[blml] ...have we really come to this???

[Eric Landau]

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

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

Unfortunately, the law under which the regulation is justified is  
based on playing strength, not HCP, which is why there's a problem.

>     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.

It's nice to see the Systems Committee finally recognizing that HCP  
is not an adequate measure of what TFLB means by "strength".  There  
are numerous contributors to this forum who have been trying to  
convince the WBF of this for years.

Now we get to spend more years arguing about what other hands with  
fewer than 10 HCP are "at least as strong as" xx/xx/AKQxxxx/xx.


Eric Landau
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