[blml] A new fun game

[Alain Gottcheiner]

Tony Musgrove a écrit :
> Finally the ruling I was dreading:
>
>                West         North          East          South
>                1C            pass             1H           dbl
> 	    pass         2D                1NT
>
> Under the old rules, I can allow East to bid to 2NT without penalty,
> but now, she wanted to show 6-10 and I suppose 2NT might show
> 10-11 say.  Clearly not "incorporated" under the new Act. So I
> should allow no change which allows partner to stay in the bidding.
>
> However, I tell them all about incorporates etc.  and then decide to
> allow a change to 2NT without penalty to see what happens.  All
> pass so no problem perhaps?   I still think TPTB want us to allow
> all the previously allowed changes and then some.  If I had applied the
> strict meaning of the Law, the 2NT correction would have barred
> partner, a result earnestly to be hoped for by the 6-10 holder.
>   
There is no more problem with such situations than there was using old 
rules - only the potentially problematic cases aren't the same.

TNFLB tells us to say that partner will be barred. Then, if this happens 
to be "hoped for", we apply L23 to correct the score.
Once upon a time, this potentially applied to every "new denomination", 
now it potentially applies to every case of "non-incorporation". WTH ?

BTW, Tony, how do you manage to write messages that arrive at 23:33 and 
we're able to read at 11:25 ? Yes, Australia, I know, but in principle 
local time of *arrival* is what's mentioned on the listing


Best regards

    Alain