[blml] Sykes and Mist Beads [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Wayne Burrows]

On 01/02/2008, richard.hills at immi.gov.au <richard.hills at immi.gov.au> wrote:
> Wayne Burrows:
>
> >The changes in the new law seem to me to have moved
> >towards the former illegal practices of the many
> >sponsoring organizations and national authorities.
>
> Richard Hills:
>
> And popular practices of players which were formerly
> illegal have been legalised too.  For example, see
> the 2007 Laws 20F3 and 65B3.
>
> When General Eisenhower was President of Columbia
> University, a subordinate asked him what punishment
> should be applied to the vast numbers of students
> who illegally walked diagonally over the grass
> quadrangle to reach their classes.  Eisenhower
> replied, "Install a new path."
>
> If vast numbers of players and vast numbers of bridge
> bureaucrats were happily performing popular practices
> of dubious legality under the 1997 Laws, what is
> wrong with installing a new path in the 2007 Laws?
>
> Wayne Burrows:
>
> >'Special Partnership Understandings' require that
> >the Regulating Authority believes that the
> >understanding "may not be readily understood and
> >anticipated".  This seems a severe restriction to
> >me e.g. I can't believe that anyone would believe
> >that a 8-10 1NT could not be readily understood
> >.....
> >Even a Fert 0-8 any distribution seems like it
> >would be easily understood by the masses.
>
> Richard Hills:
>
> And anticipated???
>

You seem to have snipped this:

"Of course all of these bids will be anticipated when the players are
simply told in advance that they are in use."

Wayne