[blml] Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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"The best words in the best order"
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Subject: Re: [blml] Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition


> > Grattan Endicott wrote:
> >>+=+ What would be the reaction if a Law 40E1 regulation 
> >>were to allow a player to consult his own convention card 
> >>when answering an opponent's question? (It would call for 
> >>a literal interpretation of L40E2.)
> 
>   And the following comment was returned:
>
> I'd have said it would call for a change in L40E2, but perhaps I'm 
> underestimating the ingenuity of the WBFLC or some SOs.
> 
+=+ If you will excuse my state of mind, so much immersed
in the minutiae of the laws, I contemplated the words of the 
current Law 40E2 - in particular   ".... at his own turn to call 
or play...". Reading this literally it does not exclude for an SO 
the possibility of a 40E1 regulation authorizing the player to 
look, in given circumstances, at someone else's turn. (Without 
such a regulation it is illegal because nowhere authorized.)
The footnote would need to be interpreted so that the action
did not represent an aid to his memory but rather an aid to 
opponent's information. That would be a question, but who 
would step in to oppose the SO's wishes if the regulation 
put it in those terms?
     Oh the devil with such devious ingenuity!
                                         ~ Grattan ~   +=+