[blml] European Youth Championships or have we really come to this

[Robin Barker]

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From: blml-bounces at amsterdamned.org
[mailto:blml-bounces at amsterdamned.org]On Behalf Of Grattan Endicott
Sent: 25 July 2007 09:06
To: blml
Subject: Re: [blml] European Youth Championships or have we really
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Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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        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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So player A avoids taking advantage of the UI and passes and scores 4D,
but player B uses UI and scores 4H, ruled back to 30% of 4D and 70% 
of 4H.  Player B (or should that be "C")  seems to have broken the law 
(both L16 and L73) and yet is getting a better score than player B.
This does not seem to be "equitable".

So in this position a player has to use UI (deliberately) to get the 
weighted score, no wonder the Americans (and Nigel) don't like L12C3 
if it abused in this way.

Harrumph!

Robin

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