[blml] Any redress or rub of the green

[Eric Landau]

At 09:29 AM 4/19/07, Karel wrote:

>You're in a teams match.  The bidding proceeds
>
>1D   3C    ??
>
>Your hand
>S AQxx
>H KTx
>D xxx
>C Qxx
>
>You have looked at the opponents CC before the start of the match and
>noted they are playing Ghestem.  LHO does not alert 3C's
>
>Assume you pass (looks like opps having a bidding misunderstanding,
>why wake them up), it goes
>
>  ... All pass !!
>
>RHO has 7 clubs to the KJT, LHO has both majors ...  3C - 2.  Any 
>redress ?

I am going to listen and (hopefully) learn a bit more before I make 
that decision, but, based on what Karel has said above, probably not.

"You" admit to having noted that the opponents' CC indicates that 3C 
was Ghestem, and also to having noted that LHO's failure to alert 
indicates that it is not.  Both cannot be correct, so you know yourself 
to be in possession of contradictory information, and cannot expect 
redress if you "misinform yourself" by choosing to believe one piece of 
information while ignoring the other.

Since you are aware that not all of the information you have can be 
correct, this is the obvious -- some might argue the only -- position 
in which you are clearly obliged to "protect yourself" as a 
precondition for redress.

You are not *required* to protect yourself here, but if you do not, you 
abrogate any claim to have been misinformed.  You are perfectly 
entitled to fail to protect yourself, hoping that doing so will work to 
your advantage at the table.  That's the case here: you made a tactical 
decision not to protect yourself, hoping to gain by increasing the 
chance of your opponents having a bidding misunderstanding.  In return, 
you gave up any potential redress for MI by not taking action at the 
point you knew for sure that you had been given some.  Nice 
try.  Better luck next time.


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