[blml] Disclosure (was Psyches & deviations)

[Steve Willner]

> From: richard.hills at immi.gov.au
[L40E1 in part]
> ".....including a requirement that both members of a partnership
> employ the same system (such a regulation must not restrict style and
> judgement, only method)."
> 
> The problem with this Law is that it uses undefined terms such as the
> word "style" (and this word is not used anywhere else in the Lawbook),

That's exactly the problem.  No one contests that "everything" must be 
disclosed; the question is what may be regulated.

> Are "style" and "system" both partnership understandings?

People seem to lose all rationality when psychs are discussed, so let's 
discuss a simpler question.  The ACBL has a requirement that both 
partners must play the same system.  Suppose my partner and I have 
different habits when 4=5 in the minors.  One of us always opens 1D, and 
the other always opens 1C.  We've discussed it and simply can't agree. 
There's no doubt at all that this situation -- whether you call it 
"understanding," "agreement," or something else -- must be disclosed. 
But are we violating the rules about playing the same system?  (I'm not 
aware of any official ACBL interpretation on the matter.  As a practical 
answer, nobody objects to this practice.  And further, it's an 
illustration only, not applicable to present regular partnership, which 
plays strong club.)

> In my opinion, the demilitarised zone marking the border
> between a true psyche and a partnership understanding has
> its landmines labelled "frequency" and its barbed wire
> fences labelled "variability".

I have a very different opinion, but let's concentrate on the issue 
above.  Here the frequency is 100%.