[blml] GK&E (was: alertability) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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"They who sin with caution, 
                         whilst concealed,
 Grow impudently careless,
                          when revealed."
                 ~ Susannah Centlivre.
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> > 
> > +=+ See OB  10.E.2     ~ Grattan ~   +=+
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> I know the existence of OB10.E.2 makes clear that 
> such overcalls are, themselves, legal and unregulated 
> but doesn't, IMO, change the impression created by 
> OB11N2 that such overcalls aren't allowed. That 
> impression would not be created were there a direct 
> reference to 10E2 within 11n2.  Instead one would 
> form the impression that the bureaucrats are attempting 
> to eliminate sound natural bidding on a technicality 
> allowed them by a supine WBFLC.
> 
> Tim
> 
+=+ Well, the 'bureaucrats' are at least elected by the 
NBOs, and as for the supine position of the WBF, this
is linked to a conscious policy of decentralization in 
matters such as system policy which are susceptible to
local variation in the view of the WBF. It is interesting 
that in international competition overcalls of a natural 
bid of one of a suit that by agreement do not show a 
suit of at least four cards are directly forbidden in all but 
Category 1 events. (An exception is made of an overcall 
in no trumps.)
       In England, however, there is no excuse for a TD 
who is blind to the regulation in 10E2. 
                                           ~ G ~   +=+