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

[Jerry Fusselman]

On Dec 6, 2007 4:28 PM, Ed Reppert <ereppert at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Jerry Fusselman wrote:
>
> > Ed Reppert writes
> >>
> >> Any forcing call is, by the definition of "forcing" not an offer to
> >> play in the denomination named or last named.
> >>
> >
> > You're confusing "denomination" with "contract".  The auction 1S-P-2H
> > can be forcing and an offer to play the contract in the denomination
> > of hearts.  So forcing calls can indeed be offers to play in the
> > denomination named.
>
> Sorry. The phrase used in the message to which I replied was "strain
> and level". I should have specified the same. IOW, if 2H is forcing
> in the above auction, it is not an offer to play in 2H.
>

Yes, the previous poster misled you in a way.  The 2007 laws contain this:
"Artificial call - is a bid, double,
or redouble that conveys information (not being information taken
for granted by players generally) other than willingness to play
in the denomination named or last named; or a pass which promises
more than a specified amount of strength or if it promises or
denies values other than in the last suit named."

So this is the new definition of artificial.  It contains no reference
to level.  Thus, 2H can be both forcing and nonartificial.

Jerry Fusselman