[blml] Disclosure f2f

[Stefanie Rohan]

Guthrie <guthrie at ntlworld.com> wrote:
[B] Define a simple coherent playable subset of agreements as a 
*standard system*

Well, no.  As has been noted many times before, this would require beginners to learn an entire system apart from the one they are learning.  Having a worldwide system would be bad in other ways, too.  How many people in North America can find partners willing to play anything other than 5-card majors, strong NT and 2/1 at least promising another bid? Do we want adherence to the Ayatollah's Correct Bidding System (or any other system) to become a worldwide default?  I don't think so.  People who have the desire and opportunity to play in other countries can investigate the alert regulations there.  The British have no problem with it, and I suspect that this is the case all over Europe.  Americans would very rarely have the problem.  So who would be served by such an arrangement?

Cheers

Stefanie Rohan
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