[steve2005]

virgosrock, on 2017-December-01, 15:50, said:

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This is not best example but this is a common situation.
Here player in balance seat bids 3♦ with less than the 10 points promised.
3♦ may not have been a good bid but it is unusual to be right to sell out.
So inevitably you balance with less than 10 points and Gib hangs you.
Gib's programming should recognise that balancing occurs with less values possibly intending to go down.
At lower level of bidding you can even construct situations where it is correct to balance on almost nothing.

[virgosrock]

steve2005, on 2017-December-02, 19:17, said:

This is not best example but this is a common situation.
Here player in balance seat bids 3♦ with less than the 10 points promised.
3♦ may not have been a good bid but it is unusual to be right to sell out.
So inevitably you balance with less than 10 points and Gib hangs you.
Gib's programming should recognise that balancing occurs with less values possibly intending to go down.
At lower level of bidding you can even construct situations where it is correct to balance on almost nothing.

Also the negative inference that partner did not bid 2D over 2C so partner cannot have 10+ "points". Horribly programmed for bidding.

vrock

[steve2005]

virgosrock, on 2017-December-02, 20:13, said:

Also the negative inference that partner did not bid 2D over 2C so partner cannot have 10+ "points". Horribly programmed for bidding.

vrock

Unfortunately I don't have an example but there are situations was some have passed a couple times and if they bid at the 5-level somehow they have a massive hand like 18 pts. Obviously they can't and are planning on going down.

[virgosrock]

steve2005, on 2017-December-03, 09:43, said:

Unfortunately I don't have an example but there are situations was some have passed a couple times and if they bid at the 5-level somehow they have a massive hand like 18 pts. Obviously they can't and are planning on going down.

THose situations would be outliers and I don't think GIBBO can/should handle them.

vrock