[blml] convention
Steve Willner
willner at cfa.harvard.edu
Sun Dec 17 19:33:22 CET 2006
> From: "Wayne Burrows" <wjburrows at gmail.com>
> It only has to be one of the possibilities to be not conventional -
> willingness to play OR high-card strength OR length.
Under a literal reading of the definition, that isn't quite right.
Showing any or none of the three meanings or overall strength is
irrelevant to the classification, but if a call shows anything else
_besides_ those things, then it's a convention. There's also a WBFLC
minute saying, in effect, that negative inferences don't make a call a
convention.
The fact that people are disagreeing about a particular call shows that
the definition isn't easy to understand.
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