[blml] The new L27C2

[Wayne Burrows]

On 11/02/2008, Stefanie Rohan <daisy_duck at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> Wayne Burrows:
>
> > The new law seems pretty simple to me.
> >
> > My paraphrase is if you gain additional information from your
> > insufficient bid then the correct is not allowed without penalty.
> >
> > To me this makes perfect sense.  I wish more laws were like this.
>
> Yes, it is easy enough to understand what it says. It is putting it into
> practice that will be a nightmare.
>
> One of the problems, of course, is that directors are not required to be
> expert players, and, as Jesper mentioned, will not in any case be experts in
> the system the OS are playing, so will not know (if at all)  without a lot
> of questioning (which had really better be away from the table or the UI
> will be impossible to deal with) whether a substitute bid contains less
> information. And if neither the offender nor the director are experts...
> well, if you asked half the people in my local club whether a bid contained
> more or less information than another bid, you would be met with a blank
> look. That brings up an interesting question -- will weak players get more
> leeway since they are not really aware of the information contained in ANY
> bid?
>
> I expect that this Law will prove a windfall to experienced players who are
> also Laws-savvy. They will be able to work out (certainly after the fact!)
> some extra information contained in the insufficient bid. But the AC will
> rule director's error, so no one loses, everyone is happy, WTP?
>
> This is not to say that I believe, in theory, that this law is bad. I have
> not yet formed an opinion one way or another, but am leaning slightly in
> favour. Still, I shudder to think of how it will be implemented.
>

You just need to ask of the proposed replacement bid.  Is there any
hand that you would make this bid on that you would not have made the
insufficient bid?  If the answer is yes then you cannot make this
replacement bid without penalties.


If this question is asked it is not director's error if the opponents
give an incorrect answer.

Wayne