[blml] L9A vs L73B1

[Konrad Ciborowski]

> Jan Peter Pals wrote:
> > East (dealer) opens 1C, not alerted. This may be a doubleton in a
> > 5crd-major system and is alertable in the NL. Against this opening, NS
> > play an artificial defence, based on transfers.
> > 
> > South, who knows about the possible doubleton C, holds:
> > 
> > K9
> > 62
> > QJ8
> > AKQ942
> > 
> > He would like to bid 1S (=transfer to clubs OR showing diamonds and
> > hearts). 
> > Over a 'natural' 1C (min. 3crd)  he would have bid 1NT.
> > 
> > South does not know what will happen: 
> > a) If he bids 1S, partner may not alert and jump to 3S. 
> > b) If he bids 1NT, partner may alert, explain spades and diamonds OR
> > hearts and clubs, and jump to 3H.
> > 
> > Is south allowed to ask the meaning, or draw attention to the
> > alertability of 1C?
> 
> I would not rule against someone who asks the meaning of a bid when it 
> clearly defines his system. I would almost rule against someone who 
> does not ask and solely relies on an alert.

You mean - the lack of alert? So you'd rule against someone who
didn't ask about the meaning of an unalerted call in order
not to transmit UI? Unbelievable.

It reminds me of a team called West Lvov who once played in the Polish
Third Division (more than 10 years ago, so no screens were used). 
There was a 1H opening and the Ukrainian guy gasped at it and asked his
LHO in Polish, with this inimittable Ukrainian accent: "do you psyche?".




-- 
Konrad Ciborowski
Kraków, Poland

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