[blml] self-serving ? Was : a psyche classification

[David Burn]

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Subject: Re: [blml] self-serving ? Was : a psyche classification

[Paul Lamford]
Whatever Nigel Guthrie says. If you bid 3S, or presumably 4H because 
of the double fit, you have made the normal bid when partner has a 
normal 2S bid, whatever you think that would show, presumably 8-10
with 5 spades and 3 hearts.

[nigel]
What is Paul getting at? I agree with the L&EC's classification of the 
pass as confirming a red psych and wrote so before David Burn 
commented or Paul Lamford changed his mind :)

I disagree that this proves that East-West are cheats. I am not 
surprised that I am the only BLMLer to object to that slur.

[DALB]

My fault for having been away for so long. It is of course parliamentary
language to refer to a player who doesn't support spades with four of them
as a "fielder" rather than a cheat, and naturally one would not dream of
actually suggesting that a player who doesn't support spades with four of
them has done anything other than made the correct technical bid, or
perpetrated a tactical masterpiece, or deserved anything other than
immediate promotion to the rank of Premier Grand Master and bar.

But those who were kind enough to welcome me back to this forum in the hope
that I would continue to excoriate the ungodly will know that when I use the
word "cheating" I mean "doing something that a cheat would have done". But
well it was said by the bard:

Nothing is more ungentlemanly than
Exaggeration, causing needless pain.
It's worse than spitting, and it stamps a man,
Quite properly, with other men's disdain.
Weigh human actions carefully. Explain
The worst of them with charity. Mayhap
There were two sides to that affair of Paine,
And Judas was a tolerable chap.

David Burn
London, England