[blml] Réf. : Re: Protecting yourself after failure to alert

[Alain Gottcheiner]

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De : Ed Reppert
 
Hm. A weak 2 bid in clubs is itself alertable. Either way, I would
argue that once a pair agrees to play it as weak, the same rules
regarding responses apply as when the opening bid is at the 2 level
in some other suit, with the meaning "weak 2 bid". Granted, the alert
regulation doesn't say so explicitly, but then I've long been of the
opinion that the alert regulations were written by someone with no
experience whatsoever in writing rules for a game.
 
 
IBTD. The fault is not with lawmakers, it is with the complexity of the set
of possible conventions.
 
In Belgium, nonforcing changes of suit in competition are alertable.
Nonforcing changes of suit after pass aren't. It has been written that the
latter is more fundamental, ergo nonforcing competitive new suits by PH aren
t. But this doesn't take into account the fact that, according to most 
nonforcists", the lower bound for their competitive new suits is lower than
for a new suit at level 2 by PH.
 
Transfer responses over 1NT aren't alertable. But some partnerships might do
it on a 4-carder (Italian style : transfer-then-minor shows 4-5). Unexpected
 therefore alertable. Is this written somewhere ?
 
Morality : when in doubt, alert. And when in doubt, it is indeed alertable.
 
Best regards
 
  Alain
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