[blml] Can you create your own UI?

[Eric Landau]

At 09:21 PM 3/3/07, Ed wrote:

>A question was raised on the BBO forums. Here's the scenario: You're
>dealer. The auction goes 1S-(P)-P-(2C)-....P-(P)-2D-(3C).
>
>You hesitated before passing in round 2. You know your partner is an
>ethical player, so you can expect his 2D bid to be clear cut. Is this
>information UI to you? (A poll in the BBO thread was split 50=50).
>Reference was made to Law 73D1, in particular the last clause
>"inferences from such variation may apporopriately be drawn only be
>an opponent, and at his own risk," with the claim that this "clearly"
>shows that you *are* constrained by UI here. It ain't clear to me. :-)

L73D1 is about "vary[ing] the tempo or manner in which a call or play 
is made" and has no bearing on the matter at all.

>One further question: if you *are* constrained by UI, where does it
>stop? Will partner be further constrained if you bid? Will it ever be
>possible to arrive at a reasonable contract?

The notion that your actions may be constrained due to the fact that 
your partner is known to maintain an extremely high standard of ethics 
seems contradictory to common sense and absurd on its face.  I guess 
the regular posters on BBO have even more idle time on their hands than 
we do.


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