[blml] Marvin French's Procedures for handling UI - part one[SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Sven Pran]

> On Behalf Of Ed Reppert
.........
> > It has never been a Law 16 requirement to decide whether or not a
> > suggested action is logical.
> 
> Um. I accept that is current (and possibly past, though I have no
> experience there) practice. But... The law says "the partner may not
> choose from among logical alternative actions one that could
> demonstrably have been suggested over another by the extraneous
> information." That "from among logical alternative actions" says to
> me that the suggested action must be logical. In fact, it says to me
> that if a player chooses an action that is not a member of the set
> "logical alternative actions", he has done nothing illegal.

Unless of course when the UI (strongly?) suggests an action that otherwise
would be illogical but because of the UI in fact becomes a logical action.

An example that comes to my mind: I have absolutely no reason to even
imagine that my partner is void in a particular suit and wants a ruff until
he gives me UI which suggests just this situation.

Leading the involved suit was definitely not a logical alternative before
the occurrence of the UI but sure is now.

Regards Sven