[blml] Clarification... [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Eric Landau:

>The WBFLC need to define observable criteria that indicate a
>tendency has become an implicit understanding.  "Psychic" is a
>red herring that can only distract from the real issue.

Richard Hills:

President Bill Clinton once said, "Abortion should be safe,
legal and rare."  My interpretation of the criteria laid down
in the WBF Code of Practice is that, "Psyches should be unsafe,
legal and rare."  A particular rare psyche should not be made
safe for partner by a player _always_ perpetrating that rare
psyche.

That is, in my opinion, a player's general permission to
deviate from his side's announced understandings is limited to
those cases when their partner has no more reason to be aware
of the deviation than have their opponents.

In my opinion there is no general permission to _repeatedly_
deviate from announced partnership understandings, since such
repetition leads to implicit partnership understandings which
then form part of the partnership's methods and must be
disclosed (if legal) or refrained from (if illegal - such as,
for example, a banned HUM method of automatically opening 1H
with 0-4 hcp in third seat).


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
Level 6 Aqua Training Suite, DIAC
02 6225 6776

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