[blml] [Fwd: severely limited importance]

[Herman De Wael]

I think there is a far easier way of dealing with this problem:
notice it, tell the pairs that what they are doing is illegal, watch 
them closely and then punish them if they still do it.
I don't believe there are too many players who realize this (I did, 
and once thought of employing a similar tactic with a weaker partner 
but decided against it). Those who do are easily discovered, and checked.

I even doubt if their partners are aware of it, and if they would 
allow it to continue if they were. Most weaker players are quite proud 
of their (limited) abilities and would not play one-way transfers een 
if they were allowed.

Jeff Easterson wrote:
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Betreff: severely limited importance
> Datum: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:17:49 +0200
> Von: Jeff Easterson <JffEstrsn at aol.com>
> An: blml-owner at amsterdamned.org
> 
> "Tolerance is the realisation that it isn't worthwhile to get excited
> about something"  Helmut Qualtinger
> 
> Duplicate bridge is based on certain fundamental concepts insuring
> equality.  Some are: each player/pair is vulnerable or not vulnerable
> the (roughly) same amount of hands, each player sits in the 1st position
> the same amount of times, and the same amount of times as he is second,
> third or fourth to call.  These premises are so fundamental that we
> rarely even think about them.
> 
> In most of the clubs in which I play or direct the usual movement is a
> mitchell with two boards per round.  Either complete (for example 13
> tables, 26 bds.) or incomplete (17 tables, 34 bds. but each pair plays
> only 26).  I daresay this is valid for the great majority of club games.
> 
> In some of these clubs there are a few pairs in which one of the players
> is much stronger than the other and definitely the dominant player of
> the pair.  These pairs have learned to always play EW.  In a typical
> mitchell (example 13 tables) the same player on EW is first hand for the
> first seven tables played (even amount of tables slightly changes this
> but a clever EW pair can counteract this) and then third hand for the
> last six.  It is usually possible for them to change positions after the
> seventh round and no one notices.  (Illegal of course, but rarely
> noticed or enforced.)
> In an incomplete mitchell (17 tables as above) one player is first hand
> for the first nine rounds, and third for only four rounds, even if they
> don't bother to change positions.
> Can this be remedied?  Yes, quite easily.  When placing the bds. on the
> tables work with "double-sets" of tables.  That is: table 1, bds. 1 &2;
> table 2, bds. 5 & 6; table 3, bds. 3 & 4; table 4, bds. 7 & 8.  And
> further in this way.
> 
> For what it's worth, JE
> 
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