[blml] Disclosure f2f

[Robert Geller]

In the case of Japan, our system and alert regulations
are available in English at the following:
http://www.jcbl.or.jp/english/tournament.html#03

Obviously visitors from overseas will deviate from the
alerting regs once in a while till they get used to them,
and no one will penalize them or get mad at them as
long as they act in good faith, but it's reasonable to expect
that players visiting any country will do the best they can 
to comply with that country's procedures, as long as the
rules are properly written up and available.

I agree completely with Stefanie that local regulations are fine,
rather than arbitrarily creating a "one size fits all" global standard 
system.

-Bob


Stefanie Rohan さんは書きました:
>
>
>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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Robert (Bob) Geller,     Tokyo, Japan        geller at nifty.com