[blml] Insufficient rebid

[Eric Landau]

At 09:47 AM 10/26/06, richard.hills wrote:

>As Eric Landau has noted, in the ACBL a pair is not allowed to
>change its methods after the acceptance of an insufficient bid.

What the ACBL has actually said is that a pair is not allowed to have 
*any agreement whatsoever*, (presumably whether "changed" or not) 
regarding methods after the acceptance of an insufficient bid.  As I 
have often noted, this is a logical absurdity, *at best* tantamount to 
making it illegal to condone an insufficient bid.

Indeed, most ACBL players do seem to think that it *is* illegal to 
condone an insufficient bid.  How else can one explain the fact that 
most insufficient bids in the ACBL are followed, immediately upon being 
noted, by a correction to a sufficient bid, without the director first 
being called or any other allowance made for the possibility that the 
opponents might choose to condone it?


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