[blml] De Whale

[Brian Meadows]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:26:36 -0400, Eric Landau wrote:


>>Quoting Herman
>>
>>Oh, and, have you really ever given as a reply to an opponent who asks
>>what your partner's bid means "I have honestly no idea" (not while
>>meaning "other than the obvious ones that you also have")?
>>
>>I have, but I've also added "most likely it will be ..."
>
>So Herman, in the absense of any agreement, facing a partner who is 
>presumably aware of the fact that they have no agreement, gratuitously 
>tells partner how he will take the bid, and, therefore, how to 
>interpret his subsequent responses.  That sounds like deliberate and 
>egregious generation of UI.  It is *precisely* the practice of adding 
>"most likely it will be..." (or, equivalently, "I'm going to take it 
>as...") that the ACBL has gone to great lengths (rightfully, IMO, and 
>for the most part successfully) to stamp out.
>

It's not just the ACBL, Eric. From the 2006 EBU Orange Book...

<paste>
3.B.3.     A player should explain only the partnership
agreement. If the player does not know the meaning of partner’s
call, or there is no agreement, there must be no statement of how
the player intends to interpret it.
</paste>

Brian.