[blml] De Whale [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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"And if I loved you Wednesday
 What is that to you?
 I do not love you Thursday,
 So much is true."
                - Edna St. V. Millay
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim West-Meads" <twm at cix.co.uk>
To: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] De Whale [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]


> Herman wrote:
>> Because no director is going to believe that there was 
>> absolutely no background for their two guesses to coincide.
> 
> If they tell me they knew the situation was ambiguous and wasn't a 
> sequence previously encountered and wasn't in their copious system notes 
> I will be predisposed to believe that they had no *partnership* 
> understanding regarding their guess but were both relying on their 
> (pretty considerable) GBK and ended up on the same wavelength.
> 
> The rarer the sequence the longer a partnership can play together 
> without it generating an expectation of disclosable partnership 
> experience.
> 
> Tim
> 
+=+  The evidence has to be assessed. In appeals committees 
evidence from the actions of the players is normally considered 
stronger than the statements of the players unsupported by 
corroboration from CC or system notes.
                                                ~ Grattan ~   +=+