Frances
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Does your answer only apply to this instance when the play and defence were unaffected?
What if North was declarer both in hearts and in NT, and South had bid 6H, but North and East then played the hand assuming he was in NT? Here's a hy…
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MyEBU isn't working properly either. I think I may have paid 4 times for the Year End Swiss Pairs and once for the Swiss Teams, whereas what I wanted to do was pay once for the two Swiss events.
Oh well, merry christmas to the EBU, they c…
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No, you are correct, most commonly known as Italian
DODDS is seen more often in the UK, I think, which is Even encouraging, Discouraging ODD Suit Preference. -
Yes, as a discard. Some people might call it 'reverse DODDS'
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well yes, and congratulations to someone for doing their absolute best to avoid taking advantage (as the Laws put it). But to be honest I don't think they needed to.
I don't entirely see why 4C is natural. Shouldn't it be a good hand of…
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The more common application of this law is to disallow auctions such as
3H P 4H 3NT corrected to 4NT enforcing a pass
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"Once 1NT has been doubled, it is normal practice to play doubles of any "escape" contract as penalties, and this is the expected meaning."
I think that depends on the circles in which you play. I have no expectations of my opponents' do…
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What did the double of 2C mean?
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The problem is that for many people, including many experts, a 4th seat natural 3NT opening doesn't have an agreed point range. Gordon put it very well "when partner has passed there is a lot of latitude and it's really just to play"
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I don't think using 73C is an abuse of the Law here at all
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Speaking entirely personally and not on behalf of the EBU at all (just to be clear!) I would treat them as a usual club evening because the chance that anyone present actually remembered any of the hands and took advantage of that is basically ze…
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I'm not sure a debate about how particular posters play a call is very useful. What matters when applying the Law is the partnership agreement, not whether we think it's good, or standard, or old-fashioned or whatever.
Anyway, here are s…
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You seem to have discovered a lacuna.
The intent is that
- any natural overcall is permitted with any strength (although some agreements might need alerting)
- transfer overcalls or other artificial methods e.…
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Aside from the fact that an agreement to open 2NT on this hand is fine in the Gold Cup as Robin explained, I am pretty confident that the pair did not have such an agreement and partner fully expected 19-21 HCP.
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The second board is clearly unplayable.
I think in theory the first board is too, but a ta club event I'd ask the pairs if they'd like to have another go, reopening the auction after 1C P. -
As Gordon and Robin have said, swapping cards between hands (the 'wrong' 13 cards) is undetectable whereas 14 vs 12 should be caught by both pairs.
Slightly off-topic, but if N/S are 14/12 while E/W are 13-13 I would give 60/40.
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I gave the South hand to an expert last night.
I told him we had no agreements about what double then 3D meant, or what partner's 3S bid meant.He doubled 2D
He doubled 2S. I told him he was bidding 3D instead and he was prep… -
I agree it comes down to what we think South's class is.
I would give an expert no redress because a) an expert is likely to be aware that xx is almost never played as a strong hand, and b) they are capable of looking at their hand and li…
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The EBU record all psyches that they are sent, and a sub-committee of the L&E review all the forms.
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sorry my fault
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To be honest, I don't know anyone who actually keeps records (apart from the EBU) as opposed to saying that they do.
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I think this is actually quite subtle.
If EW have the agreement that double specifically asks for the lead of dummy's first bid suit, that is alertable. That is consistent with the EW statement that double asked for a spade lead.
That's not really "exaggerated for effect". If you want to show a real "exaggerated for effect" example, how about a MI ruling on defensive carding in which you want to give 50% of 6D making (+1370) and 50% of 6D-1 (-100).
Everyone else …
This is just my opinion, but I think you should announce it as 11-15 and say on your convention card that you use a different evaluation method to decide what to open and some 11-15 hands are opened one of a suit.
The reason why I think t…
Just to confirm what others have said, any responses to a strong 1!C (in fact, any responses to any opening bid) are allowed in the EBU, the EBL and the WBF.
The only place I've played where there were restrictions on responses was the US…
I think you are right (speaking as the one who originally wrote that bit).
In my view, both of the offences mentioned should be treated equally. Hearing from the next table that you can make 7NT via the heart finesse, then bidding and ma…
I am generally in sympathy with the NOS but not here.
Declarer (I assume you mean West, not South) is in dummy with one trump outstanding, the 9. He has the Q in dummy and the 10 in handHe can if he wishes ruff the third heart hig…
I have to admit I am confused by a lot of this.
The pair made their own ruling at the table, in a position where it's not entirely obvious to me that West was entitled to change his call over 2H (I would at least like to understand why he w…Playing a strong club system, 1S - 4S is sometimes stronger than it would be in a 'natural' system, but we don't say that should be alerted either - although that one is much closer to being 'unexpected' to those not used to strong club systems
In the general case, if a defender knew that the play of the penalty card was the right defence, they simply had to win the previous trick without bothering to revoke first. (And if they couldn't win the trick, it wouldn't be automatic to lead it…