[blml] Breaking the Law (was why ask ?)

[Tim West-Meads]

> *From:* Alain Gottcheiner <agot at ulb.ac.be>
> *To:* "Tim West-Meads" <twm at cix.co.uk>, blml at rtflb.org
> *Date:* Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:18:07 +0200
> 
> At 13:40 12/06/2006 +0100, Tim West-Meads wrote:
> 
> >The difficulty, Alain, is that in Marv's Zone one is forbidden to
> >reserve rights (including, in the opinion of some, seeking agreement
> >that UI has been made available) thus anything in 16A1 is irrelevant.
> >Players in such Zones have a choice between an immediate call when UI
> >occurs, or a call at the end of the hand (when dummy goes down).
> 
> Once again, I'm lost.
> 
> What's the difference between :
> 
> a) calling immediately, telling what happened (one of your two 
> options)
> b) calling to reserve your rights

The "reservation of rights" is not a TD call.  Where permitted it often 
takes the form of "Do we agree there was a BiT", "Yes".  The TD is *only* 
called if the answer is "No".  He will always issue an instruction to 
play on but may be better positioned to establish whether a BiT occurred 
than if called at the end of the hand.

Due to an ACBL Zonal election the "reservation of rights" is not 
permitted in that Zone.  Some people believe this also prevents seeking 
agreement about a BiT (I'm not sure about that myself).

Tim