[blml] ACBL LC Detroit minutes

[Eric Landau]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 6:44 AM, Hans van Staveren wrote:

> Totally agree. Years ago I ruled misinformation when a player bid a
> singleton on a small doubleton. The pair was very clear that  
> singleton was
> their agreement. When I questioned the player that made the bid  
> about what
> his systemic correct bid on the hand would have been he became a bit
> puzzled. It turned out that the bid he made was the only forcing bid
> available. Neither player of the pair was aware that their agreements
> actually had this hole in them. So indeed in this case I ruled
> misinformation, since it was the responsibility of the pair making the
> agreements to make sure they covered the bases.

Was it?  Nothing in TFLB forbids a pair from entering a bridge event  
without having "covered the bases".  The notion that a pair is  
"responsible" for doing so comes from Bobby Wolff's discredited  
"convention disruption" theory, which has yet to be accepted or  
implemented anywhere (and hopefully won't be).

If we make duplicate bridge a game just for pairs who have complete  
and consistent bidding methods that they fully understand, what will  
we do for customers?


Eric Landau
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