I continue to think highly of the bots, bu asabove and another below, lengthy auctions leading to choices at the 5/6/7 level do not seem to go well with them. Here is one from yesterday:
http://tinyurl.com/y784yoed6
making was worth +6.67 imps, 7
off 1 was -10.76 so that was a sizable swing in an 8 board match.
Of course my 2NT over the 2
opening was a bit odd but Bob Hamman supposedly said something advising that over a preempt we should go with NT if it seems at all plausible. Anyway, once I super accept the transfer to spades I think spades are trump and I have no idea why the bot would think I am holding the ace of hearts.
I find these things interesting from the Artificial Intelligence point of view. It's simply part of bridge that we sometimes have to hope for the best with a bid. My 2NT with a stiff club is an example. But in the later auction, a human would surely reason, after I bid 56!S over 6
, Ken could have bid 6
over 6
and did not so so, therefore he does not have first round control of hearts. This sort of reasoning, thinking of why partner did not make a call he could have made, is not doubt tough to program into a bot.
If anyone has an idea of what I might do with this hand over the 2
I will be happy to hear. Not enough shape for Leaping Michaels. I could double with the intention of bidding NT later, but doubling with a stiff club does not strike me as all that much better than NT with a stiff club. Doubling with the intent of then bidding diamonds overstates the diamonds, or so it seems to me.
I still like the bots. Everyone goes south, every now and then---Billy Joel --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdLPI6XhEN8