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

[Tim West-Meads]

Richard wrote:

> It seems to me that Tim and MadDog believe that true psyches can be
> disclosed whenever past relevant partnership experience has occurred.

I can seldom disclose *when* MadDog has psyched based on a single bid (he 
doesn't have any "tells").  I can only disclose that in certain 
sequences he is, insofar as I am aware, slightly more likely to psych 
than would a stranger of similar experience.  I consider "Systemically 
15-18 balanced but very occasionally he does it on a weak hand with a 6 
card suit" to be a more accurate description than "Systemically 15-18 
balanced or weak with a 6-card suit".  Opponents would, IMO, be misled 
by the latter description into thinking our system was in some way 
designed to handle the weak variant.

Even if we label this a "partnership understanding" (and I still don't 
think we should) it doesn't actually make any difference.  When John 
chooses to bid with the weak type his choice isn't *based* on an 
expectation that I will realise he has done so. Indeed his expectation 
is that I will bid according to our systemic agreements.

>  By ethically disclosing their 4441 tendencies, they would then
> automatically receive an "illegal convention" ruling if I was their 
> local director.

And I'd have to sack you as a director until you learnt what a 
convention was ;)

Tim