Senior_Kibitzer
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I think that if you need to ask, you need to ask. I can understand your reluctance in that their explanation provides UI to their partner which they should then avoid using, but that they might use and you might then have difficulty in…
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I have even come across: "Please could you explain the alerted bid?"
"Why? Are you intending to bid?"Player education is like painting the Forth Bridge!
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Thanks, James. You could probably tell that that was also my thinking.
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The policy of always asking could be fraught as some players who say they always ask don't always remember to ask. But that's a different matter to what I'm wittering about in my OP, which are two actual rulings. Let's say that South puts the ar…
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A meaning attributable to the 1C overcall is that the offender thought he was opening 1C, which just happened to be the case. (The question in the OP was originally posted in another forum. The board itself was played at a club session somewhere …
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The obvious answer is that for a Mitchell movement, you can't have a single winning pair unless you do introduce an arrow-switch. I don't believe that there is a mathematically perfect movement, but all the generally recognised movemen…
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I'll treat the use by Player A of the "B" word as being outside the scope of this thread! The best that Player A can do in the way of claiming a "mechanical error" is to assert that he had accidentally dropped his card, but as he playe…
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That depends on how you look at it. Some calls can be "inadmissible" or they can constitute a breach of the Laws. And so on and so on.
"Irregular" calls happen, and the Laws (and sometimes the Regulations) tell us how to procee…
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As Vix says, if a player with the South hand in the OP were to open 1S, I would also be quite prepared to accept a claim by the player that he intended to psyche. Clearly the purpose of the EBU Regulations here is not to prevent psyching but to p…
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The 1H opening in the OP might be a deviation from agreement, but I am not rolling over and accepting such a plea from the South player without inquiring, and I start looking for evidence of a non-permitted agreement by asking South why he opened…
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Did East really say "No information" or did he say "No agreement"? If East had not alerted the 3NT, I would take "No agreement" to mean no agreement that it should be anything other than to suggest playing in 3NT. If called, I would ask West why …
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Thanks, Robin. :)))
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I had 10.5 tables for Sheffield BC's New Years Day Swiss Pairs. With thanks to all the above contributors to this hread, the event went without any problems at all.
Just one very small observation: As it happened, I and my partner started…
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I normally go to some trouble to ensure an even number of pairs by having a standby pair, but that will be too fraught when I run my next club Swiss Pairs as I will be away until the day itself. So, let's say that I get 19 pairs for 5 rounds of 6…
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Did East actually say that he wanted to get in the way? Did East actually try to claim that his opening was a psyche? I'd be asking East for myself why he opened 1H. I would expect East to argue that his opening was a perfectly reasona…
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"The use of VPs in matches of fewer than 5 boards is not recommended" - White Book 3.1.1
There is an alternative suggestion should you prefer, which is to limit the IMPs for a team that wins a match.
When I run Multiple Teams even…
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I'm a little surprised that declarer tolerates such a dummy display. If I understand the Opening Post correctly, declarer is looking at all the suit symbols and designations upside down.
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We need to consider in what way has anyone used UI.
Presumably 2NT in this sequence showed the minors. It looks like East intended to bid 2NT and then realised it wouldn't be natural, but showing the minors. Was it alerted before the atte…
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It's Law 7C.
If players need to enter opening leads, it can help to identify where a rotation of the hands (mis-boarding) has occurred, and that can help to identify culprits if you don't catch them transgressing Law 7C anyway!
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Being not sure of partner's bid and having no agreement are not necessarily the same thing. The original post was about having no agreement.
If you can't remember whether you have an agreement about partner's call, or if you kn…
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Yes, alert the 3C bid as it may well not be natural. When asked, I would suggest: "We have agreed to play Red Suit Transfers but have no agreements on breaking transfers. Partner's bid clearly shows four spades and 14 HCP but we haven't agreed wh…
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It amazes me how often I get called Brian!
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Are you saying that the board was not played at all at the last three tables? If so, then the pairs unable to play the board should have had Av+ as they were unable to play the board through no fault of their own.
I would presu…
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If you enter "Not played" for Pair A v Pair B for a board not played due to slow play on the previous boards in the round, and if Pair A end the session with 65% and Pair B finish the session with 40%, then for the board the pairs didn't play, yo…
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I had a problem with clicking on the link, possibly because the end bracket was part of the URL.
Try https://tinyurl.com/2krkoglz
This ruling comes down to bridge judgem…
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You are right that the hand does not qualify as "Strong". I would have opened 1H.
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The 3H bid really only shows between 0 and 4 spades? It seems they are playing something that isn't Puppet Stayman. I did play Muppet Stayman some years ago but have forgotten it, but I don't think they are playing that either. It seems like MI. …
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There isn't such a Law but there is Blue Book guidance (BB 2A3):
"It is expected that experienced players will protect themselves in obvious misinformation cases. If they receive an implausible explanation, and can protect them…
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The differences in experiences depending on where one lives and the fields in which one plays or directs are interesting.
I do not find it unusual that players play Stayman and red suit transfers when partner's opening 1NT has been double…
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Does this mean that by agreement the 2C shows clubs?