[blml] Réf. : Re: Law 21B1

[Alain Gottcheiner]

Tim said : Looking isn't forbidden in L16 cases - it's simply unnecessary
because
the only thing the TD has to say is "Play on"
 
# I see this as a classic dilemma, in the original sense : either the TD has
no use of the knowledge of the player's hand - and why should one look at it
 then ? ; or one has, but only at the cost of transmitting heavy UI : the
cure is worse than the disease. Not forbidden, that's true, but strongly
discouraged in every TD course. And it happened that I answered "I'm not
allowed to do it", rather than "I'd rather not do it", if only to avoid
players insisting that I do.
 
Tim said : IMO L21 is similar to L25 - the TD (and the TD alone) has
responsibility
for determining (at the time of his ruling) whether a change of call is
permitted (this fits with the tone of Law10).
 
# It's barely possible that the AC get items of information that weren't
available to the TD on the spur of the moment (from the pair's posted
agreements, for example), whose effect is to give them good reason to
overrule the TD's opinion about which part of the law applies.
 
Best regards
 
   Alain
 
 
 
Tim
 
 
 
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