[blml] European Youth Championships or have we really cometothis

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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+=+ 'completely irrelevant'?  I would want to know
whether he passed as a matter of bridge judgement
or because the partnership methods required him to
pass. I would want to reassure myself that the players
consulted by the Director were given this information.
Then I would want to know what proportion of them
adopted the Alan Gottcheiner position.
        I think we are lacking a certain amount of
information that could affect judgement, and I am not
prepared to support or condemn the ruling (whether
it allowed 33% or 0% of 4H) without it.
        Mike Amos comments, more recently, that
"Having said that, no one has attended to the ruling itself.  
I had always understood that if we decided to disallow 
a call for UI reasons then that call was not included in the 
weightings.  It is certainly illegal in England "  In EBL and
WBF tournaments the English inhibition does not apply. 
When the WBF Appeals Committee decided to allow of 
weighted rulings there was a strong body of opinion that 
equity requires that we allow the call a proportion of the 
time if that was judged to be what would happen had 
no irregularity occurred. 

                       ~ Grattan ~   +=+
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Burrows" <wjburrows at gmail.com>
To: "Ken Richardson" <ken.deri31 at ntlworld.com>
Cc: "blml" <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] European Youth Championships or have we really 
cometothis


> On 25/07/07, Ken Richardson <ken.deri31 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> Close. Just 33% out.
>>
>> 0% of 4H= NS +420 and 100% of 4D-2 NS +100
>>
>> Why North passes over 3D is beyond me.
>
> This last statement is completely irrelevant to the ruling.
>
> Wayne
>