[blml] alertability [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

David Grabiner:

>Comparing scores with opponents at matchpoints in
>mid-game may itself be improper.

[snip]

>In a matchpoint game, are you supposed to tell your
>opponents that you will be shooting because you need
>tops, or playing conservatively in the last round
>because you think you need only an average to win?

Richard Hills:

On a first point, Law 90B4 prohibits unauthorised
comparison of scores, but that seems to apply only to
details of scores on particular boards (thus creating
possible UI problems if overheard by a contestant yet
to play a discussed particular board).  Announcing,
"I estimate we have 55% so we will be shooting for
victory in this last round" does not seem to me to be
necessarily a Law 90B4 violation.

On a second point, the word "you" is ambiguous.

If "you" is used in the singular sense, one having
made a unilateral decision to shoot based only on
one's personal (possibly over-pessimistic) assessment
of the results to date, then one may ethically stay
silent.

If "you" is used as a plural, or the Deep South idiom
"you-all", so a partnership agreement to shoot in the
final round, then the opponents are entitled to be
informed of your shooting star understanding (and
perhaps take relevant counter-measures by modifying
their own agreements to include more speculative
penalty doubles).


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, mentor
National Training Branch
(02) 6225 6285

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