[blml] 2007 Law 40C1.

[gesta at tiscali.co.uk]

Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
[following address discontinued:
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk]
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"Le congres ne marche pas, il danse"
 (The Congress makes no progress,
  but it dances.)
                           Prince de Ligne
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+=+ I have been reading through the messages 
concerning 'strange bidding'. While I pass no 
comment on the practices in places referred to, it 
may be of interest that I had begun previously to 
consult regarding what needs to be done to bring 
the WBF Code of Practice into line with the 2007 
Laws. Informally the WBF President has indicated 
his approval of the initiative.    
       The following text is to be examined in the 
course of the exercise but it does not seem prima 
facie to be inconsistent with the 2007 laws: 
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      "to deem that an implicit understanding exists 
it must be determined that the partner of the player 
who psyches has a heightened awareness that in 
the given situation the call may be psychic. This 
will be the case only if in the opinion of the 
committee one of the following circumstances is 
established:

(a) similar psychic action has occurred in the 
partnership on several occasions in the past, 
and not so long ago that the memory of the 
actions has faded in the partner's mind - habit 
is to be identified when an occurrence is so 
frequent that it may be anticipated; or

(b) in the recent past a similar psychic call has 
occurred in the partnership and it is considered 
the memory of it is so fresh that it cannot 
have faded from mind; or

(c) psychic calls of various kinds have occurred 
in the partnership with such frequency, and 
sufficiently recently, that the partner is clearly 
aware of the tendency for such psychic calls 
to occur; or

(d) the members of the partnership are mutually 
aware of some significant external matter that 
may help recognition of the psychic call.  "
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