[blml] Fwd: Is ordinary Stayman no longer artificial?

[Jerry Fusselman]

[nige1]
I tried to define "Natural", "Artificial", and "Conventional" in an
article for a magazine. I found it hard. I concluded that in most
jurisductions, "Natural" seems to mean "whatever is popular locally",
however bizarre.

[Jerry]
Your conclusion is surely a bit of an oversimplification.  Ordinary
Stayman is popular locally, but your definition of natural would not
accept ordinary Stayman, would it?  What definitions did you come up
with?

To me, a definition of artificial that excludes ordinary Stayman is
inadequate.  And I think that is what we have in the 2007 laws.

-Jerry Fusselman