uday, on 2011-January-29, 20:53, said:
In your case,
Hand , you were in the middle of trick 9 ( 1 for NS, 8 for EW and one on the table).
Hi Uday,
it was in fact in the middle of trick 9, but EW had won only 7 tricks so far. Myhands shows that it had been adjusted to 5
♦-3. However, when I click on th GIB-button of the Handviewer-Movie, I am told that it will be -1 if North plays
♦4 and -2 otherwise. But the piece of software that provides the automatic adjustments thinks that -3 is the solution. This sounds like an error to me, though I have never experienced wrong automatic adjustments when playing myself.
BTW, in a case like that it is hard for a robot TD to decide what the fair adjustment should be. Maybe the robot just plays whatever is the best double-dummy action for this player. But I think when facing the decision most North players will ruff, because they cannot know that the
♠ holding of South, who opened
♠, is so weak.
If the robot TD just had given the hand to 4 GIB robots and let them finish it, I cannot believe that the result would have been -3. This would mean that the declarer GIB, who knows that all missing
♠ cards are in the South hand, makes severs mistakes. Can GIBs play so badly with so few cards left?
Karl