Two humans kicked over the robots last night in Ireland Imp pairs

 Last night in the Ireland Imp Pairs we had a nice little game going with some decent players togging out. 

The top 4 places included Waterford champion William McKay,regular visitor to Ireland Congresses

pre Covid and during Covid Martin Garvey. Well known Galway duo Enda Glynn and Paul Scannell 

as well as Dave Ryan and Mary Roche in 4th place. 

However the main action took place in a different area of the event where 2 humans took annoyance 

with the human robot combinations and the 2 robots who acted as sitout replacements. 

Trick 1 Heart king won with Ace 

Trick 2 finesses club 8 losing to 9 

Trick 3 Diamond comes back Ace 

Trick 4 Cashes a high diamond 

Trick 5 Cashes Ace of Club

Trick 6 Sticks Eddie Macken  in with Club King 

At this stage Eddie and Harvey  started to make noises ...just small noises but they continued to play 

They finished off the next 3 boards with pinder1234 and the robot and next were drawn against

the pair of sitout replacement robots. 

This did not improve their mental states and their horses were feeling their angst. 

By the time they reached board 16 they had been skinned for almost 50 imps but for some 

reason it was Eamon and the robots that were taking the hit for this. These two are multiple Irish champions but feeling angst for getting endplayed by a robot is a little much. 

Boards 17-20 were against 2 humans so that was okay but unfortunately on board 21 a robot human 

partnership dared to approach their table. 

Our 2 chaps downed tools and refused to play 

Even my offer to partner one of them was turned down 

After 7 minutes I asked could I put in 2 subs... 

I probably irked them more by replacing them with 2 robots ..

Happily maitennis turned up and replaced one of the robots despite the massive red score.

All because a human could not bear to be endplayed by a robot. The humans claimed the robot pair

CHEETAHED ...

Funny thing is if a  human visualised and placed this endplay on another human he would be cheered 

from on high .. 

Its not unlike the great play that Carolann Cummins produced declaring 6Hs a couple of blogs ago. 

Actually playing against a robot that night ... The robot just clapped her. 

Reminds me of a time back in 1990s when Joe McHale partnering me in Kilkenny put an 

intra-finesse on Michael McDonagh and Eddie Fitzgerald and the 2 lads stopped in the middle of 

the play and clapped him ... 4H+1 .. Their team mate scored up 2H+1 

However the sportsmanship was present