[blml] Countdown

[WILLIAM SCHODER]

If what you say Mr. Landau is that evaluation of players' abilities is not 
relevant to irtational, then I think you are on the right track.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Landau" <ehaa at starpower.net>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Countdown


> On Nov 1, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Tim West-Meads wrote:
>
> > Eric wrote:
> >
> >>> Perhaps I should ask a different question - does "normal" include
> >>> the bizarre/inconceivable for the class of player involved?
> >>
> >> It would seem to, per the new wording of the footnote.  A play
> >> can't  be "bizarre/inconceivable" -- or, for that matter,
> >> "irrational" --  while simultaneously being neither careless nor
> >> inferior.
> >
> > Of course it can.  A trump squeeze might be technically superior
> > (say 60%
> > chance of success against 50%) but happens to fail.  It might also be
> > "inconceivable" (ie beyond the wildest improbable dreams of ever being
> > understood/recognised/attempted) by my dear Mrs Guggenheim - who
> > thought
> > it obvious that she was simply taking the heart finesse again ("it
> > worked
> > the first time dear").
> >
> > Hamman wouldn't have claimed in the same position of course - he would
> > have played the trump squeeze out and gone off.
>
> Point taken.  I admit I was not thinking in terms of plays that might
> be bizarrely or inconceivably careful or superior.  Since "normal"
> includes, in addition to the unarguably normal, the otherwise
> abnormally careless or inferior, it must exclude the otherwise
> abnormally careful or superior, else it would include everything.
> For Mrs. Guggenheim to find a trump squeeze is neither normal nor
> "normal"; for Mr. Hamman to overlook one is only the latter.
>
>
> Eric Landau
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> Silver Spring MD 20910
> ehaa at starpower.net
>
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