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Barrie: "Some ask a supplementary question straight off: "What other calls do you consider". I prefer to ask after they have given their first choice.
As for not making it obvious there has been a hesitation issue, sometimes it can't be a…
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Martin: "Suppose a partnership ends in 4H and makes 11 tricks. During the bidding there was a long hesitation and so partner passes as the hesitation supposedly suggests bidding on and they pass instead. Everyone else in the room bids to 6H and g…
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AlanB: "On both hands two grand masters were polled by email. Each said he would have bid without the hesitation. Each said he would have passed after the hesitation.
Are we sometimes too ethical in our bidding?"
I'm not sure what…
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Yes, I think you're right on that point, Weejonnie.
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Senior Kibitzer: "I suspect that when you ask West why he doubled, you'll be ruling a mis-bid rather than a psyche. I doubt that West had any intent to deceive."
I suspect so too, or that West bids according to how he feels rather than ac…
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Weejonnie: "If the director rules that is was a fielded psych (red) then you rule 60-15 as an Artificial adjusted score - you don't try and work out what should happen at the table. If you rule it as an amber psych then there is no score adjustme…
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Tag, the board turned out well for the psychers, but not entirely because of the psyche. South had !s AK1076 !h K42 !d Q !c J975 and North !s 93 !h - !d AK106432 !c KQ42. I've no idea what possessed South in the bidding, but they claimed that E…
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Weejonnie, I raised the same point with the director. I asked what their agreement was for the double, and he didn't know, and said they didn't have a convention card. I said how can it be a departure from their agreement if they don't have an ag…
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I'm aware of law 12B2, but that wouldn't be the reason for awarding the adjusted score, it would be because the TD judges that there's no way to play the board normally.
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I was called to rule on an opening lead by dummy at the weekend. Luckily, no one else saw fit to follow before calling the director.
I was rather surprised to be directed to law 24 - "a card exposed during the auction". The auction is ove…
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Clearly your RHO is the dealer, otherwise bnfe would have said that the opening bid was out of rotation.
This is an insufficient bid problem. Why is anyone treating it as a call out of rotation?
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I agree that the regulations aren't working, at least at lower levels of the game, but I dread another change of alert regulations for doubles, at least if it's on the lines of "alert the unexpected". You've given some examples where the meaning …
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I think a lot of nonsense is spoken about sample sizes for polls, and practical limitations should also be considered. I'm sure statisticians could come up with calculations for sample sizes to give suitable statistical power to our poll, to redu…
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Black Topaz: "If North's bid was not alerted or announced, there is no reason for East to assume it is a weak bid."
Well it has to be something. If it was natural (showing only spades) the strength should have been announced. If it was an…
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I don't really understand the comment of "doesn't really exist in their system". Assuming they are playing a natural bidding system, 2 !s would be expected to have the natural, default meaning of "strong, GF with 5+ spades". Pairs can change the …
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The licence to East to have some thinking time at trick one is to allow them time to think about the defence to the entire hand, not about which card to play from three small, AJxx, a singleton, or anything else. So long as South cannot tell whet…
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If declarer's last three cards are Qxx (or Jxx) of trumps, and one defender has the 10 of trumps and two other cards, I'd give declarer all three tricks if they were on lead. If they had some additional side-suit winners that could be trumped I'd…
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I think I've seen the article Frances refers to, and it made me wonder too.
Wouldn't this be a good thing to add to the White Book, perhaps under 8.42, since it causes confusion?
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Thanks, ** [Name & original comment removed at contributor's request]**.
They had entered the six scores for round 1 when I swapped the bridgemates. I'm sure the scores were retained in the scoring programme, server etc., but the prob…
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An appeals committee can apply its own procedural or disciplinary penalty if a ruling is appealed and they consider the director has been too lenient, or reduce the TD's procedural penalty if they think it was too severe. I don't think a conduct …
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If you have opened an artificial "strong" (?) two bid and the opponents call the director and ask if what you have done is legal, you are the "offending" side, by virtue of being under suspicion of having done something unlawful. It is up to you …
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ais523: "If partner doesn't know your methods, you have no agreement and thus there's nothing to conceal. The correct answer to a question would be "we agreed to play Benji, we didn't discuss what that means"."
You cannot use this argumen…
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I think the director has to decide whether the evidence (EW's different understanding of the bid) suggests that their actual agreement was one or other of these, or "no agreement". However, I don't think that East can be blamed for not alerting t…
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"(3) - North comments that he should have alerted the X as showing a major/ minor combination. (OK he should have called the director, but that isn't the problem)."
I think that's exactly what the problem is. NS have given misinformation …
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[495670] " However, if there was ever a misunderstanding that could have been resolved clearly by having a system card available, I would always rule favourably with the "non-offending side," which tends to be a more experienced pair in most case…
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I've never charged anyone with playing an illegal method because they didn't disclose it either, but I would have done if they had, and that's what I've been teaching directors to do. I shan't any more.
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[Robin]: "Adequate disclosure is not part of 7C1: no agreement is illegal because it is inadequate explained. The requirement for adequate disclosure is universal."
The reason I asked was this used to be the case. An older version of the …
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[Robin]: " If it is a permitted agreement which is inadequately explained then there may be misinformation and the pair should be educated to improve their disclosure."
BB5C3 states that it is permissible to agree to open e.g. 2 !c with l…
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I was the perpetrator, and it was as minor and innocent and "green" a deviation as you could possibly imagine, but in the general case I think the cynic does have a point, and I have some sympathy for him (although not for his jaundiced outlook o…
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To be equally honest, I've not seen much evidence that the EBU do either.
I would say most of the clubs I've played in that have appreciable numbers of serious players (those who play in county events and congresses) have a "psyche book",…