Two finesses

[Cascade]

Gib appears to have no memory.

 

Here is a hand where it had to play KJT opposite xxx.

 

If first finessed for the queen and then when it repeated the attack on this suit it played the king rather than repeating the finesse against the queen.

 

This happened in a robot tournament and 19 times GIB declared 4♥ for 19 failures. All of the several failures I have looked at were through this identical inferior play.

 

[hv=d=e&v=n&n=s865hqt8432d3ca93&w=sa97hj5daqt875ct4&e=sq432hkdk962cqj76&s=skjtha976dj4ck852]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv]

 

West North East South

 

 -     -     Pass  1♣

 1♦    1♥    3♦    3♥

 4♦    4♥    Pass  Pass

 Pass  

 

D2 DJ DA D3

D7 H8 D6 D4

S6 S4 SJ S7

C2 C4 CA C7

S8 S3 SK SA

S9 S5 SQ ST

CQ CK CT C3

HA HJ H3 HK

H9 H5 H4 C6

H7 D8 H2 D9

H6 DQ HQ S2

HT DK C8 DT

C9 CJ C5 D5

[cloa513]

That's because GIBs doesn't use a play plan- it simulates the total hand for each play and obviously simulates it separately so after successfully finessing it has no memory of the actual play rather it considers it more likely that the RHO has a queen of spades and therefore has to a singleton at that point for hand to be made.

[Yogeshdg]

That's because GIBs doesn't use a play plan- it simulates the total hand for each play and obviously simulates it separately so after successfully finessing it has no memory of the actual play rather it considers it more likely that the RHO has a queen of spades and therefore has to a singleton at that point for hand to be made.

This has nothing to do with memory. I am sure GIB too plays with some plan (however bad that might be ).

 

GIB's play is nothing unusual for a computer without nerves. After all how does he know if rho has ducked holding the spade queen? He simply misguessed and went down.But there was a better way of playing the hand.