[blml] Two UI/AI cases

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alain Gottcheiner" <agot at ulb.ac.be>
To: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:20 PM
Subject: [blml] Two UI/AI cases

> Here are two cases from last saturday's tournament.
> 
> 1. pass 1C pass pass
> 1S 1NT ...pass pass
> ?
> 
> Would you allow : a) a double  b) a new-suit bid  c) a 2S 
> bid, each time on a well-textured 9-count?  
> In other words, what is suggested by the slow pass ?
> 
+=+ The answer to this is 'action other than Pass'.
        The 9 count is, I assume, within the range for the 1S bid.
        That being so, I would want a lot of convincing that any 
        action may be allowed other than Pass . A question might
        arise over bid of a second suit; the Director/AC has to 
       decide whether this is 'evident' to the extent that Pass is 
       not a logical alternative, but the hurdle must be kept high. 
       Yet stay! Since you ask the question someone somewhere 
       must have taken a different view. I wonder what elephant 
       trap we are walking into? Telling some distinguished and 
       competent AC that it is wrong? That is not for me to do,
       so let's have the full story.
                                                  ~ Grattan ~   +=+