[blml] alertability

[Eric Landau]

At 12:48 PM 1/16/07, Ed wrote:

>On Jan 16, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Eric Landau wrote:
>
> > Consider this situation:  Partner makes a call for which we have an
> > explicitly agreed point range.  I know from previous experience with
> > this partner that he will sometimes make that call with less than our
> > agreed minimum, but only if we estimate that we are having a bad game
> > to that point.  That's clearly an implicit agreement, which I must
> > disclose.  Am I also obligated to tell the opponents whether or not we
> > estimate that we are having a bad game?
>
>If you're not so obligated, then you are in effect permitted to have
>an encrypted agreement. As I don't think the latter is the case, it
>seems you must disclose your estimate (I note that your partner's
>estimate may differ).

If my estimate differs from partner's, have I not misled my opponents 
as to what partner might actually hold?  Am I obligated to reveal my 
"partnership experience" as to how successful we have been in the past 
at estimating our game?  Do we really want to go there?


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