[blml] Fwd: Re: agreements

[Sven Pran]

> On Behalf Of Alain Gottcheiner
> Subject: [blml] Fwd: Re: agreements
> 
> 
> >Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:15:43 +0200
> >To: Robert Geller <geller at nifty.com>
> >From: Alain Gottcheiner <agot at ulb.ac.be>
> >Subject: Re: [blml] agreements
> >Cc: blml at rtflb.org
> >
> >At 00:00 12/10/2006 +0900, Robert Geller wrote:
> >>I don't think this is a laws question.  Rather the answer depends on
> >>the alerting regulations set up by the particular sponsoring
> organization.
> >
> >Not really. The problem is not in the alert (a cue-bid is ofrten
> >considered self-alerting), but rather in the explanation. So I'll
> rephrase
> >it : "when explaining a bid -yours or his-, are you allowed -perhaps
> >compelled- to assume "standard" is the agreement" ?

No! "Standard" is no description, it is a reference to some more or less
obscure set of definitions which your opponents cannot be assumed to know.

Sven