[blml] Atlanta NABC Mischief

[Steve Willner]

> From: Alain Gottcheiner <agot at ulb.ac.be>
> If you open a semi-psyche once every 20 sessions, that is, once about 520 
> deals, this means that about 10% of your light 3rd-in-hand openings (and 3% 
> of all your 3rd-in-hand openings) will be semi-psuches.
> 
> IMOBO, this is far too much to be brushed aside as a psyche ; this is part 
> of your system.

While the CoP makes frequency an important factor in determining whether 
a call is a psych or not, it neeedn't be.  Jurisdictions that don't 
accept the CoP are free to have their own rules.  Personally, I believe 
the only factors should be whether the system or partner's choices allow 
for the psych.  This sort of rule is enforceable; rules based on 
frequency are not unless good records are kept.

Of course frequency is an important factor in _disclosure_, but that's a 
different matter than _system_.  Enforcement is a big problem here, and 
I don't see what to do about it.