[blml] Executive Summary of changes between 1997 Laws and 2007Laws - Part Two

[David Burn]

[TK]

No we have not, which is a pity looking at the problems we have created with
this wonderful L27C1. 

[DALB]

A thought has struck me. Suppose my RHO opens 3D and I - thinking for the
moment that he opened 2D - overcall 3C. In my methods, a 4C overcall of 3D
shows clubs and a major, the convention known as "non-leaping Michaels". My
hand is such that I would, having seen the opening bid correctly, risk 5C
given that I can't bid four.

Law 27C1 says:

If the insufficient bid is replaced by a bid at the lowest legal level or
double or pass that incorporates the information contained in the
insufficient bid, the auction and play continues with the information
arising from the withdrawn bid authorized for both sides.

Now: a 3C overcall shows a club suit. A 4C overcall that shows clubs and
spades "incorporates" the information that I have clubs (at least, according
to any definition of the word "incorporate" with which I am familiar), but
presumably I am not allowed to bid 4C in the given circumstances to show
only clubs (even though L27C1 actually says that I am).

If I bid 5C, partner is barred. Is this what is intended?

David Burn
London, England