[blml] Announce or alert?

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
gesta at tiscali.co.uk
[also geggeg at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Harald Skjæran
To: Bridge Laws Mailing List
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] Announce or alert?


On 15/11/2007, Sven Pran <svenpran at online.no> wrote:
> On Behalf Of Robert Geller
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> Because "announcements" are alerts with automatically
> added explanations they can be of great benefit to the
> announcing side in avoiding misunderstandings.  In any
> case, the JCBL tourney regulations don't authorize
> announcements.

Neither do we in Norway, nor (AFAIK) in the rest of
Scandinavia.

That's correct. But our Laws Committee (or at least part
of it) is considering implementing announcements in our
regulations. I seem to remember having heard that's the
case in Denmark too, but I might be wrong on that point.

+=+ It does seem to me that announcements are a good
thing when the announced meaning is clearly something
that the partners will not get wrong. Opening bids and
responses thereto, for example. I am less sure of them
in competitive situations. I offer opinion that experiment
initially could be confined to meanings of the first type.
After experience consider further developments.
                                    ~ Grattan ~   +=+