[blml] Turn but a stone

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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"The angels keep their ancient places;
- Turn but a stone, and start a wing!
'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces 
That miss the many-splendoured thing."
                         [Francis Thompson]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Fusselman" <jfusselman at gmail.com>
To: <gesta at tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] Turn but a stone


> On 2/3/07, Grattan wrote:
> ...> (*WBFLC minute 3 of 24th August 1998).
> >  The WBFLC minute states that information 
> > based on sight of partner's penalty card is 
> > unauthorized, so that the information that RHO 
> > can take the trick is unauthorized to LHO).
> >                                      ~ Grattan ~   +=+
> >
> 
> Unauthorized?  Has anyone ever heard mention 
> of this over here in ACBL land?  Grattan, does 
> this apply in ACBL land?  Also, has there ever
> been an appeal or ruling that LHO made a 
> disallowed play in the presence of this kind of UI?   
> I would like to read the case.
> 
> -Jerry Fusselman
> 
+=+ I think it might be injudicious were I to start 
telling the ACBL what its practices are. I prefer 
to learn such things from colleagues who are of the
ACBL. I do belong to a school that acknowledges 
the differences in practice and application of bridge 
law in various parts of the world - and primarily as 
between Zones 1 and 2.  I see nothing strange or 
undesirable in this, and when working for the WBF 
I look for the means to accommodate divergence 
and not to confront it. 
       The minute reads:
       "The committee considered the question of
information arising from possession of a penalty 
card. Information that the player must play the 
penalty card as the law requires is authorised and 
partner may choose the card to lead from the suit 
on the basis of that knowledge (e.g. may lead small 
from KQJx when partner's penalty card is the Ace).
Information based on sight of partner's penalty card 
is unauthorized so that, for example, the player may 
not choose to lead the suit if the suit is suggested by 
the penalty card and play of a different suit is a 
logical alternative". 
      Of the seven committee members present, four 
were ACBL members - Virgil Anderson, Joan
Gerard, the late Robert Howes, and William Schoder. 
As a guest Richard Colker was there, and for part of 
the meeting Chip Martel and Barbara Nudelman. I do 
not know if note was taken of the subject in Zone 2.
                              ~ Grattan ~   +=+