[blml] Orange Book (was L20F1) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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                               joys of sense,
 Lie in three words, health, peace,
                          and competence."
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim West-Meads" <twm at cix.co.uk>
To: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] Orange Book (was L20F1)
                            [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]


> Grttn wrote:
>
> > Law 75 is all about 'partnership' agreements
>
> Of course it is.  Oh, wait a minute there's that bit in L75C about
> disclosing "information conveyed to him through partnership agreement *or
> partnership experience*".  So in fact Law75 is all about agreements apart
> from the bits which relate to experience.
>
> Whether it's "Ostensibly promises 6 but I know partner often does it in
> with only 5" Or "Ostensibly promises hearts but partner sometimes bids
> it with diamonds" doesn't invalidate either the experience or
> requirement to disclose.  Of course in each case there is additional
> shared partnership experience as to *when* (from experience) partner is
> most likely to have 5 (or have diamonds). In the former case the "when"
> is likely to revolve around seat/vulnerability - which one can explain.
> In the latter case one knows the frequency and times are based on
> partner's forgetfulness - it is nigh on impossible to inform opponents
> correctly without also explaining the tendency to forget.
>
+=+ In the situation the agreement has become, implicitly through
experience, '5 or 6 hearts or may show diamonds'.  In  a tournament
where the System Regulations do not allow of such a bid action may
be taken against the use of the bid when it  has reached a level  that
calls for disclosure.
                                      ~ Grattan ~   +=+