[blml] Obviously this is the prime duty

[David Burn]

[DALB]

> Of course, this may require superhuman feats of doublethink by players -
but
> these are not impossible. I recall a deal from a late round of the Spring
> Foursomes, a major English competition, a great many years ago. David
Price
> and I bid the North-South cards (it does not matter what they were) thus:
> 
> West      North     East      South
>           Burn                Price
> 2D (1)    2NT (2)   Pass      3D (3)
> Pass      3H  (4)   Pass      4C (5)
> Pass      4H  (6)   Pass      6D (7)
> Pass      6H  (8)   Pass      Pass
> Pass
> 
> (1) Multi
> (2) Price played this as minors, a suggestion that I had vetoed (we were a
> new partnership), but he alerted it because he was convinced that my veto
> was not in force for this event.

[HdW]

and you meant it as natural, so not alertable. OK, then you had UI.

[DALB]

> (3) I, who was convinced that my veto was in force for this event, altered
> 3D because it was a transfer to hearts. At no time did our opponents ask
any
> questions. Here we were in the position I described in an earlier post -
> although we were not giving explanations, our alerts in themselves would
> misinform our opponents, but neither of us knew who was doing the
> misinforming since we both genuinely did not know what our actual methods
> were, and we could not therefore apply L75D2.

[HdW]

He intended 3Di as preference, which would not be alertable.
You OTOH, had to interpret this as transfer to hearts, which would be 
alertable.
Now you did break L75D2 by alerting. OK?

[DALB]

Not OK at all. As I have said, neither of us knew which of us was following
our actual agreement. Law 75D2 required me to summon the director only if I
knew that I had given a misexplanation (technically a mis-alert), but I did
not know this. Similarly, Law 75D2 required Price to summon the director
only if he knew he had given a misexplanation, but he did not know this.
Neither of us therefore broke Law 75D2.

[HdW]

Now David. Suppose I had been sitting in your seat, and I had not 
alerted 3Di, and my Price had woken up, and there had been no UI. What 
would you have ruled?

[DALB]

Six hearts doubled down six. What else?

David Burn
London, England