[blml] Alert and alarmed (was continued) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Law 75A:

"Special partnership agreements, whether explicit
or implicit, must be fully and freely available
to the opponents....."

Tim West-Meads:

>A reasonable point.  However the EBU regulation
>that a weak pre-empt style be clearly disclosed on
>the CC but is neither alertable nor pre-alertable
>can hardly be said to conflict with L75a.

Richard Hills:

My interpretation of "fully" and "freely" is that
highly unusual methods should be disclosed to the
opponents in as many different ways as are
reasonably practical.

For example, if the Ali-Hills partnership played
in an ACBL event, and if our uncontested auction
started 1H - 1NT, a simple Alert! of that 1NT
would be inadequate for our American friends.
They would naturally expect our Alert! to be
because we played the Eastern Scientific forcing
for one round 1NT.  But we actually play the
Symmetric Relay (system notes emailed on request)
artificial game force relay 1NT.


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
Level 6 Aqua Training Suite, DIAC
02 6225 6776

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