[blml] Profit from irregularites

[Eric Landau]

At 12:04 PM 12/12/06, Ed wrote:

>On Dec 12, 2006, at 5:35 AM, Tim West-Meads wrote:
>
> > Thus once a piece of general K&E becomes a matter of PA/PE it crosses
> > the line to disclosable.
>
>Perhaps it does. Should it?
>
>When something is derivable from general knowledge, one expects that
>opponents will be able to figure it out as well as our side can.  I
>fail to see how partnership experience, or even partnership agreement
>changes that. Or are we in the politically correct mode of
>"assisting" players who refuse to think for themselves? :-(

It should.  The object is to meet Ed's expectation, "that opponents 
will be able to figure it out as well as our side can".  When we can 
"figure it out" without having to think about it because we have an 
agreement covering it, the opponents must be allowed to do "as well as 
our side can", which requires their having knowledge of the agreement 
too.  What need not be disclosed is what we actually do figure out from 
general K&E, not what we *could* figure out if we didn't have an agreement.


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