[blml] Positronic brain [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Herman De Wael]

Richard uses an interpretation which does not seem universally accepted:

richard.hills at immi.gov.au wrote:
> Richard Hills asks:
> 
> 
>>When a positron meets its equal but opposite anti-
>>particle, an electron, they annihilate each other.
>>
>>Does this also happen when authorised information
>>meets an equal but opposite amount of unauthorised
>>information?
> 
> 
> Director's ruling:
> 
> 
>>>... When told about the hesitation, all players
>>>agreed that it made no difference, since all the
>>>information they needed was contained in the bid
>>>of 5S.
>>>
>>>Consequently, the Director ruled that ... the
>>>unauthorized information had not suggested the
>>>raise to 7H.
> 
> 
> Richard Hills answers:
> 
> In my opinion, given that there is a logical
> alternative to 7H of Pass, it does not matter that
> both the AI and the UI seem(1) to promise identical
> values.
> 
> The UI still demonstrably suggests that 7H will be
> more successful than the other logical alternative
> of Pass, so under Law 16 it is irrelevant that the
> AI also demonstrably suggests that 7H will be more
> successful than Pass.
> 

I believe that a more accepted interpretation is that once there is AI 
of the same content as UI, the UI restrictions fall away.

This is the interpretation needed when we are ruling in very simple 
cases of UI. Say your partner alerts your 2C Stayman and explains it 
as Stayman. You have UI that he has interpreted it as Stayman, and you 
also have AI that he should interpret it as Stayman. Surely you can 
make a case which insists that there are LA's to your next bid, and 
that this next bid is influenced by the UI. But we don't put 
restrictions on you, do we?

I feel that the same must be true in the case above. If we decide that 
the 5S bid contains the same information as the hesitation, then we 
should rule that the UI has "dissapeared" and there are no longer 
restrictions on the player.

(I'm talking hypothetically here - mind you!)
-- 
Herman DE WAEL
Antwerpen Belgium
http://www.hdw.be



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