[blml] Alerting Rules [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[raija]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guthrie" <guthrie at ntlworld.com>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] Alerting Rules [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]


[snipped much]

Nigel writes:
> Efficient disclosure is most important when your opponents are
> strangers or foreigners. Now, what is perfectly natural to you may
> seem bizarre to them. And vice versa.
>
> Currently, each local legislature has different disclosure
> regulations. Implicit in each, is an enormous set of local norms from
> which you disclose departures.
>
> Hence, effectively, these regulations define an unplayable mishmash of
> local systems. You must learn a different set of arbitrary regulations
> for each country in which you play bridge.

You have brought up on a few occasions this "each country in which you play 
bridge" argument.

The international top level players are well equipped to prepare themselves, 
the rest of the travelers is small in numbers and should not become the 
prime, IMO not even one the main considerations in what local alerting 
regulations are/should be. IMHO.

Raija