[blml] What does this mean?

[Sven Pran]

> On Behalf Of Nigel
> [L74]
> C. Violations of Procedure
> The following are considered violations of procedure:
> 1. using different designations for the same call.
> 
> [Wayne Burrows]
> What is intended by this law?
..........
> Sven is right: the purpose of L74 is to ban such cunning ploys :(

An amusing variation of this was developed within a certain region in Norway
when STOP was introduced: Our STOP regulations originally included that STOP
should be used with 1NT openings that could be weaker than 15 HCP.

Pretty soon they began declaring their 1NT openings as 12-17; if they bid
1NT with STOP it was 12-14 and without STOP it was 15-17.

As the Secretary General later told me: We had to remove that part of the
STOP regulation because it was completely impossible to make those people
understand that such an agreement is illegal!

Regards Sven