[blml] Nondisclosure [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Richard Hills (hypothetical scenario):

[snip]

>>The bidding has gone:
>>
>>WEST      NORTH     EAST      SOUTH
>>Wayne     Richard   Konrad    Hashmat
>>---       1H        Pass      1S
>>
>>Richard alerts Hashmat's 1S response, explaining that
>>although it is a natural call, it is also a non-forcing
>>call.

[snip]

>>"This method over a natural 1H has not been disclosed
>>on their card nor was any verbal pre-alert given of
>>this response.

[snip]

Steve Willner:

>Was it required to be disclosed?  (It would be required
>in the ACBL.)

Richard Hills:

Yes and no.

Yes, ABF regulations require a natural but unusual call
to be disclosed by a contemporaneous alert.

No, the four-page ABF Standard System Card does not
require a 1S response to 1H to be disclosed _in advance_.
(The two-page ABF Simple System Card requires even less
advance disclosure of responses.)

See:  http://www.abf.com.au/system/index.html

While some opponents have complimented me on the full and
free meticulous detail on the Ali-Hills four-page ABF
Standard System Card, others have noted that reading our
CC is a sure cure for insomnia.

:-)

Steve Willner:

>If so, there's an infraction of L40B. I've tried
>repeatedly to ferret out how L40B violations are to be
>treated but so far with little agreement.

Richard Hills:

I would argue that if there is an infraction of Law 40B,
then the non-offending side - if damaged - should receive
a Law 12 score adjustment.  And whether or not the non-
offending side is damaged, the offending side should
either receive a Law 90 procedural penalty or a Law 91
disciplinary penalty, depending upon the gravity of the
Law 40B infraction.

Steve Willner:

>Wayne's original case differs in that the artificial
>overcall was a convention.  While no SO can forbid the
>natural but non-forcing 1S response (assuming there's
>nothing otherwise that makes it a convention),

[snip]

Richard Hills:

This raises an interesting point.

In the Ali-Hills Symmetric Relay system (copies of system
notes emailed on request) a 1NT response to 1H is an
artificial game force relay.  It is because of our
conventional 1NT response to 1H that our 1S response to
1H is non-forcing.

Is the consequential complement of a convention also a
convention?


Best wishes

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

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