[blml] 27B1(a) enquiry. [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Grattan Endicott replies:

>+=+ Readers may be interested in my reply, expressing personal
>opinions, to the following enquiry.
>                                    ~ Grattan ~   +=+
>====================================
>
>(Question put:)
>Has anything changed, deliberately or accidentally, in the 27B1(a)
>situation - natural bid replaced with natural bid - from the old
>1997 law?
>
>2S opening. 1NT 'undercall' - didn't see the opening bid. Was
>trying to open a 14-16 1NT.
>
>A 2NT overcall would normally show 17-20 for the pair concerned.
>The normal action would be to pass with 14-16, after which the
>contract would be quietly played out in 2S which would make (i.e.
>neither of the other players would have bid either).
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>(Grattan replies  +=+)
>The player decides to overcall 2NT anyway. I think we can quickly
>agree that it is AI that he has only 14-16 HCP(?).
>
>+=+ Yes+=+

Richard Hills asks:

Yes and No?  In my impersonal non-opinion?

What if a 1NT overcall of 1S is also 17-20 HCP, so the undercaller
might have merely mistaken the number of spades bid by RHO?  What
is the mandatory AI then?

Is the undercaller required to volunteer her reason for the
undercall to the table and the Director?  Or merely to the TD?

Or is the undercaller permitted to keep schtum, causing the Law
27B1 "Director's opinion" to be formed on externalities, not on
the undercaller's intent?

What's the problem?


Best wishes

Richard James Hills
Graduates and Developmental Training Section
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Telephone: 02 6223 9067
Email: richard.hills at immi.gov.au

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