[blml] ...have we really come to this??? [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Ed Reppert]

On Aug 12, 2007, at 7:02 AM, Grattan Endicott wrote:

> +=+ Just so.  The regulation is based on HCP not
> on playing strength.

Yet the law is based on playing strength. Might this difference make  
the regulation illegal? (CF Law 80F).

>     On the other hand there is a Systems Committee
> decision, which I have just confirmed for Shanghai,
> that xx/xx/AKQxxxx/xx is 'an average hand' for the
> purposes of the WBF Systems Policy.
>                                        ~ Grattan ~   +=+

This "average hand" is about three tricks better than the three  
discussed upthread. So I think the Systems Committee is in error.

Seems to me that, since there are thirteen playing tricks and four  
hands, a hand of "average playing strength" ought to expect to take  
some three or four tricks, certainly not seven.