[blml] DeWael School and WBFLC [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Herman De Wael]

Richard, this amounts to slander.
An dit shows that you are more interested in a personal attack on my 
good self, than in a serious discussion about the dWS.

richard.hills at immi.gov.au wrote:
> Grattan Endicott:
> 
>> +=+ I have refrained from comment because
>> I see nothing to be gained by it.  The best place
>> to look for guidance is in the statements under
>> Example 1 in the footnote to Law 75. I refer
>> to the sentence that begins :"This explanation
>> is an infraction of Law since ....".
>>       I do have a note of this correspondence in
>> my little black book, under 'Correct Procedure'.
>>                             ~ Grattan ~   +=+
> 
> Richard Hills:
> 
> The complete sentence in the Law 75 footnote that
> Grattan is referring to is:
> 
> "This explanation is an infraction of Law, since
> East-West are entitled to an accurate description
> of the North-South agreement (when this infraction
> results in damage to East-West, the Director shall
> award an adjusted score)."
> 
> Of course, Herman admits that players following
> his De Wael School advice are infracting Law 75C
> and the Law 75 footnote in order to avoid (what he
> believes is) an infraction of Law 75D2.
> 
> But the big problem with the De Wael School advice
> to a player to lie about their agreements during
> the auction, in accordance with the first sentence
> of Law 75D2, is that Herman has committed a severe
> error of omission in his advice to players by
> ignoring the _second_ sentence.
> 
> Law 75D2 (second sentence):
> 
>>> After calling the Director at the earliest legal
>>> opportunity (after the final pass, if he is to
>>> be declarer or dummy, after play ends, if he is
>>> to be a defender), the player must inform the
>>> opponents that, in his opinion, his partner's
>>> explanation was erroneous.
> 
> Richard Hills:
> 
> Even if one assumes that the De Wael School is
> legal, so that it is permitted to violate Law 75C
> and the Law 75 footnote during the auction in order
> to comply with Law 75D2, such violation is merely
> temporary and must be corrected - before the
> opening lead if declarer or dummy, or at the end of
> play if a defender.
> 

Of course it is.

> But never has the De Wael School advised players to
> merely temporarily lie.  Perhaps this is because of
> Herman's idiosyncratically illegal definitions of
> "partnership agreement" and "misinformation".
> 

If you believe this, you have not read everything I have written in 
the past 10 years. Of course I cannot be bothered to explain in every 
single post on this issue that the situation should be cleared up 
before the opening lead, but I dare you to find any single case in 
which I have stated that this "lie" as you put it is in any way legal 
and not subject to the ruling that the TD has to give on it.
Please read my webpage again. You'll find several instances in which 
it is clearly stated that the misinformation must be corrected before 
the opening lead.

If you cannot find any better arguments than this, then please admit 
defeat.

> Herman De Wael:
> 
>>>> there's nothing you can find in the lawbook that
>>>> I haven't already seen.
> 
> Richard Hills:
> 
> And therein lies the problem; the De Wael School is
> a very literal interpretation of the Lawbook, but it
> ignores the official reinterpretation of the Lawbook
> in the WBF Code of Practice.
> 

Please point me to any sentence in that Code of Practice that is 
relevant to these cases. Do you mean the one below? I think I have 
already answered that one.

> Grattan Endicott:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> The WBF has stated that "a player who, without
>> design, makes unauthorized information available to
>> his partner does not commit an infraction of law or
>> propriety; it is the use of that information that
>> is a breach of the laws".  There is no *design* to
>> convey UI when a player answers a question that the
>> laws require him to answer.
>>                                  ~ Grattan ~   +=+
> 
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
> Level 6 Aqua Training Suite, DIAC
> 02 6225 6776
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