[blml] 2007 Laws - RA's options.

[Eric Landau]

On Jan 4, 2008, at 11:00 AM, <gesta at tiscali.co.uk>  
<gesta at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> +=+ I undertook to post here the English Bridge Union
> decisions on options under the 2007 Laws. The proposed
> date of implementation is 1st August.

[snip]

>        A pair is allowed by prior agreemnt to vary its understandings
> during the auction or play consequent on an irregularity by either
> side.

I would be very concerned that a naive reader of this statement (i.e.  
one far less knowledgeable about the laws than anyone on BLML) will  
fail to appreciate the extremely substantial extent to which the  
desired ability to vary one's understandings consequent on an  
irregularity by one's own side is constrained by L72B2.  An  
(admittedly superfluous) "subject to" or "but see" or some such might  
be in order.


Eric Landau
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