BunnyGo Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 3 "simple" bots. http://tinyurl.com/782ep5h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Just to make it clear you're talking about the discard of ♠10? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyGo Posted June 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Yes, sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Trick 5 is also absurd FWIW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahydra Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Trick 5 is also absurd FWIW. The club discard? Must be a bug :) Anyway, this is another case of "don't do things that can lose if there's a 100% alternative". Well, almost - the S4 is not an equal to the 8, but the point is the 10 is needed on some layouts (e.g. the actual one) whereas the 4 is never needed, not least because dummy has the five! ahydra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtK78 Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Bizarre hand. Declarer is cold for 11 tricks after the lead, and then declarer pitches one away. The bot "pitches" a spade trick and gets a diamond trick in return so the same 10 tricks are taken that declarer would always take after declarer pitched a trick. I often see the bot "pitch" a trick when it makes no difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwbarton Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 The club discard? Must be a bug :) Anyway, this is another case of "don't do things that can lose if there's a 100% alternative". Well, almost - the S4 is not an equal to the 8, but the point is the 10 is needed on some layouts (e.g. the actual one) whereas the 4 is never needed, not least because dummy has the five! ahydra Dummy is South. With 5 tricks remaining West can see that South can take 3 and West can take 2 whether West comes down to ♠Q10 or ♠Q ♦J. So I wouldn't consider the ♠10 discard a bug. (It would be nice if GIB didn't make "inhuman" plays like discarding the ♠10, but that's pretty low on my wishlist for GIB improvements!) The club discard on trick 5 looks like it might be a safety play against West having ♣J964, perhaps? Of course it would have been better to test clubs earlier but once the ♦Q is cashed the South hand is sort of squeezed into giving up a spade stopper or losing communication with the North hand—while the sixth club can never be the 9th trick. Hopefully the scoring was IMPs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloa513 Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Dummy is South. With 5 tricks remaining West can see that South can take 3 and West can take 2 whether West comes down to ♠Q10 or ♠Q ♦J. So I wouldn't consider the ♠10 discard a bug. (It would be nice if GIB didn't make "inhuman" plays like discarding the ♠10, but that's pretty low on my wishlist for GIB improvements!) The club discard on trick 5 looks like it might be a safety play against West having ♣J964, perhaps? Of course it would have been better to test clubs earlier but once the ♦Q is cashed the South hand is sort of squeezed into giving up a spade stopper or losing communication with the North hand—while the sixth club can never be the 9th trick. Hopefully the scoring was IMPs...Why not a heart discard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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