[blml] ACBL LC Detroit minutes

[Eric Landau]

On Apr 7, 2008, at 12:14 AM, David Burn wrote:

> [RH]
>
> My system (notes emailed on request) contains some deliberate  
> holes, with
> some calls explicitly agreed as non-systemic.
>
> For example, if the auction starts:
>
> Me        Pard
> 1NT       2C
> 2H
>
> a rebid of 2S by pard is non-systemic.
>
> [DALB]
>
> I would like to put in a request for these system notes. Not that I  
> want to
> play the system, but as long-time coach to British teams I have amused
> myself by compiling a private list of the Worst Methods in the  
> World. That
> 2S has *no* systemic meaning in the (fairly common) auction above  
> strikes me
> as so staggeringly bad as to be wholly outside the realms not only  
> of what I
> have experienced, but of what I could imagine.

The original SAYC, developed by a special committee of the ACBL,  
incorporated (someone may have woken up and changed it since) this  
travesty:  1NT-P-2S *required* opener to bid 3C, which opener either  
passed or corrected to 3D, to play.  In tournament events which were  
restricted to SAYC only, the auction 1NT-P-2S-P-2NT was illegal and  
carried an automatic penalty.  And, yes, they did call it "bridge".


Eric Landau
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