[blml] Réf._:_Re:__the_De_Wael_Question__[SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nigel" <Guthrie at NTLworld.com>
To: "BLML" <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] Réf._:_Re:__the_De_Wael_Question__[SEC=UNOFFICIAL]


> [Tim West-Meads]
> Herman's argument is (I believe) somewhat more intricate than that.
> His position is that even if you haven't actually agreed which RKCB
> responses you are playing he will rule that you have an agreement to
> play 3041 if you bid 5C with 3KCs and your partner (with 1 KC) correctly
> guesses that you have 3KCs rather than 1/4. Thus because he is *going*
> to rule the existence of such an agreement you aren't lying if you tell
> opps you *have* such an agreement. IMO his approach breaches the third
> law of Librarianship* but, technically, not the laws of bridge.
>
> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Space
>
> [Grattan Endicott]
> +=+ As a player Herman is in no position to rule anything. I have
> avoided the use of 'lie'. Herman is announcing an agreement that does
> not exist. If he does that he will be required to show that the laws
> authorize him to do so. See minute 8, WBFLC, 24th August 1998.
>
> [nige1]
> Available from the Unseen University Library.
>
+=+ "The Secretary drew attention to those who argued that where
an action was stated in the laws (or regulations) to be authorized, other
actions if not expressly forbidden were also legitimate. The Committee
ruled that this is not so; the Scope of the Laws states that the laws define
correct procedure and anything not specified in the laws is, therefore,
'extraneous' and it may be deemed an infraction of law if information
deriving from it is used in the auction or play." WBFLC. 24 Aug 98.
                                               ~ G ~ +=+