Wozness Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 My friend and I have been playing on BBO for quite a while now. We have always been satisfied with the level of expertise of the Bots, no real complaints, the odd glitch, but lately the Bots have been doing some very strange and stupid things. I had one hand today where 7 tables made a 3NT, 4 didnt (my bot included). And I have seen this many times in the past few months. The bots are also overbidding, going totally overboard. My friend and I also came across a number of examples where 10 or more tables made the contract, and we get 0%, failing. We could see absolutely no reason why, as the tricks we lost could not possibly be won ? Until we looked at the other hands, and found that a different suit lead had occurred. On one hand up to 20 people had made the contract, we were the only one that failed. The Advanced Bots are making the crazy overbids. Is BBO in the process of testing a new version of the bots ? In which case, I work in IT, and I understand how programs can go wrong inadvertently. But its getting pretty bad now. Any Admin, please feel free to take a look at some of my hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 If the bots are bidding and playing terribly, they are functioning as normal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 My friend and I have been playing on BBO for quite a while now. We have always been satisfied with the level of expertise of the Bots, no real complaints, the odd glitch, but lately the Bots have been doing some very strange and stupid things. I had one hand today where 7 tables made a 3NT, 4 didnt (my bot included). And I have seen this many times in the past few months. The bots are also overbidding, going totally overboard. My friend and I also came across a number of examples where 10 or more tables made the contract, and we get 0%, failing. We could see absolutely no reason why, as the tricks we lost could not possibly be won ? Until we looked at the other hands, and found that a different suit lead had occurred. On one hand up to 20 people had made the contract, we were the only one that failed. The Advanced Bots are making the crazy overbids. Is BBO in the process of testing a new version of the bots ? In which case, I work in IT, and I understand how programs can go wrong inadvertently. But its getting pretty bad now. Any Admin, please feel free to take a look at some of my hands. Put some hands up, maybe you bid contracts differently changing the lead. Maybe the bots weren't overbidding, maybe the system was strange and your bids showed more than you thought. Most likely the bots were just bad, there have been some strange things happening recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnu Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 Any Admin, please feel free to take a look at some of my hands.Even if there was a BBO programmer who would look at bugs, they would never have the time to search through all of your hands and try to figure out what hands you are talking about. Export the questionable hands and post a link to them (or display them directly in your post, you'll have to search to find out how). Even then, don't expect any resolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilowsky Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 On the plus side, you have a friend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama3347 Posted September 27, 2020 Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 How to get prime membership on bbo? Can anyone enlighten me?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama3347 Posted September 27, 2020 Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 My tournament completion rate is poor. Because I have been leaving some stand alone matches like challengers etc midway. How to improve this rating or get it condoned as a one time concession? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama3347 Posted September 27, 2020 Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 Put some hands up, maybe you bid contracts differently changing the lead. Maybe the bots weren't overbidding, maybe the system was strange and your bids showed more than you thought. Most likely the bots were just bad, there have been some strange things happening recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama3347 Posted September 27, 2020 Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 Put some hands up, maybe you bid contracts differently changing the lead. Maybe the bots weren't overbidding, maybe the system was strange and your bids showed more than you thought. Most likely the bots were just bad, there have been some strange things happening recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama3347 Posted September 27, 2020 Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 I find bots going off the way whenever I bid unconventional. Discarding affects bots’ table play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerriman Posted September 27, 2020 Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 My tournament completion rate is poor. Because I have been leaving some stand alone matches like challengers etc midway. How to improve this rating or get it condoned as a one time concession?Challenges / daylongs, any other one-player tournament do not count towards your TCR. The only ones which do are those that negatively impact other human players; the only way to improve it is to not leave such tournaments before they are finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wozness Posted September 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 Lol, mucho Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nudnikbp Posted September 27, 2020 Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 Are you playing with standard or advanced robots? You have to pay a card fee to play with the advanced robots. The advanced robots play better, not to be confused with perfectly. I'd recommend paying .39 to play an eight-deal BBO daylong tournament with the advanced robots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilowsky Posted September 27, 2020 Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 Are you playing with standard or advanced robots? You have to pay a card fee to play with the advanced robots. The advanced robots play better, not to be confused with perfectly. I'd recommend paying .39 to play an eight-deal BBO daylong tournament with the advanced robots. If you want to play with advanced robots join the prime area. You can bang out hands endlessly for $4.99/month (IMP's or MP's) and get a free masterpointed 12 board weekly tournament. BUT make sure you read the GIB system notes.Or you'll definitely blow your dough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAMMA57309 Posted September 27, 2020 Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 I'm not the OP but I have also been noticing this. Here's an example hand from yesterday where the bot simultaneously denied our fit while lying about the length of their suit. https://tinyurl.com/y4e5wby5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP7601 Posted September 27, 2020 Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 I'm not the OP but I have also been noticing this. Here's an example hand from yesterday where the bot simultaneously denied our fit while lying about the length of their suit. https://tinyurl.com/y4e5wby5 Your hand looks like the robot was programmed to think "there's no game because my partner is a passed hand, so let's get out at a contract below 2NT", but was NOT programmed to think "I can pass this non-GF 2/1" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thadjcole Posted September 28, 2020 Report Share Posted September 28, 2020 yes they are malfunctioning. Twice tonight ,while on defense, the bots have ruffed my good trick to blow a trick on defense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilowsky Posted September 28, 2020 Report Share Posted September 28, 2020 It's mainly the West robot that malfunctions. The others are pretty good, although they do take them out periodically for maintenance and put in a substitute human player.Some of the substitute human players don't know the system very well. That could be the cause of your problem.To be fair the robots have been in service for many years. It's hardly surprising that they're getting a bit tired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted September 28, 2020 Report Share Posted September 28, 2020 There have been no changes to the robots. We always announce it when we upgrade the robots. Very little robot development has been going on since the pandemic, we've been too busy increasing capacity and adding features for NBOs and clubs to move online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilowsky Posted September 28, 2020 Report Share Posted September 28, 2020 There have been no changes to the robots. We always announce it when we upgrade the robots. Very little robot development has been going on since the pandemic, we've been too busy increasing capacity and adding features for NBOs and clubs to move online. Really? Even the West robot? Shame on you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnu Posted September 28, 2020 Report Share Posted September 28, 2020 Very little robot development has been going on since the pandemic, we've been too busy increasing capacity and adding features for NBOs and clubs to move online.Very little robot development was going on before the pandemic because of development of the HTML5 version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted October 3, 2020 Report Share Posted October 3, 2020 Very little robot development was going on before the pandemic because of development of the HTML5 version.Actually that wasn't an issue, as there was no overlap in the programmer resources. But the robot programmer has been involved in other projects since the pandemic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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