[blml] Tie me kangaroo court, sport [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 18:30 29/09/2006 +0900, Robert Geller wrote:

>The above is diametrically opposed to the official position of the
>WBF Laws Commission, who made the following general statement
>in the minutes of the WBFLC  on 24 Aug 1998.

Absolutely right. However :

1. This addresses cases where nothing was said about whether something is 
allowed or not.
Actions about which nothing is written can be deemed illegal. Fine.
But we're speaking about cases where some action is allowed by some item of 
rules (drawing attention to an irregularity, L9), and not explicitly 
disallowed otherwise. This is quite different.

2. There is no supplementary item of information deriving from saying 
"you're not the one to bid", which makes use of said ruling in this case 
null and void.
If issuing information that was available to every player and can affect 
the auction or play was per se disallowed, you wouldn't be allowed to keep 
scores, keep track of tricks won, or manhandling the board to see who's 
dealer (I'm deeply long-sighted).

... I'll be wrong, of course, it's written somewhere that attention can 
only be drawn to an irregularity after is is completed, not when it's 
happening, but I can't find this anywhere.



Regards

    Alain

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