[blml] ACBL LC Detroit minutes

[Eric Landau]

On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Alain Gottcheiner wrote:

Eric Landau a écrit :

>> 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".
>
> Automatic penalty for mispulling your bidding card ? A whole new idea.

More like an automatic penalty for having the temerity to manifest  
the belief that the ACBL's "official bidding system" might have such  
obviously nonsensical aspects that one might expect even an unknown  
partner to be aware of them.


Eric Landau
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