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Takeout Double of A High Level Contract

#1 User is offline   jillboner 

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Posted 2020-September-25, 13:01

This not necessarily a bug.

The robots consider a double of any game contract to be for takeout. Actually a TOD should apply only if such bids are opening preempts.
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Posted 2020-September-25, 13:21

It is what it is.

GIB does not, and has not, ever played penalty doubles at any level.
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Posted 2020-September-25, 17:14

View Postjillboner, on 2020-September-25, 13:01, said:

This not necessarily a bug.

The robots consider a double of any game contract to be for takeout. Actually a TOD should apply only if such bids are opening preempts.

Take bidding like



4♥ is not an opening bid, and could be quite a good hand expecting 4♥ to make. Double is still for takeout.

To compensate, GIB will randomly pass takeout doubles which turns the double into penalty. The bad news is that the contract usually makes, frequently with doubled overtricks.
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