[blml] Law 12 A 1.

[Konrad Ciborowski]

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From: "David Burn" <dalburn at btopenworld.com>
To: "'Bridge Laws Mailing List'" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] Law 12 A 1.


> [Kojak]
>
> It [L12A1] is pure and simply there to let the bridge world know that 
> there
> may be infractions that have not yet been thought of and taken
> care of by the rest of the laws.
>
> [DALB]
>
> Having earlier said that there cannot be infractions that have not yet 
> been
> thought of, I am abashed to report a case that has come to my attention 
> from
> Bridge Base Online - one of several such cases from online bridge.
>
> With a few tricks remaining in the play of a hand, North left the table
> never to return, probably due to some problem with his internet connection
> or some domestic crisis. The outcome of the hand was in no doubt: 
> East-West
> were going to make eleven tricks in four spades for an average result, so
> there was no question of North having left in order to avoid obtaining a
> poor score. But I am informed that there are players who do leave the 
> table
> when their result is about to be unfavourable, feigning connection 
> problems
> or inventing some other reason for their departure.
>
> The question was: what should the Director do about the result on the 
> board?

[SNIP]

> The question from the legal point of view is of course: may the Director
> award an assigned adjusted score if no result can be obtained following an
> irregularity? Law 12C appears to indicate that he may not, but that flies 
> in
> the face of common sense in the circumstances I have described.

David,

If comparing IMPs and mathpoints was comparing apples
and screwdrivers then comparing F2F bridge and online
bridge is comparing screwdrivers with drivers.

Any application of the current laws to online
bridge is nonsensical per se - current laws contain
a vast number of laws that become sheer idiocy
when applied to online game ("Each player counts his cards
face down to be sure he has exactly 13",
"Each player shall restore his original 13 cards to the pocket",
"Director makes search for the missing card",
alerting laws etc), there are tons of pages that
define procedures for situations that don't have
a remote chance of coming up in online bridge
(revoke laws, laws about calls/plays out of turn,
insufficient bids etc.) while you won't find a single word
there about situation that arises several times
during every tournament ie. a player losing
Internet connection.

Online bridge requires laws of its own - separate
laws. It is simply a different sport - much
like beach volleyball has a different set
of laws from volleyball and rugby
has a rulebook that is different from
the one of the American football even though
there are similarities between these sports..
That a touchdown followed by a successful
conversion is 7 points in both doesn't mean
it makes sense to apply rules from one to another.

Konrad Ciborowski
Kraków, Poland 


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