[blml] ACBL LC Detroit minutes

[John (MadDog) Probst]

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From: "Eric Landau" <ehaa at starpower.net>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] ACBL LC Detroit minutes


>> holes and the holes.
>
> So by this logic, no partnership will ever be capable of giving
> proper full disclosure in all circumstances, and any time you claim
> no agreement it becomes de facto illegal to work out partner's
> intention correctly.  The objective of full disclosure is to provide
> opponents with as much knowledge of your agreements as partner has.
> That means fully and completely describing what you do know -- "the
> area around the holes" -- thus giving partner and opponents the same
> chance to work out the intended meaning of the call, as in the
> perfectly ordinary, and entirely legal, scenario offered by Alain
> earlier.
>
> Isn't this the same tired old argument that you should disclose your
> guess as to partner's thought processes instead of the truth about
> your actual agreements?
>

With the one partner I've actually managed to keep over the last 20 years, 
we have a definitive list of our agreements. All things which have occurred, 
or have been discussed have been written down. let's say it's about 100 
pages long; 5K lines of agreed sequences, continuations and meta-agreements. 
About once every 20 boards I am compelled to add to it :) Indeed I had to 
add something about the 4th bid in a specific non-contested acution 
recently, and responding 4N to a strong 1C had never been discussed or 
written down either when it came up (It had to be trad. bkwd, btw). I claim 
no special credit for our system which by any standard of measurement is 
well documented and complete. I would not expect a TD to rule CPU or 
implicit agreement, even though we are capable of guessing (and it is a 
guess) what partner is up to when he departs from agreement, simply by 
knowledge of the calls NOT made. I am seriously perturbed at the attitude of 
the "if it ain't what's promised it's illegal" school. cheers John

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