[blml] When not asking a question changes your agreements

[Steve Willner]

> From: "Stefanie Rohan" <daisy_duck at btopenworld.com>
> I don't understand how a player can profit from this manoeuvre.

I can give you a practical example.  My partner and I use an artificial 
1D opening bid, alerted rather than announced.  Some opponents have a 
"sophisticated" defense: an immediate 2D bid is "Michaels" (showing both 
majors), whereas asking for an explanation of 1D and then bidding 2D is 
natural.  Very clever!  (Neither meaning for 2D is alertable in the ACBL.)

As a practical matter, I would not expect to get any redress if 
opponents profit by this method.  (In some games -- not ones I regularly 
play in! -- I'd expect to be told off for using unfamiliar methods.)