[blml] Ignorantia juris non excusat (was Equity) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Brian]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:02 +0100 (BST)
"Tim West-Meads" <twm at cix.co.uk> wrote:

> Brian wrote:
>  
> > I think you're missing a point too, Herman. My main dislike of the
> > psyching situation is that players basically don't know at what 
> > point this "implicit understanding" will cut in. 
> 
> There's nothing to think about.  The awareness is disclosable as soon
> as one has it.  For the how/when of such disclosure see local
> regulations.
> 

OK, Tim, please enlighten me - and this is a genuine request, I don't
know the answers. My partner and I wish to play a session where
English regulations are in force. She knows that I'm prone to throwing
in a psychic 1 Spade (as opposed to a shaded opener) 3rd hand on
something like 1 in every 150-200 occasions. Let's say, to keep the
numbers round, that 40% of the time I psych I have a near-opener but
have bid a short suit, 40% of the time I have the suit but nothing
resembling an opener, and 20% of the time I have neither HCP nor suit.

Am I to tell her to alert every one of my 3rd hand 1S openers, and
explain as above each time? Do we in fact have an implicit agreement
that 1S can be our normal 11-15 5+S or occasionally any of those 3 hand
types? What *is* the threshold before we have established such an
agreement? Do we have an implicit agreement to do it only for as long
as she remembers the last occasion, and when she's forgotten about it,
the agreement vanishes into thin air? If so, then what about if she and
I have different memory capabilities - it is possible for me to have
that implicit agreement, because I remember the last time I did it, but
for her not to have it, because she doesn't remember it? If that counts
as forgetting ones agreements, do we have to record a catalogue of our
psyches, so that we can remind each other of them before play? 


I really think there's such a thing as useless information, and warning
opps of a propensity to psyche a bid at *below* a certain threshold of
probability is counter-productive. 


Brian. 

- -- 

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFGn2ReX39R2QaHMdMRAmrGAJ98aguAZfCSHNP7dKEhAvsONuohbACgyv+s
74CFZ8buq2k1KYehv/ZODr4=
=n6fU
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----