[blml] A Psyche Classification

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 12:27 24/09/2007 +0100, David Burn wrote:


>Nobody "deemed an agreement to exist". East-West pretended in committee to
>be playing fit non-jumps in order to convince the appeals committee that
>they weren't actually cheating. Your version of events seems to be that they
>actually were playing fit non-jumps; they just forgot to alert. But no one
>would actually bid 2S on the East hand whatever the methods; as Alain
>correctly said, East was psyching.


IMOBO, East was psyching a FNJ. Isn't a FNJ the default meaning in such a 
case ?
(remember : PH)

>Of course it isn't. East's bid showed spades - long spades, not necessarily
>high spades.

Unless, of course, one remembers that he was a PH, and that he couldn't 
hold 6 spades and heart shortness (not even 5 in some systems).


What I'm emphatatically criticizing isn't the AC's decision, it's the way 
they came to it.
We've got no evidence that they took the above into account.
We've got no evidence that they considered "pass" to be a suggestion to go 
higher, which is 100% standard in a forcing situation. They ruled that 
West's "negative" pass was fielding a psyche ; however, they were wrong in 
their premise.


Best regards

    Alain