4 small clubs & 4 small hrts, so I think was trying to make a cuebid of some sort, in order to show constructive values perhaps? Maybe pard assumes a new suit at the three level should be forcing? An obvious fit bid perhaps? Wasn't obvious to me. A direct raise to 3 or 4 hrts would have been the normal action, I think.

[JoAnneM]

One thing I have noticed playing with the robots - they will never figure out that you might have been bidding out of system, that you might have made a mistake and are trying to correct it, or that you are just trying to place a contract.

 

In the GIB system notes it says that they do not open 1NT with a five-card major, and they certainly don't make any allowance for you to do so either. I have been burned several times. I don't know what the GIB was trying to do this time, but you can always click on the bid and it will tell you what it thinks it is doing. That might not be right either. :)

[peaceman]

While i don't necessarily think it should take my suit as five cards (although it should be) it ought to take it as natural, other meanings being completely impossible. Therefore it should raise or pass. It did offer an explanation of its bid -- natural -- in a suit which was equivalent to its hearts, at one level higher....

 

Surely the default meaning of any very odd sequence ought to be pard is bidding a natural suit?

 

I think the programming got confused by the capp somehow. Over a natural two clubs, the cuebid is clearly a game try in hrts with the hand pard had.