[blml] natural bids and conventional bids

[Wayne Burrows]

On 10/01/07, gesta at tiscali.co.uk <gesta at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
> [also grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk]
> *****************************************
> "Beware when the great God lets
> loose a thinker on this planet."
>             ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Reppert" <ereppert at rochester.rr.com>
> To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at rtflb.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 4:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [blml] natural bids and conventional bids
>
>
> >
> >. In
> > theory, at least, the SO tracks these things, so
> > that a player will be known to have made a
> > particular psyche, which may have been
> > classified green or amber in the past, but now
> > there is cause to rate the latest iteration as red,
> > because of frequency. It is under Law  40B that
> > the psyche classification regulation falls.
> >
> +=+ Every psyche form goes to a panel of three*
> who comment individually. If any one of them raises
> a question about a form it goes to the next meeting
> of the Laws & Ethics Committee. The classification
> of psyches may be changed by the committee, after
> a question to the partnership if appropriate -a few
> are reclassified as red, a rather greater number in
> my experience are reclassified as green.
>     I am actually leaving in a couple of hours time for
> today's meeting of the committee [as an EBU Vice
> President I am entitled to attend, speak (it does not
> say 'be heard' :-), but not vote]. The papers for the
> meeting include about eighteen new cases plus one
> case where the committee will consider a response
> from a partnership to a question raised with it. The
> cases come from competitions at all levels. There is
> also one further case where the committee has called
> for the psyche record of one particular player - eleven
> recorded psyches between January 2002 and August
> 2006, the player having been invited to comment on
> the last three occasions (all of these three with the
> same partner, May 2005, May 2006 and August 2006).

Three psyches in 21 months.  Does someone think he does not psyche often enough?

Wayne