[blml] Any redress or rub of the green

[Eric Landau]

At 08:47 PM 4/24/07, richard.hills wrote:

>Detailed advice on how habit creates superseding implicit
>agreements is in the WBF Code of Practice, pages 7 and 8.
>Some relevant quotes:
>
>"Where the same explanation of a call is given to both
>members of the opposing side, it being subsequently
>confirmed that both members of the side giving the
>explanation agree this is its correct meaning (and there is
>no conflict with information on the convention card), if
>the hand to which the explanation relates is materially
>different from the explanation the matter should be dealt
>with under the laws and regulations concerned with psychic
>action."
>
>"A partnership understanding exists if it is explicitly
>agreed by the partnership; alternatively it may exist
>because it is the implicit consequence of one of a number
>of circumstances. To deem that such an implicit
>understanding exists it must be determined that the partner
>of the player who psyches has a heightened awareness that
>in the given situation the call may be psychic. This will
>be the case only if in the opinion of the committee one of
>the following circumstances is established:

[...]

>(c) psychic calls of various kinds have occurred in the
>partnership with such frequency, and sufficiently recently,
>that the partner is clearly aware of the tendency for such
>psychic calls to occur;

[...]

I'm not sure how to interpret this.  It seems to say that if one has 
gained a reputation for psyching frequently (of which one's partner is 
aware), any attempt to psych will be treated as the exercise of an 
implicit partnership understanding, even if the context for the psych 
is unprecedented.  That would mean that a known frequent psycher may 
not -- indeed, presumptively can not -- psych ever, at least until his 
reputation for doing so frequently has been forgotten.


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