Introducing Bugs

[jmunday]

Seeing "errors" from GIB of late that have not occurred before, have the latest

fixes introduced other problems?

 

Most egregious example:

 

I've played enough to know most of GIB's potholes but came upon a trivial example

today where GIB made an inexplicable choice on a routine sequence that i've never

seen before.

 

Holding

 

QJ752

A8

JT94

K3

 

I opened 1N in 3rd seat, GIB transferred to spades (via 2H) and over 2S

instead of a routine 3N bid (or even a poor 3D choice) he bid 3S!

[iandayre]

I agree Jim that is a case where GIB has handled the auction correctly in the past. I wish BBO would be more specific about what improvement they were trying to make that caused it to go off the rails here.

[Antrax]

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Introducing new bugs due to unintended interaction with old code is very common in software, but I must admit this is a "book" sequence that seems like it shouldn't have been affected.