[blml] natural bids and conventional bids

[Eric Landau]

At 12:48 AM 1/7/07, richard.hills wrote:

>Richard Hills:
>
> >>Under the ABF Alert Regulation, all calls are either "conventional"
> >>or alternatively "natural".  A "natural" call is defined as "not
> >>conventional".  A "conventional" call is defined as per Chapter One
> >>of The Fabulous Law Book.
>
>Eric Landau:
>
> >And as far as the Law is concerned, that is all that is necessary.
>
>Richard Hills:
>
>Not so fast.
>
>There is also Law 40D, which gives sponsoring organisations the
>right to create further classifications (as, for example, the EBU
>creation of an Amber Psyche classification).

I'm not sure exactly what an "Amber Psyche" is, but if it is not 
conventional, then the legality of its "classification" must derive 
from the second sentence of L40D, which allows regulation of light 
opening bids.  That power applies to any opening bid that meets the 
"King or more below average strength" criterion, regardless of whether 
or not it is deemed "conventional".  It is only when applying the first 
sentence that we might care (that the WBF officially doesn't is 
unfortunate, but off-topic), and that requires only the purely binary 
distinction between "conventional" and "not conventional".


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