[blml] What does "specified" mean in Law 29C?

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Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Reppert" <ereppert at rochester.rr.com>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] What does "specified" mean in Law 29C?


> I have seen definitions of "natural" that apply to opening bids. I  
> see no reason why those definitions should apply to a suit bid on the  
> third round. Opener's first bid shows 5+ spades, his second 4+  
> diamonds (unless he's manufacturing a bid for some reason), his  
> third, well, if we require it to show 4+ hearts in order not to be  
> artificial, then a natural suit bid on the third round in just about  
> any auction is *almost always* going to be artificial. I don't buy it.
> 
+=+ Would it not be the case that a bid is either artificial or not 
artificial? I am not sure whether the laws (must read them again!) 
use the term 'natural', whereas 'artificial' is defined. 
                                     ~ Grattan ~   +=+