Major Pain

[uva72uva72]

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IMPs, ACBL robot individual

 

So I knew that the robot likes to bid 3 card ♠ suits, and particularly to introduce them for the first time at high levels. To that knowledge I can now add the fact that the robot will bid 3-card ♥ suits under no duress, and that, holding 3 cards in both majors, it will bid the weaker of the two.

 

My human partners and I have agreed that a 1♦ response to a take-out double categorically denies a 4-card major. So, in this sequence, my partner would have been free to bid 2♠ at his/her second turn to show a stopper there, and we would have reached 3NT.

 

My question is, shouldn't the system notes be modified to indicate where the robot will bid 3-card majors once they have been documented? There's an enormous difference between the promised 4+ and the delivered 9xx.

[Bbradley62]

My question is, shouldn't the system notes be modified to indicate where the robot will bid 3-card majors once they have been documented?

I think it would be much better to instruct GIB to not make this bid rather than document the fact that he does it.

[iandayre]

I agree BB, the 2H bid is nuts and should be eliminated. I would have bid 1NT, the call I had planned over 1S, over 1D as well.