[blml] alertability

[gesta at tiscali.co.uk]

Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
[also grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk]
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"Beware when the great God lets
loose a thinker on this planet."
             ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nigel" <Guthrie at NTLworld.com>
To: "BLML" <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] alertability


> IMO,  rather than insist that you describe each 
> alerted call in the auction, the law should recommend 
> that you answer the question "From your partner's 
> calls what can you tell about his hand?"
> 
> Apart from the main meaning of each individual call, 
> there are subtle inferences that gradually accumulate 
> into significance during successive calls; and 
> probabilities that reinforce each other to become 
> near certainties.
> 
> IMO, most players feel justified in refraining from 
> divulging such holistic understandings.
> 
+=+ And yet, a player is authorized to ask 
questions ...."about relevant calls available 
but not made".  If he is not given the meaning 
of each call made does it not become far too 
complicated to identify what of this kind may 
be asked about? +=+

> Apart from improving disclosure, it would 
> save time.
> 
+=+ I have doubts about that because of the 
tenuous nature of meaning detached from its
sources.            ~ G ~   +=+