[blml] Clarification...

[Eric Landau]

On Jul 18, 2007, at 6:58 PM, Brian wrote:

> To make these rules/CoP/whatever in any way fair to the players, you
> need something along the lines of
>
> 1) Psyching more than X times in any N boards is considered to create
> an implicit understanding.
>
> 2) Psyching the same call on more than X% of occasions is  
> considered to
> create an implicit understanding.
>
> And so on - I'm sure you get the idea. IMO, if you're going to  
> consider
> that players create implicit agreements by psyching, then players have
> the right to a much clearer idea of where the boundaries are than
> currently appears to be the case.
>
> No, it's not easy to do that. I've no idea what the values of X and N
> above should be, for example. Just pick a couple of numbers out of the
> air, if need be, because that will be far better than all the
> (location dependent, no doubt) suches and sufficientlies that we  
> appear
> to have at the moment.

The ACBL has not only followed Brian's prescription, but has, in  
doing so, discovered a simplifying case:  Once you decide to set X=0,  
the value of N no longer matters.


Eric Landau
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