[blml] Obviously this is the prime duty

[David Burn]

[SP]

Who has ever said anything about telling partner which alternative the
player selects?

[DALB]

No one said anything about it explicitly, but it is what I had in mind. In
Konrad's example:

West     North     East     South
         1H        1NT      ?

where West has explained 1NT as "either Raptor or natural, I'm not sure", a
practical possibility may be for the TD to tell South "you can decide (and
tell North) whether you're bidding over Raptor or bidding over natural". As
I have said, this is illegal - but a way round this illegality occurs to me.
The offence here is that North will act on the UI transmitted by South. The
director could ask East-West if they minded this, and since East-West have
caused all the problems in the first place, they ought not to mind,
whereupon the director can obtain East-West's request to use L81C8 to waive
the penalties that would otherwise be incurred by North-South under L16.

In trying to accomplish the difficult task of implementing the Laws (which
were designed for play at levels where people at least had a system, even if
they occasionally forgot it), bridge clubs face many problems that are
incapable of resolution. I don't mind in the least if clubs occasionally
resort to methods that would not be countenanced in higher-level tournament
play.

David Burn
London, England