[blml] San Diego Lightfoot Sue [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Gampas at aol.com]

In a message dated 07/09/2007 12:05:48 GMT Standard Time,  
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk writes:

>On the question of misbid/misexplanation there is no legal
>basis  for any other stance. However, I do have one disquiet,
>namely that the SO  may have licensed the use of convention X
>on condition that it may not be  misused or psyched. There would
>then be an infraction of a regulation  established under Law 40D,
>independent of and without regard to  misexplanation. Such a
>condition is not excluded by the unrestricted  language of Law
>40D. The remedy would then be whatever remedy is  prescribed
>for illegal use of a  convention.
~ Grattan ~ 
>+=+
 
I think it improbable that the SO would have not allowed "system on over  
Cappelletti" which is what this pair were using in the Diego-gate case. Indeed,  
such restrictions on the use of a convention normally apply when a convention  
lends itself to abuse. For example, a "Watson double of a freely bid 3NT" by 
the  opponents, asking partner to lead a suit other than the one in which you 
have  overcalled, cannot be used when you have psyched. Similarly a 
third-in-hand one  spade psyche with a weak two bid in clubs might in itself be a breach 
if  partner's most likely method of progressing the auction is to begin with  
Drury. Neither of these is remotely applicable to the cited  case.