[blml] concession

[Tim West-Meads]

> *From:* "Sven Pran" <svenpran at online.no>
> *To:* "'Bridge Laws Mailing List'" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
> *Date:* Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:09:34 +0100
> 
> > On Behalf Of Tim West-Meads
> .................
> > Explicit claims are a different matter.  The WBF minute never 
> > applied to
> > explicit claims (even those where the claim was for a specific 
> > number of
> > tricks THEREBY conceding the remainder).
> 
> You should know better than producing false statements like that.
> 
> Here is the text of that minute; it simply states that neither any
> concession nor any claim has been made when partner to a defender 
> making a concession immediately objects. 

That is untrue.

> There is nothing in that
> minute to specify that it matters whether the concession was made
> one way or the other. 

I can't believe this.  You provide the full text of the minute:

> 
"It was agreed that when a *concession is made by a defender of a 
number of tricks, THEREBY claiming the complement* of the remaining
tricks, .."

"I get two tricks and you get the last three" is not a case of a
concession THEREBY claiming.  It is explicitly both a claim AND a
concession.

"OK, I get my two hearts" is an explicit claim and, if more than two
tricks remain, it is a "claim THEREBY conceding the remainder.

Will Sven, Ton, and Grattan please read:

Main Entry: there·by  
Pronunciation: \ther-'bi, 'ther-?\ 
Function: adverb 
Date: before 12th century 
1 : by that : by that means <thereby lost her chance to win> 

(Merriam Webster)
The structure of the sentence does not support the alternative meaning.

Tim