[blml] Disclosure (was Psyches & deviations) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Tim West-Meads:

>There are three categories of disclosable material (and I am not that
>concerned how we label them but given the current usage in law I go
>with:
>
>1. "Agreements": Tend to be systemic in nature, regulable
>2. "Understandings": Tend to be stylistic in nature and not regulable
>3. "Experience": Knowledge additional to 1&2 above.

Richard Hills:

>>Tim says that 15-17 hcp balanced is the normal meaning of MadDog's
>>1NT overcall, but as a matter of "style" the meaning of the 1NT
>>overcall may be varied to 5-9 hcp with an unspecified 6-card suit.

Tim West-Meads:

>I said nothing of the sort.  John's occasional aberrations are not
>matters of style or judgement - they are gross violations of system
>in a manner I have become aware of through experience.

Richard Hills:

My apologies; I misconstrued the nature of Tim's argument, so our
differences of philosophy are fewer than I originally thought.

In my opinion there is only one category of disclosable material;
"partnership understandings".  In my opinion subsets of "partnership
understandings" include "partnership agreements" and "partnership
experience".  So therefore, in my opinion, it is a contradiction in
terms to state:

"gross violations of system in a manner I have become aware of through
experience."

For what it is worth, I believe it is more useful to have a reputation
as a psycher than to actually psyche.  I recently completed a marathon
at the Aussie Summer Festival of Bridge, with my deals played being:

128 in the Last Train
68 in the Men's Pairs
64 in the Swiss Pairs
180 (out of a possible 280 - I showed a modicum of sense by electing
to play in a team-of-six) in the Southwest Pacific Teams
16 (out of a possible 32) in the National Open Teams Round-of-16
6 (as a substitute) in the Speedball Teams

Not until the Speedball Teams did I get around to psyching.  And even
then it was immediately obvious to my three opponents that I had
probably psyched, since I opened 6NT as dealer.  Full details at:

http://www.abf.com.au/events/not/2007/bulletins/12sun28.pdf


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, mentor
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