[blml] 2007 Laws - RA's options.

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Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Fusselman" <jfusselman at gmail.com>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 7:01 PM
Subject: [blml] 2007 Laws - RA's options.


> [Grattan]
> 
>       40B3 - A pair is not allowed to vary its understandings
> during the auction or playconsequent on a question asked by
> either side.  A pair is allowed to vary its understandings during the
> auction or play by prior agreement consequent on a response by
> opponents to a question asked by this pair, but not consequent on
> a response by this pair to a question by opponents.
>      A pair is allowed by prior agreemnt to vary its understandings
> during the auction or play consequent on an irregularity by either
> side.
> 
> [Jerry]
> 
> I wonder what "vary its understandings" means here.  It seems quite
> different from what Richard Hills understood it to mean.  Suppose that
> my partnership understanding is that my double of 1C is takeout if 1C
> was natural and it shows the majors if 1C was artificial.  1C is
> alerted so I ask to find out if it is artificial or not.  Is this a
> case of varying our understandings?  I am sure Richard would say it is
> not, because we have the rock-solid understanding that I mentioned in
> sentence two.
> 
+=+ Since the variations are to be disclosed as a matter of partnership 
understanding, probably on the system card  - such is the effect of 'by 
prior agreement' - the RA can in any case control the agreements under 
Law 40B1 and 40B2.  As I have said previously 40B3 is in truth a 'belt 
and braces' law bringing together and stressing matters the RA is 
empowered to handle under other sections of Law 40. 
                                                  ~ Grattan ~  +=+