[blml] Lead Problem (continued)

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gampas at aol.com 
To: blml at amsterdamned.org 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 1:05 AM
Subject: [blml] Lead Problem (continued)



I cannot agree with this. We are not talking about UI here, so 
the LA requirement is not appropriate. For a psyche to be 
classified as Amber, there would be need to be "some evidence 
of an unauthorised understanding" - the wording in the EBU 
Orange Book. In other words, the top diamond lead would 
have to be unusual and therefore provide evidence that the 
opening leader expected his or her partner to have psyched. 
This is clearly not the case here; the opening leader has 
selected a lead based on the assumption that his or her partner 
would have a poor jump overcall in hearts, or a reasonable 
one but no entry; the notion that the leader has thought his or 
her partner has psyched is a reductio ad absurdum.

+=+ At one time in my bridge career, for a decade or more, 
I played overcalls at the one level announced as potentially 
abysmally weak and could be only four cards. We largely  
ignored such overcalls for the purposes of the opening lead 
and led the card we would choose in a silent auction. 
                                      ~ Grattan ~   +=+