[blml] Disclosure f2f

[gesta at tiscali.co.uk]

Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
[following address discontinued:
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guthrie" <guthrie at ntlworld.com>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] Disclosure f2f


>
> A global standard is an far-off ideal to which we can aspire.
>
> As explained earlier, many times, however, you don't need a globally
> imposed standard system to allow a more comprehensive global set of
> *basic disclosure rules*.  Local standard systems can achieve that
> sub-goal.
>
> It may be hard to persuade local beneficiaries from jingoist local
> legislatures but my experience coincides with Brian's: Players find it
> hard to understand current over-sophisticated, over-subjective,
> incomplete laws. Rulings seem incomprehensible, subjective and
> inequitable (dictionary sense). Chauvinistic regulation variants are
> the last straw for many would be-players.
>
+=+ I am not sure what is intended by 'beneficiaries' in the above.
However, tournament by tournament, I would think that what is
most useful to players is alerting or announcement of meanings
that are unfamiliar among the players.
                                                          ~ Grattan ~   +=+