[blml] Disclosure f2f

[Stefanie Rohan]

> - systems are growing more *sophisticated*
> (Transfers, relays, 
> splinters, fit jumps, Jacoby 2N, negative,
> competitive, responsive, 
> support, and lead directing doubles and redoubles,
> Multis, low level 
> and exclusion RKCB, Lebensohl, 2 way Drury and on
> and on and on).
>
What fun! I can't wait to start teaching the old dears
in my club all of this stuff so that they can alert
their deviations from it!

I think that you overestimate the impact of online
bridge. Most of the club players I know have never
played online and never will. 

In your examples, well... you and your sister knew you
were going to the French Club, and could have
investigated the alert regulations. Requiring all
players in France and North America to alert their
three-card minor openings negates the whole purpose of
alerts.

As to the experience in Reading (was it?) The pair who
were nasty are clearly to blame. This kind of
behaviour is addressed in a different way than with
alert regulations.

However, it would be nice if clubs had available a
summary of the disclosure regulations (rather like the
one produced by the EBU after the changes in the
Orange Book.) Even the ACBL convention card, with its
different-coloured ink, is helpful in this regard.

Nigel, it would be good if you accepted the fact that
there will never be a "global system" that all bridge
players will learn so that they can alert their
deviations from it. Even if this system were somehow a
good thing, it would be impossible in practice -- I
have mentioned before how numerous are the long-time
players who have not mastered their own system. I
think that you are wasting your time and mental
effort.