[blml] Law 25A

[Eric Landau]

At 11:40 AM 9/7/06, Sven wrote:

>The standard criterion should be:
>
>Did the first call carry any bridge information?
>
>If it did we do not have an inadvertent call, if it did not then that call
>was inadvertent.
>
>And that question must be judged and answered by the Director without
>looking at any cards when he shall rule whether to allow or deny a Law 25A
>correction.

This is all essentially correct, but I'm not sure it helps.  A 
genuinely inadvertent call cannot carry any (bridge) information -- if 
you pull a bid card that isn't the one you were trying for, it could be 
any one; there's nothing to be learned from which one it is.  But the 
same call made intentionally would normally carry potential 
information, as one might deduce what was in the caller's mind when he 
made it.  So in the typical L25 problem case, you need to decide 
whether the call was or was not inadvertent to determine whether it 
does not, or does, respectively, carry any information.


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