[blml] The new L27C2

[Wayne Burrows]

On 14/02/2008, Steve Willner <swillner at nhcc.net> wrote:
> > From: Tony Musgrove <ardelm at optusnet.com.au>
> > Had another one today.  I must say to see their looks of incredulity
> > as I allow an insufficient reply to Blackwood to be corrected without
> > penalty is worth the price of admission.
>
> It's hard for me to imagine what agreements make such a correction possible.
>
> > 1D (1C)  I didn't see her opening bid.  I know from Wayne's
> > analysis that there are doubles that are too strong to be incorporated
> > in 1C, but I am a free spirit.
>
> This seems backwards to me.  The problem is that, for most people, a 2C
> overcall can be made on a hand too weak to open.  That is, the message
> "I have opening strength" is not incorporated in the 2C correction.  If
> the pair can convince you that their two-level overcalls are always
> sound, this won't be a problem, but it will for most.
>
> The exclusion of hands "too strong to overcall" is no problem.  That
> information comes from the legal 2C bid, not the illegal 1C.
>

Not if the replacement is double.  The message "I have less than 20
hcp" is not incorporated in the meaning of a takeout double.

Wayne