[blml] Positronic brain

[Tim West-Meads]

Alain (and Steve) wrote:
> >
> >We've seen examples of that in the past, though I'm unable to offer 
> one >at this instant.  I agree the length of break often isn't 
> significant,>but it can be.
> 
> I can offer one : if, after 1NT - 2C - 2H - 2S (relay), a player 
> takes 5 seconds before answering 3H (say, maximum with 4 clubs), it 
> could simply be that he thinks about whether his hand is a maximum ; 
> if he takes a whole minute, you can bet he's struggling to remember 
> his system.

Fair enough guys, my sentence was an overbid but I wrote in the context 
of the preceding sentence which contained the words "..but after 20 
seconds I know..".  I'll go with Alain's example of a short pause (5 
secs or so) being likely hand evaluation related but I'd say anything 
from about 20 secs through ten minutes is a system memory struggle.

Tim