[blml] agreements

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 11:33 12/10/2006 -0400, you wrote:

>I have a hard time believing this.  Is "the standard Belgian expert
>stuff" really consensually and uniformly defined to the point where it
>can be called an agreement by virtue of merely being named?

Perhaps. Perhaps not. Perhaps there exists a standard Brussels stuff. 
Remember that Belgium is the size of New Jersey (and has less expert players).

>I can tell you this for sure:  There is not a single soul who could
>tell you what constitutes "the standard American expert stuff".  Any
>"agreement" to play *that* would be meaningless and would certainly not
>constitute what we mean by "a partnership agreement" in this context.

However, it has been said BWS2000 (or any year) is an agreement.

The last part was because, on a day when I left my CCs at home, we agreed 
to play "our teammates' system", which was well documented (incidentally, I 
wrote the documentation).
We know they had spare CCs. We won the match. However, I had some qualms 
about possible misexplanations.

Best regards,

   Alain