Robin_BarkerTD
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A non-forcing 1D which can be 2 diamonds is announced.
A non-forcing 1D which can be 3 diamonds in a balanced hand is not alerted or announced. Bidding 3-card minor suits has been regarded as natural and not alertable 'forever'.
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If 1C is strong and 1D is catch-all opening, including a minimum balanced opening, then 1D should be announced as “May be two, with up to five clubs”. If 1D includes unbalanced hands with 5 or 6 clubs, then the announcement will be "May be one…
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I think this discussion is straying off TD issues.
People do play 1NT responses as wide ranging and non-forcing (0-12 is not unheard of). These 1NT responses are announced. The soundness or bridge merit of these methods is not concern o…
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It doesn't matter if the replacement shows a more limited range than the replaced bid - that would be a subset. It does matter if the replaced bid shows a minimum of 4 spades and the replacement could be on fewer spades.
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As well as a warning (lecture?), the players should be encouraged to call the TD when there is a non-jump stop-bid, so the TD can explain the law and the UI restrictions - before the offenders are in a position to use UI.
Whether the fourth diamond was visible in dummy does not appear to be relevant.
Agreeing with Gordon: I don't think it is careless to play DJ or D10 first, it is certainly not 'beyond careless' to play a diamond to the 10 - this is a norm…
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(Quote)Good question.
1. The change to 'one or two' meanings in the second bullet was deliberate
2. Whether it was meant to include the possibility of one non-strong 'showing the suit' meaning and one non-strong artificial meaning…(Quote)'4J2' is a typo for '4H2'. '(i)' is a mistake, the new item is item (h).
4H2 used to be (a)-(i). We deleted (d) and (h), and added a new (h) - after the old '(i)', now relabelled '(g)'
Today's (7 August) version of th…
New draft, dated 5 August
https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/laws-and-ethics/2023/blue-book-draft.pdf?(Quote)Thanks, update to follow
Blue Book 2023 effective from Monday 7 August
Final draft
https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/laws-and-ethics/2023/blue-book-draft.pdf<…You should include "14" in the announcement - for example, "good 14 to 17" or "some 14s, 15 to 17".
The slogan is 'tell them what you play'
Players can ask for a ruling within the correction period. This includes asking for a TD to rule again when there are additional/overlooked facts relating to a ruling already given.
If the director will not reconsider, appeal.
Many teams events allow a 6-person team to compete. Sometimes the same 4 players must play a match or session, or sometimes the team can change the line-up during a match or session. It is unusual for a team of more-than-4 to play a one-session…
(Quote)I sympathise. It can be very hard to get browsers (chrome) to reload PDFs rather than rely on cached versions.
(Quote)We had a late flurry of detailed comments and have attempted to correct various issues and simplify the new announcements. We met this week and there is a new internal draft. This will probably delay implementation until 7 August.
The thinking previously was that we did not want the standard agreement to be alertable, because it would cause more outre alertable agreements to be hidden because opponents would not ask about the alert. So the interpretation was that the stan…
The traditional negative double was defined by what it did not show (hence "negative"): it did not show support and it did not show a hand that could bid a natural 1NT/2NT/3NT and it denied the values/length to bid another suit. The agreement th…
(Quote)The announcement for natural jumps shifts have been revised to "natural, non-forcing", "strong, forcing" or "strong, game forcing"
Artificial responses are alerted.
Why? Because lots of people play weak jump shifts and they are c…
(Quote)extended to mention that unexpected element.
Master Point and Licensing Handbook
(Quote)The handbook is low on rationale, and most of the design decision for the master point scheme are lost to history, but the basic idea is that for pairs/individuals you do not give master poin…
I have sent a modified-imps-for-teams-of-twelve to Paul Gipson, see another discussion.
https://forums.ebu.co.uk/discussion/1414/modif…Is the teams of 12 the SBU/NE event which has been looking for add-then-imp modified imp scale? If it is add-then-modified-imp you will need to do some post-processing. You may want to score the event as agreegate in EBUScore.
Not clear…
The Club TD course used to teach that you should try separating the played cards of the player with too few cards while still face down - the 'trick' is to find two cards which were played to the same trick, as indicated by no separation between …
A hesitation mitchell is a 'howell' for these purposes because there is no NS and EW lines, the line of moving pairs plays both EW and NS throughout the movement.
So.
1. Everyone should change seats for the arrow switch round as if …If the application of Law 67 means the director cannot play the board later, the director's priority is to rule at this table and accept the consequences when they come to play the board. (White Book 7.6.2.3 and 7.6.2.4)
I think the player should have called the director. I am not surprised that dummy did not comply with instructions from a player.
We used to talk of "custom and practice" - the way things have always been done. Clubs and directors can i…