[blml] Any redress or rub of the green [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Richard Hills earlier assertion:

>(c) Meanwhile, in both cases, a sensible Director assesses the self-
>incriminating statements by The Master and The Master's partner to rule
>under Law 85 that neither in case (a) nor in case (b) is there any
>mutual partnership agreement.

Richard Hills later clarification:

Only in the initial case of disagreement between The Master and his
partner is there zero partnership agreement.  For subsequent iterations
of disagreement there is now _asymmetrical_ partnership understandings.

For example, in one of my regular partnerships, for the first twelve
months my partner and I had a notional explicit partnership agreement
that 2NT was lebensohl after partner doubled an opposing weak two bid.

I always remembered lebensohl, but for the first twelve months of our
partnership my partner almost always forgot lebensohl.  (She is highly
intelligent with a good memory, but lebensohl happened to collide with
a quirk in her visualisation of our system.)

So we had an asymmetrical partnership understanding that my 2NT was
always artificial (and usually weakly competing for the partscore)
while pard's 2NT was almost always natural (with invitational to game
strength).  Of course, I fully explained our implicit asymmetrical
agreement to the opponents, and dutifully bid to disaster whenever I
gained UI from partner's failure to alert.

The good news is that in the second year of our partnership my partner
is now bidding consistent with the system.  The bad news is that I am
now perpetrating copious unforced errors, thus I single-handedly
dragged our partnership to twelfth place out of twelve in the recent
ACT Open Trials.

:-)


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
National Training Branch, DIAC
02 6223 9052

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