[blml] By the pricking of my thumbs [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Ed Reppert]

On Mar 9, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Tim West-Meads wrote:

> Ed wrote:
>
>>
>> Who said it wasn't an irregularity?
>
> Ummm. Richard - in the post to which I originally responded saying I
> believed it WAS an irregularity.

Was the question resolved? I'm with Richard - if the inadvertent call  
is cancelled, then in effect it never happened. How can something  
that never happened be an irregularity?

> The LHO of the player making the wrong call - obviously.

Sorry. If it had been obvious to me, I wouldn't have asked the question.

Extraneous information from partner's mannerisms is UI.

>>> What of the requirement to make bids in the proper form (1H I mean
>>> 1S is NOT proper form)?
>>
>> "1H I mean 1S" is not what I posited the player said. He said "1H",
>> which IS proper form. Then he said "Oops, I didn't mean to make that
>> call."
>
> Stop being a tosser.  "1H, oops I didn't mean to.." is also not the
> proper form.  There was no "pause for thought" between the "1H" and  
> the
> "oops .." so why try and separate the two statements?

I did not and do not understand what you're getting at here. Can you  
enlighten me?

> My point is that an inadvertent call is an irregularity.

Not proven, I think. See above. :-)

>   Opps may legitimately call the TD.

A player (except dummy) may legitimately call the TD at any time  
(though I suppose if the TD deems the player is wasting the TD's  
time, he could rule the call an infraction of Law 74B5).

> Information gained therefrom is UI to OS, etc, etc.

What of Law 16C1?