[blml] ACBL LC Detroit minutes

[Herman De Wael]

Alain Gottcheiner wrote:

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> And there comes a very interesting part of the problem : are you (or 
> anybody) allowed to discard all claims of "I don't know" (you said 
> yourself that the player shall prove his statement to the contrary, and 
> that'll be very difficult), merely because your evaluation is that a 
> substantial proportion of such claims are vitiated ?
> My own experience is that people really don't know, very often so.
> 

Alain, as you well know, "I don't know", even when true, is MI in any 
case where a convention has been forgotten.

Ignorance is no excuse - so why should we accept "no agreement" at 
face value?

What is the difference between "I can't remember if we have discussed 
this" and "I can't remember what we decided"? The second is more 
honest, true, so why then should we rule more severely on the more 
honest one.
Isn't it better to ask the bidder for the reasons why he chose the 
particular bid and decide from there if there is partnership agreement 
or not?

> 
> Best regards
> 
>   Alain
> 

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Herman DE WAEL
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