[blml] Skip bids

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 10:52 13/07/2006 -0400, Adam Wildavsky wrote:
>No technology is necessary beyond the bidding boxes we already have. The 
>WBF regulations address this well. They are never used nowadays, though, 
>since as far as I know all WBF events use screen.
>
>Please see my proposal that the ACBL should use the WBF technique:
>
>   http://www.tameware.com/adam/bridge/laws/stop_card.html

This is of course excellent procedure, if followed properly. It is the 
suggested procedure in Belgium.
But its drabback is the same as for other suggestions that have been made 
here : the player using the Stop card will be influenced by his hand or the 
meaning of the bid, letting the Stop card lie on the table a long or short 
time. And this will transmit UI.