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MP or IMP, where is GIB stronger?

#1 User is offline   1eyedjack 

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Posted 2013-July-20, 12:19

Granted that in robot tourneys it is strictly the other humans against whom you are competing, I am nevertheless interested in opinions on whether GIB plays a stronger game at MP than at IMP, or vice versa, or too close to call.

Is there any way of measuring it? What say all y'all?

For what it's worth I personally think that its IMP game is stronger, but it is only gut feel.
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Posted 2013-July-20, 14:13

I rarely play with robots but robot simulations should help at MPs because of the importance of gain-frequency. Also robots' ability to keep focussed should help at pairs because each board is of equal importance. Nevertheless, MPs is a more testing game of skill, so I agree with 1eyedjack that they should do better at imps.
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Posted 2013-July-20, 21:07

LOL. Perhaps a better question is whether they even have different behavior in the different forms of the game.
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Posted 2013-July-20, 21:28

There are more factors involved in matchpoint games that can play a key role in the outcome than at IMPS. For example, correct defense that holds a hand to -620 as opposed to -650 is huge at matchpoints but is only worth 1 IMP at IMPs. While GIB is well programmed on many of the important decisions, there are a fair number of key factors at IMPs that GIB is not well programmed for.

Therefore, GIB is tougher at matchpoints than IMPs.
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