[blml] GK&E (was: alertability)

[Eric Landau]

At 09:45 AM 1/17/07, Ed wrote:

>On Jan 16, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Eric Landau wrote:
>
> > nothing you know about your agreements may be withheld if the
> > opponents express a desire to be given all the details you are
> > aware of.
>
>  From the ACBL Alert regulation:
>
>"The opponents need not ask exactly the "right" question. Any request
>for information should be the trigger. Opponents need only indicate
>the desire for information - all relevant disclosure should be given
>automatically."
>
>I submit that Eric should have placed the period above after the word
>"withheld", and omitted the "if" clause.

Any request for information should, IMO, be the trigger for a suitable 
explanation, namely one that tells what you would expect most opponents 
to want to know.  But if you spew forth every detail, possible 
follow-up, negative inference, possibly relevant partnership 
experience, etc. etc. you do a disservice to the vast majority of your 
opponents, who really just want to know what your bid means.  That 
said, there will be some atypical opponents who will want to hear it 
all.  All I was trying to say is that if they really want it, they have 
the right to hear it in all its grandeur and glory.  But it's foolish 
to think that every explanation of every bid must include every last 
bit of information to which the opponents are entitled to know if they 
care to, or that we could continue to fit 24- or 26-board sessions into 
a mere three or four hours if it were required to.

Eric Landau                     ehaa at starpower.net

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