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Robot gives away free overtricks at matchpoints when it realizes it cannot defeat the contract


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when the spade jack is lead at trick 10, it is 100% obvious

to take the queen and lead the club ten.

 

There can be no second choice whatsoever.

 

The robot however ducks! Giving up a trick.

 

This makes me believe that GIB enters a "Dont care" zone

when it realizes the contract cannot be beat, even at matchpoints.

 

http://tinyurl.com/zcv27gf

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It doesn't matter what north's last nonspade is. West wins q and leads club. If north discards then west wins trick 12. If north ruffs then west wins trick 13. OP is correct. There is no simulation where west ducking does not concede a trick

Yes, any (reasonable) human would have played as you say. But we all (should) know that this is not how GIB approaches the problem. GIB runs simulations to determine likelihoods of various holdings, and if his sample size is too small, weird things can happen.

 

But, I wonder whether the 2 bid should preclude the possibility that North has exactly 5 spades and 4 hearts.

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At the 3 card ending the following information is available to West - only based on the actual play

 

North has a singleton club (He dropped a at trick 3)

North has a least 3 diamonds (He followed 3 rounds)

North started with 3 s as he ruffed a in trick 10

North started with exactly 5 s, neither partner nor dummy could follow the third round of spades

 

So the actual situation is 100 % known

 

So there must be a flaw in the GIB software

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Use {hv=http://www.bridgebase.com/etcetcetc}400|300{/hv} but square brackets instead of curly ones.

 

And yes, wow.

 

edit: wow squared!! I didn't even see the play in hearts. wtf

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