[blml] Alerting Rules [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Richard Hills memory laned:

>>Just such a strong opening lead tendency was
>>discussed by Edgar Kaplan in one of his Bridge World
>>editorials, in response to a reader's letter.  He
>>advised that reader that any advantage she gained in
>>the defence by knowing her partner's defensive
>>tendencies was balanced by the Law 75 requirement to
>>disclose those defensive tendencies to declarer.

Jerry Fusselman asked:

>Did Edgar Kaplan also suggest assigning a procedural
>penalty here?

Richard Hills answers:

The point of the editorial was the letter writer's
sincere belief that only the explicit agreements her
partnership had for their defensive methods needed to
be disclosed.  Edgar Kaplan informed her that her
partnership's _implicit_ defensive agreements also
needed to be disclosed.

An official policy of the Directors at the Aussie
Summer Festival of Bridge is that procedural penalties
are not applied to the (vast majority of) players who
_unintentionally_ infract Law.  Ergo, at the Summer
Festival ignorance of the Law is a partial excuse; it
does not affect the adjusted score, but it does affect
whether or not a subsequent procedural penalty is
applied.

But if with my autodidactic knowledge of the Lawbook I
should choose to infract a "could have known" Law at
the forthcoming Summer Festival, then I have no doubt
that I would deserve and also receive a substantial
procedural penalty.


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
Level 6 Aqua Training Suite, DIAC
02 6225 6776

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