[blml] L9A vs L73B1

[Konrad Ciborowski]

> 
> There is however deeper water in this pond:
> 
> You say that you know opponents' agreements, but how do you know that
> they
> haven't recently changed their agreements and that the opening bid in 1C
> now
> shows clubs so that no alert from West was missing after all?

OK, Sven either you know their agreement or you're not sure.
You can't have it both ways.

Case 1:
If you KNOW their agreement (and by "KNOW" I mean KNOWING - not
a suspicion, I mean you are 100% certain, because you
talked to them before this round, or have their CC in
front of your nose, whatever) then can you explain
to me why on earth would you need to ask? If you already
know the answer? You know the anwser, you know what
bid is correct with your hand - so why do you need
to ask at all? There is not reason to.
Thus you are not asking for your own
benefit - _only_ for the benefit of your partner.
The _only_ purpose of your question is to wake-up
partner - and it is illegal.


Now case 2: you are not sure. Yes, they played 1C 2+C
the last time you played them but hell, maybe they changed. 
Then you must assume that 1C is natural. What if you
ask and they say "1C is natural, we didn't alert, did we?".
Then you have just transmitted UI to partner and now
North is bound by L16 for no good reason.


> I might quite likely rule that
> your
> damage was self-inflicted because you failed to protect your interests by
> clarifying the situation. 
> 

The only problem that without screens this "protect your interest"
questions create tons of UI - come on, in real life no South
will _ever_ ask about the meaning of an _unaletered_ 1C call
with a flat 8 count. 

Intentional sending of UI is an infraction. Very severe one. 
And there is no law that lets you commit infractions
in order to "protect your interest". This is Wild West.

East - West play an artifical system, fail to alert, as a result
their opponents who go out of their way not to transmit
UI land in 4Sx for -800 and you let the result stand?
Because a player who wanted to avoid waking 
his partner up behaved ethically? This is beyond me.

Protecting your ass can never have priority over following
the law. 





-- 
Konrad Ciborowski
Kraków, Poland

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